The Kömürhan Bridge, also known as the İsmet Paşa Bridge, is a box-girder bridge that carries the

Elazığ Elazığ () is a city in the 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 Euphrates valley. The plai ...

Malatya Malatya (; ; Syriac language, Syriac ܡܠܝܛܝܢܐ Malīṭīná; ; Ancient Greek: Μελιτηνή) is a city in the Eastern Anatolia region of Turkey and the capital of Malatya Province. The city has been a human settlement for thousands of y ...

highway over the

Euphrates River The Euphrates ( ; see below) is the longest and one of the most historically important rivers of West Asia. Together with the Tigris, it is one of the two defining rivers of Mesopotamia (). Originating in Turkey, the Euphrates flows through S ...

in eastern

Turkey Turkey, officially the Republic of Türkiye, is a country mainly located in Anatolia in West Asia, with a relatively small part called East Thrace in Southeast Europe. It borders the Black Sea to the north; Georgia (country), Georgia, Armen ...

. It was constructed using the balanced cantilever technique. The bridge was constructed to replace a 100 m long concrete arch bridge built by the Swedish company

Nydqvist & Holm AB NOHAB (Nydqvist & Holm AB) was a manufacturing company based in the city of Trollhättan, Sweden. History The company was founded by Antenor Nydqvist, Johan Magnus Lidström and Carl Olof Holm in 1847 as ''Trollhättans Mekaniska Verkstad'' as ...

, costs 110 million Turkish lira as the money of that time, and opened on 5 October 1932, which was flooded with the completion of the Karakaya Dam. The new bridge was built by the

STFA Group STFA Group () is a Turkish conglomerate, providing services in the construction, energy distribution, construction equipment and construction chemicals industries. STFA was founded in 1938 by contractors Sezai Türkeş and Feyzi Akkaya. STFA has b ...

between 23 February 1983 and 8 April 1986. Kömürhan Bridge is between Malatya Province and Elazığ Province. The tender, that is for building a new bridge that is 600 m length at same place, completed in 2013. It features in the " 50 works in 50 years" list of significant building projects in Turkey published by the Chamber of Civil Engineers in Turkey.

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Road bridges in Turkey Bridges over the Euphrates River Bridges completed in 1986 Buildings and structures in Elazığ Province Cantilever bridges Crossings of the Euphrates {{Turkey-bridge-struct-stub