The Ağın Bridge, Ağın (Karamağara) Bridge, ( or ''Ağın Karamağara Köprüsü'') is a

cable-stayed bridge A cable-stayed bridge has one or more ''towers'' (or ''pylons''), from which wire rope, cables support the bridge deck. A distinctive feature are the cables or wikt:stay#Etymology 3, stays, which run directly from the tower to the deck, norm ...

spanning Lake Keban in

Elazığ Province Elazığ () is a city in the Eastern Anatolia Region, Eastern Anatolia region of Turkey, and the administrative centre of Elazığ Province and Elazığ District. Founded in and around the former city of Harput, it is located in the uppermost Euph ...

, Turkey. It was opened to traffic in 2015. The construction of the bridge began in 2001. Due to alterations to the project, construction was delayed, but work resumed on January 10, 2012, and the opening took place on October 26, 2015. The bridge was built by the Mega Yapi company and the consultant was BOTEK Bosphorus Technical Consulting Corporation. The cable-stayed bridge is long and wide with a main span of , and a clearance of above the water level. The bridge carries one lane of traffic in each direction. At its opening, the Ağın Bridge became Turkey's fourth longest one after the Bosphorus Bridge, , and

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, , in

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and the Nissibi Euphrates Bridge, , in

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. The budgeted cost of the construction was given as 33.325 million.

Background

In the past, access to the town of

Ağın Ağın is a town of Elazığ Province of Turkey. It is the seat of Ağın District.İlçe Beled ...

from the city of Elazığ was provided by the Karamağara Bridge, an

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arch bridge An arch bridge is a bridge with abutments at each end shaped as a curved arch. Arch bridges work by transferring the weight of the bridge and its structural load, loads partially into a horizontal thrust restrained by the abutments at either si ...

situated about from the town. The historic bridge was dismantled, and its

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masonry was moved to the Elazığ Museum before the Keban Dam was completed and its reservoir created in 1974. For a period of about 40 years following the establishment of the reservoir, the town was disconnected from the provincial center, and was accessible only by ferry boats across the lake. The newly built bridge is also named the "Ağın (Karamağara) Bridge" in remembrance of the previous Roman bridge which no longer exists.

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