Karamagara Bridge

Karamagara Bridge
The single pointed arch of 17 m span
Coordinates	38°55′30″N 38°39′31″E / 38.924961°N 38.658486°E / 38.924961; 38.658486
Carries	Roman road to Melitene
Crosses	Arapgir Çayı
Locale	Near Ağın, Elazığ Province, Eastern Anatolia Region, Turkey
Characteristics
Design	Pointed arch bridge
Material	Stone
Longest span	17 m
No. of spans	1
History
Construction end	5th or 6th century AD
Location

The Karamagara Bridge (Turkish: Karamağara Köprüsü, "Bridge of the Black Cave") is a Byzantine or late Roman bridge in the ancient region of Cappadocia in eastern Turkey, and possibly the earliest known pointed arch bridge.^[1]

The bridge, along with much of the Arapgir Çayı valley, has been submerged since the completion of the Keban Dam in 1975, as a result of which the water level in the Euphrates valley and some of its upstream tributaries dramatically rose.^[2]