GRAVÜR DÜNYASI
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| Artist | Victor Felix Danvin (1802-1842) |
| Engraver | Augustin François Lemaitre (1797-1870)-William Alexander Le Petit (1804-1896) |
| Date | 1840 |
| Technique | Copper Engraving |
| Category | Ottoman Empire And Turkey |
| Source | Turkey Volume Of L'Univers Pittoresque, Paris |
Located at the point where Büyükçekmece Lake meets the Sea of Marmara, the Suleiman the Magnificent Bridge was built by Mimar Sinan in 1566-1567 upon the order of Suleiman the Magnificent. The stone bridge, which is 636 meters long, 7 meters wide and has 28 arches, consists of 4 sections of different lengths and sizes, joined to each other by 3 artificial islands.
