Koban

Koban lies in a mountain basin of the North Caucasus, at the entrance to a gorge south of the Terek plain. The village has given its name to the Koban culture of the Late Bronze and Early Iron Ages, known from burial grounds and finely worked objects across the Caucasus. Finds of pottery at Upper Koban also reveal an Alan settlement of the second half of the first millennium. A later defensive tower stood at the entrance to the gorge, overlooking the old inhabited slopes.