Malabadi Bridge

Local nameMalabadi Köprüsü
LocationSilvan, Türkiye

The Malabadi Bridge is an arch bridge spanning the Batman River near the town of Silvan in southeastern Turkey. Construction began in the year AD 1146/47 during the Artuqid period, and appears to have been completed by about 1154. The bridge was commissioned by Husam al-Din Timurtash of Mardin, son of Ilghazi, and grandson of Artuk Bey.

According to the local 12th-century historian Ibn al-Azraq al-Farīqī, the contemporary bridge replaced one built in 668/69 that had collapsed in 1144. Inconsistencies between the two surviving manuscript copies of Ibn al-Azraq's account make it difficult to definitively identify the Malabadi bridge as the one he refers to as the Qaramān or Aqramān bridge.

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Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malabadi_Bridge

Address Batman-Silvan Yolu, 21640, Turkey

Coordinates 38°9'12.537" N 41°12'13.118" E

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