Road from Constantinople to east in Byzantine times
Crosses
Çark Deresi (Antiquity: Sangarius)
Locale
Close to Adapazarı, Turkey
Characteristics
Design
Arch bridge Cutwaters on both sides
Material
Limestone blocks
Total length
429 m
Width
9.85 m
Height
10 m
Longest span
24.5 m
No. of spans
7 main arches + 5 floodways
Piers in water
6
History
Construction end
562 AD
Location
The Sangarius Bridge or Bridge of Justinian (Turkish: Justinianos Köprüsü or Beşköprü) is a late Roman bridge over the river Sakarya (Latin: Sangarius, Greek Σαγγάριος) in Anatolia, in modern-day Turkey. It was built by the East Roman Emperor Justinian I (527-565 AD) to improve communications between the capital Constantinople and the eastern provinces of his empire. With a remarkable length of 430 m, the bridge was mentioned by several contemporary writers, and has been associated with a supposed project, first proposed by Pliny the Younger to Emperor Trajan,[1] to construct a navigable canal that would bypass the Bosporus.[2]
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that it is possible that the work postdates the building of the bridge over the Sangarius in the late 550s. Historians consider Buildings to be an incomplete...
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