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Uzunköprü (District Municipality, Turkey)

Flag of Uzunköprü - Image by Jens Pattke, 26 March 2013

Presentation of Uzunköprü
Flag of Uzunköprü
Municipalities
- Kurtbey
Professional boards
- Uzunköprü Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Uzunköprü Ticaret ve Sanayi Odası - UTSO)
- Uzunköprü Commodity Exchange (Uzunköprü Ticaret Borsası - UZTB)

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Presentation of Uzunköprü

The municipality of Uzunköprü (lit., Long Bridge; 54,312 inhabitants in 2014, 40,403 in the town proper; 12,130 ha) is located close to the border with Greece.

Ivan Sache, 13 March 2016

Flag of Uzunköprü

The flag of Uzunköprü (photo) is white with the municipality's emblem. "Belediyesi" means "Municipality".
The emblem of the municipality features the long bridge that gave the name of the town.

The Uzunköprü bridge has been submitted on 13 April 2015 for inscription on the UNESCO's World Heritage List (Daily Sabah, 24 April 2012), with the following description:

Uzunköprü (Long Bridge), located approximately 60 km south from the modern city center of Edirne, was built on one of the most challenging passages of Ergene River (in antiquity: Agrianes/Erginus or Riga) in the Balkans. This location is very important as it was a transition point between the Balkans and Anatolia. The bridge constructed by the Architect Muslihiddin between 1427 and 1443 during the reign of the sixth Ottoman Padishah Sultan Murad II along with the epitaph on the bridge is featured to be the longest stone bridge on earth surviving to date with 1392 m length, 174 arches and 6.10 m width. The year of 1443, when the construction was completed, correspond to the pre-classic period of the Ottoman Empire architecture. In this period the Empire built universally well-known superior structures. The architect of the bridge is Muslihiddin, was the chief state architect of the period. Architect Muslihiddin is one of the most important of all medieval architects and at the same time he was the leading architect of the classical period of Ottoman architecture with the bridges, social and religious complexes and mosques he built.
Although there exist many timber bridges in this region to provide passage through River Ergene, Sultan Murad II asked for the construction of a large stone bridge due to the fact that such timber bridges were all destroyed after a while and that they failed to provide passage under the seasonal conditions of all type. Uzunköprü is a masterpiece of this early period of Ottoman architecture, 1392 m. long masonry structure. The reason why the bridge is constructed at such a length is the fact that it was designed to provide passageway for the armies through the vast marshy land of the River Ergene and its tributaries while the location and form of the bridge built on the faulted fits perfectly with the topographical conditions of the land on which the bridge is situated.
It has 174 arches at different heights and different shapes: round and pointed. Among those arches 171 are visible today, whereas remaining two are below ground and two arches are combined together. The vaulted feet of the stone bridge stands on the base of the Ergene River and its main flood areas, which are reinforced with stone and wood. Arches’ widths are ranged between 4.68 m (the narrow arch is 4.68 m. in upstream direction and 4.71 m in downstream direction) and 13.55 m (the largest arch is 13.19 m in upstream direction and 13.55m in downstream direction). Width and height of all 174 arches of the bridge were designed to allow the bridge to perform its task perfectly by taking into account that the winter and spring seasons floods. The Edirne side of the bridge (north side) has a sloping section where the arches rising by 2.5% like a ramp and has 22 arches. The section which stands on the Ergene River is 33.67 meters and has the largest arches which let the water flow through in comfortably. After the arches passes Ergene River, bridge belts directed to south-east direction with a wide angle and slope through the Uzunköprü town. In this largest section (1070.8 meters) height of bridge decreased by about 2% and bridge joins the town.

Tomislav Šipek & Ivan Sache, 14 March 2016

Municipalities

Kurtbey

Flag of Kurtbey - Image by Jens Pattke, 10 June 2015

The flag of Kurtbey (photo) is white with the municipality's emblem. "Belediye Başkanlığı" means "Municipality Presidency".

Tomislav Šipek, 16 May 2013

Professional boards

Uzunköprü Chamber of Commerce and Industry

Flag of UTSO - Image by Ivan Sache, 5 August 2019

The flag of UTSO (photo, photo, photo) is white with the organization's emblem.

Ivan Sache, 5 August 2019

Uzunköprü Commodity Exchange

Flag of UZTB - Image by Ivan Sache, 7 August 2019

The flag of UZTB (photo, photo) is white with the organization's emblem.

Ivan Sache, 7 August 2019