Malabadi Bridge (1955)

Malabadi Bridge Malabadi Köprüsü
Coordinates	39°09′13″N 41°12′13″E / 39.15361°N 41.20361°E / 39.15361; 41.20361Coordinates: 39°09′13″N 41°12′13″E / 39.15361°N 41.20361°E / 39.15361; 41.20361
Carries	2 lanes of the old D.360 road.
Crosses	Batman river
Characteristics
Longest span	87.6 m (287 ft)
History
Designer	Orhan Büyükalp
Construction start	December 1954
Opened	March 1955
Replaces	Malabadi Bridge
Malabadi Bridge Location of the bridge.

The Malabadi Bridge (Turkish: Malabadi Köprüsü) is an 87.6 m (287 ft) long, two lane, deck-arch bridge that crosses the Batman river near Çatakköprü, Diyarbakır Province. The bridge carries the old D.360 state road, as the current highway crosses a newer bridge just south of the two older bridges.

Construction of the bridge started in December 1954 and was completed in March 1955, just three and a half months later. With the opening of the bridge, it replaced the historic pointed-arch bridge adjacent to it.^[1]

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