{"id":21697,"date":"2013-08-06T09:00:57","date_gmt":"2013-08-06T08:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=21697"},"modified":"2026-03-21T18:49:41","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T18:49:41","slug":"iron-gates-the-n","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/iron-gates-the-n\/","title":{"rendered":"Iron Gate(s), The"},"content":{"rendered":"

The<\/b> Iron Gate(s)<\/b> is the name given to a gorge on the River Danube<\/a> that forms part of the boundary between Serbia and Romania. A century ago, Nicolae Densusianu<\/a> proposed The Iron Gate as\u00a0the location for the Pillars of Heracles, on the Danube in ancient Dacia, modern Romania.<\/p>\n

A recent book [1742<\/a>]<\/sup> by Antonije Shkokljev & Slave Nikolovski\u2013Katin has related an ancient version of the ‘Labours of Hercules’ based in the Balkan-Danube region.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Iron<\/a>Recently, Ranko Jakovljevic<\/a> expressed the view that the Iron Gate section of the Danube in Serbia was the location of Atlantis.<\/p>\n

A paper presented to the 2008 Atlantis Conference <\/a>by Ticleanu, Constantin & Nicolescu [750<\/a>.375]<\/sup> has the \u2018Pillars of Heracles\u2019 located at the Iron Gate but placed Atlantis a little further west on what is now the Pannonian Plain<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In 2020 Veljko Milkovic<\/a>\u00a0also placed the ‘Pillars’ at the Iron Gates on the Danube and Atlantis in the Pannonian Basin(c)(d)<\/sup> in his book Panonska Atlantida<\/em> [1932<\/a>]<\/sup>.<\/p>\n

This minority view of Atlantis located in Eastern European is seen by a few commentators to be vindicated by the literate Vinca culture(b)<\/sup> of the Danubian region, although the Schoppes<\/a> see the Vinca people as refugees from their original home in the Black Sea<\/a> region(a)<\/sup>.<\/p>\n

For me, all those theories conflict with Plato\u2019s unambiguous statement that the invading Atlanteans came from the west <\/i><\/b>(Tim.25b & Crit.114c). In fact, what Plato actually said was that the invasion came from the Atlantic<\/a> Sea<\/em><\/strong> (pelagos). Although there is some disagreement about the location of this Atlantic Sea, all<\/em><\/strong> candidates proposed so far are west of both Athens and Egypt.<\/p>\n

(a)<\/sup> <\/b>https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20190819053842\/https:\/\/www.black-sea-atlantis.com\/schoppe.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n

(b)<\/sup> https:\/\/www.ancient-origins.net\/ancient-places-europe\/danube-valley-civilisation-script-oldest-writing-world-001343<\/a><\/p>\n

(c)<\/sup> Look for it in the WRONG place! Veljko claims that ATLANTIS is at the bottom of the DANUBE, and he has EVIDENCE (www-magazin-novosti-rs.translate.goog)<\/a>\u00a0 (English)<\/p>\n

(d)<\/sup> Pannonian Atlantis by Veljko Milkovi? | VEMIRC<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Iron Gate(s) is the name given to a gorge on the River Danube that forms part of the boundary between Serbia and Romania. A century ago, Nicolae Densusianu proposed The Iron Gate as\u00a0the location for the Pillars of Heracles, on the Danube in ancient Dacia, modern Romania. A recent book [1742] by Antonije Shkokljev […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1192,6499,27,2366,2369,1745,2368,4766,48,2367,2478,1744,88,5862,7262,2409],"class_list":["post-21697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-2008-atlantis-conference","tag-antonije-shkokljev","tag-black-sea","tag-danube","tag-iron-gates","tag-nicolae-densusianu","tag-pannonian-plain","tag-pelagos","tag-pillars-of-heracles","tag-ranko-jakovljevic","tag-romania","tag-schoppes","tag-serbia","tag-ticleanu-constantin-nicolescu","tag-veljko-milkovic","tag-vinca-culture"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21697"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66902,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21697\/revisions\/66902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}