The Red Bridge ( hy, Կարմիր կամուրջ, ''Karmir kamurj''; also known as the Old Bridge of Hrazdan; and also known as Bridge of Khoja Plav, , ''Khoja Plavi kamurj'') is a ruined 17th-century bridge on the

Hrazdan River The Hrazdan ( hy, Հրազդան գետ, ) is a major river and the second largest in Armenia. It originates at the northwest extremity of Lake Sevan and flows south through the Kotayk Province and Armenia's capital, Yerevan; the lake in turn is f ...

, in

Yerevan Yerevan ( , , hy, Երևան , sometimes spelled Erevan) is the capital and largest city of Armenia and one of the world's oldest continuously inhabited cities. Situated along the Hrazdan River, Yerevan is the administrative, cultural, and i ...

, Armenia. It was called ‘red’ because as it is built of red

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. The bridge was also called "Khoja-plav bridge" for Khoja-plav, a wealthy man from

Kanaker Kanaker ( hy, Քանաքեռ; also Romanized as K’anak’err, Kenaker, Kanaker, and Qanaqer) was a town in Armenia to the north-east of the capital Yerevan. With the urban development, the village was gradually absorbed by the capital Yerevan t ...

who financed its reconstructruction. The total length of the bridge was 80 meters and its height was 11 meters. It had 4 arches. Two were in the middle and were squiggly, the other two arches were on the banks of the Hrazdan River. V. M. Harutyunyan, Caravanserais and bridges of the Medieval Armenia ''(Միջնադարյան Հայաստանի քարավանատներն ու կամուրջները)'', pp. 12 Before the 1679 earthquake there was a bridge in the same place but it was ruined by the earthquake. It provided economic connections between the

Yerevan Fortress Erivan Fortress ( hy, Երևանի բերդը; ''Yerevani berdë''; fa, قلعه ایروان, ''Ghaleh-ye Iravân''; russian: Эриванская крепость ''E'rivanskaya krepost' '') was a 16th-century fortress in Yerevan. History ...

(in place of the

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) and the Ararat Plain.

Gallery

;Historic pictures of the bridge File:Erivan1796.jpg File:August von Haxthausen. Transcaucasia. Bridge and fortress at Erivan.jpg File:Red bridge, Yerevan.jpg File:Red Bridge of Yerevan.png File:Կարմիր կամուրջ.jpg ;Remnants of the bridge File:Խոջա Փլավի 01.JPG File:Կարմիր կամուրջ 2.JPG File:Կարմիր կամուրջ 3.JPG

References

* Tadevos Hakobyan
ԵՐԵՎԱՆԻ ՊԱՏՄՈՒԹՅՈՒՆԸ (1500–1800 ԹԹ.) ''(History of Yerevan (1500-1800)''
1971, Publishing of YSU, p. 373 {{Yerevan landmarks Bridges in Yerevan 1679 establishments in Iran Road bridges in Armenia