List of bridges in Turkey
Historical and architectural interest bridges
Major road bridges
This table presents a non-exhaustive list of the road and railway bridges with spans greater than 100 metres (328 ft) or total lengths longer than 5,000 metres (16,404 ft).
List of bridges by length
The top ten longest bridges in Turkey by total span.
Name | Length | Completed | Traffic | Province(s) | |
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m | ft | ||||
Çanakkale 1915 Bridge Otoyol 6 Current longest bridge of any type in Turkey |
4,608 | 15,118 | 2022 | Motorway | Çanakkale |
Osman Gazi Bridge Otoyol 5 |
2,682 | 8,799 | 2010 | Motorway | Kocaeli/Yalova |
Bornova Viaduct Otoyol 30 Longest bridge not crossing a body of water in Turkey |
2,328 | 7,638 | 2007 | Motorway | Izmir |
Mt. Bolu Viaduct No. 1 Otoyol 4 |
2,272 | 7,454 | 2006 | Motorway | Bolu |
Sakarya Viaduct Ankara-Istanbul high-speed railway Longest railway bridge and longest bridge crossing a river in Turkey |
2,233 | 7,326 | 2008 | High-speed rail | Ankara |
Yavuz Sultan Selim Bridge Otoyol 7 |
2,164 | 7,100 | 2016 | Motorway | Istanbul |
Karasu Viaduct Otoyol 3 |
2,160 | 7,090 | 1990 | Motorway | Istanbul |
Battalgazi Bridge Fevzipaşa-Kuratalan railway |
2,030 | 6,660 | 1986 | Railway | Malatya/Elazığ |
Çatalan Bridge Göl Kenarı Road Longest road bridge not carrying a motorway in Turkey |
1,575 | 5,167 | 1998 | Roadway | Adana |
Bosphorus Bridge Otoyol 1 |
1,560 | 5,120 | 1973 | Motorway | Istanbul |
Fatih Sultan Mehmet Bridge Otoyol 2 |
1,510 | 4,950 | 1988 | Motorway | Istanbul |
See also
- Transport in Turkey
- Rail transport in Turkey
- General Directorate of Highways (Turkey)
- List of highways in Turkey
- List of Roman bridges
- List of aqueducts in the Roman Empire
- Geography of Turkey
- List of rivers of Turkey
- List of bridges in Ankara
- Türkiye'deki tarihi köprüler (in Turkish) - Historic bridges in Turkey
Notes and references
- Notes
- ^ Since completion in 2022, the 1915 Çanakkale Bridge has the longest span in the world, surpassing the Akashi Kaikyō Bridge in Japan who held the record since 1998.
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- ^ "Tarihi Malabadi (Batman Su) Köprüsü'ndeYürütülen Restorasyon-Konservasyon Çalışmaları" [Restoration - Conservation Studies Carried Out on the Historical Malabadi (Batman Su) Bridge] (PDF).
- ^ "Tarihi Köprülerin Restorasyonları Kapsamında Yürütülen Yapısal Analiz Çalışmaları ve Sonuçları" [Structural Analysis Studies Carried Out Within the Scope of Restorations of Historical Bridges and Their Results] (PDF).
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- ^ "Cendere Bridge".
- ^ "Penkalas Bridge".
- ^ "Bridge near Limyra".
- ^ "Valens Aqueduct".
- ^ "Aesepus Bridge".
- ^ "Sangarius Bridge".
- ^ "Karamagara Bridge".
- ^ "Adana Bridge".
- ^ "Hasankeyf Bridge".
- ^ "Malabadi Bridge".
- ^ "Seljuk Eurymedon Bridge".
- ^ "Akköprü".
- ^ "Akhurian River Bridge".
- ^ "Long Bridge".
- ^ "Edirne Bridge".
- ^ "Sultan Süleyman Bridge".
- ^ "Irgandı Bridge".
- ^ "Hacikiri Bridge".
- ^ "Atatürk Bridge".
- ^ "Galata Bridge".
- ^ "Çanakkale 1915 Bridge".
- ^ "Osman Gazi Bridge".
- ^ "Yavuz Sultan Selim Bridge".
- ^ "Fatih Sultan Mehmet Bridge".
- ^ "Bosporus Bridge".
- ^ "Nissibi Euphrates Bridge".
- ^ "Kömürhan Bridge".
- ^ "Ağın Bridge".
- ^ "Golden Horn Metro Bridge".
- ^ "Çayırhan Bridge".
- ^ "Gülburnu Viaduct".
- ^ "Golden Horn Bridge".
- ^ "Golden Horn Bridge".
- ^ "Kömürhan Highway Bridge".
- ^ "Imrahor Viaduct".
- ^ "Nurdağı Viaduct".
- ^ "Kömürhan Arch Bridge".
- ^ "Manavgat Antalya Bridge".
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Further reading
- Apaydin, Nurdan M.; Bas, Selcuk (September 10–11, 2018). Long-Span Orthotropic Steel Deck Bridges of Turkey. IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering - 9th International Symposium on Steel Bridges. Vol. 419. doi:10.1088/1757-899X/419/1/012023.
- Tekİn, Sabri (May 2018). "Monitoring System of Suspension Bridges in Turkey" (PDF). General Directorate of Highways (Turkey) (in Turkish). Senskin Workshop, İstanbul.
- Chen, Wai-Fah; Duan, Lian (2014). "Bridge Engineering in Turkey". In CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group (ed.). Handbook of International Bridge Engineering. CRC Press. pp. 823–864. ISBN 978-1-4398-1029-3.
- Prade, Marcel (1990). "La Turquie". Les Grands Ponts du Monde: Ponts Remarquables Hors d'Europe [The Great Bridges of the World: Remarkable Bridges Outside Europe]. Art et patrimoine (in French). Poitiers: Brissaud. pp. 206–214. ISBN 2-902170-68-8.
External links
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- "Karayolu" [Highway] (PDF). Uab.gov.tr (in Turkish). Ulaşan ve Erişen Türkiye 2018.
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- "Brücken in der Türkei" [Bridges in Turkey]. Brueckenweb.de (in German).
- Denenberg, David. "Suspension Bridges of Turkey". Bridgemeister.com.
- Sakowski, Eric. "Category: Bridges in Turkey". Highestbridges.com.