Uzunköprü Bridge
Edirne Province, Turkey
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Uzunköprü, meaning "Long Bridge," is a 15th-century Ottoman stone arch bridge spanning the River Ergene in Edirne Province, northwestern Turkey. Built between 1426/7 and 1443/4, the bridge originally stretched 1,392 metres across 174 arches, famously claimed to be the world's longest stone bridge. Constructed to enable troop crossings during seasonal floods and to replace deteriorating wooden predecessors, the structure featured decorative stone figures and motifs throughout. Successive earthquakes and floods gradually reduced its length and arch count, and a 1971 modernization widened it to 6.80 metres with steel and concrete overlay. Following the 2013 ban on heavy vehicles and an alternative concrete bridge's construction, the monument underwent major restoration beginning in 2021 to address stone cracks and excavate buried arches. Today recognized as a Group 1 Immovable Cultural Property Requiring Protection and a UNESCO tentative World Heritage Site, Uzunköprü remains a defining Ottoman engineering achievement.
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- Type
- bridge, arch bridge
- Materials
- stone
- Heritage
- Immovable Cultural Property Requiring Protection (Group 1), Tentative World Heritage Site
- Place
- Edirne Province, Turkey
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