Devil's Gate (Crimea)

{{coord|44|54|51|N|35|14|5|E|scale:20000|display=title}} [[File:KaraDag03.jpg|thumb|View from the Kara Dag]] The '''Devil's Gate''' ([[Crimean Tatar language|Crimean Tatar]]: ''şeytan qapu'') or '''Golden Gate''' (''Altın Qapı'') is an [[natural arch|arch-like cliff]] near the [[Kara Dag Mountain (Crimea)|Kara Dag Mountain]] in the [[Crimea]]. The cliff was supposed to have marked a gateway to [[hell]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://travel.kyiv.org/crimea/antique/index.phtml|title=Antique|website=travel.kyiv.org}}</ref> It is popular with tourists and [[carnelian]] hunters. [[Alexander Pushkin]] is thought to have been the first to depict the cliff, on the margins of his verse novel ''[[Eugene Onegin]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://feb-web.ru/feb/pushkin/serial/v75/v75-094-.htm|title=ФЭБ: Протоклитов. Рисунок Пушкина "Золотые ворота Карадага". — 1975 (текст)|website=feb-web.ru}}</ref>

== See also == * [[Sail Rock]]

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