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Trajan's Bridge (Romanian: Podul lui Traian; Serbian: Трајанов мост, romanized: Trajanov most), also called Bridge of Apollodorus over the Danube, was a Roman segmental arch bridge, the first bridge to be built over the lower Danube and considered one of the greatest achievements in Roman architecture. Though it was only functional ...
Via Appia (white) and Via Traiana (red). The Via Traiana was an ancient Roman road.It was built by the emperor Trajan as an extension of the Via Appia from Beneventum, reaching Brundisium (Brindisi) by a shorter route (i.e. via Canusium, Butuntum and Barium rather than via Tarentum).
Trajan's Bridge destroyed: Podul lui Traian: 1,135 m (3,724 ft) Masonry Wooden truss arches, masonry piers: Danube. 105: ... Road bridge Danube–Black Sea Canal ...
This is a list of crossings of the Danube river, from its mouth in the Black Sea to its source in Germany.Next to each bridge listed is information regarding the year in which it was constructed and for what use it was constructed (foot bridge, bicycle bridge, road bridge or railway bridge), and the distance from the mouth of the river in kilometres where available.
Trajan's bridge was built in only three years (103–105 AD) by the famous architect Apollodorus of Damascus, at the same time as the fort. The bridge was considered the most daring work in the Roman world. Large canals, still visible in the marshy ground even today, were dug to lower Danube level and make construction of the piers easier.
The longest segmental arch bridge was the c. 1,100 m long Trajan's Bridge, whose wooden superstructure was supported by twenty concrete piers. [2] The Bridge at Limyra in modern-day Turkey, consisting of twenty-six flat brick arches, features the greatest lengths of all extant masonry structures in this category (360 m).
The following other wikis use this file: Usage on cs.wikipedia.org Železná vrata; Trajánův most; Usage on fa.wikipedia.org پل تراژان; Usage on hu.wikipedia.org
The Via Maris (purple), King's Highway (red), and other ancient Levantine trade routes, c. 1300 BCE. The Via Traiana Nova or Via Nova Traiana (Latin for 'Trajan's New Road'), previously known as the Via Regia or King's Highway, was an ancient Roman road built by Emperor Trajan in the province of Arabia Petraea, from Aqaba on the Red Sea to Bostra.