The Battalgazi Bridge (), also known as the Euphrates Railway Bridge (), is a bridge in eastern

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. It is a long railway bridge spanning the

Euphrates The Euphrates ( ; see #Etymology, below) is the longest and one of the most historically important rivers of West Asia. Tigris–Euphrates river system, Together with the Tigris, it is one of the two defining rivers of Mesopotamia (). Originati ...

river, located about northeast of

Malatya Malatya (; ; Syriac language, Syriac ܡܠܝܛܝܢܐ Malīṭīná; ; Ancient Greek: Μελιτηνή) is a city in the Eastern Anatolia region of Turkey and the capital of Malatya Province. The city has been a human settlement for thousands of y ...

. The structure was built between 1981 and 1986 by the

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, on the Fevzipaşa-Kurtalan railway, as a replacement for an older bridge, opened in 1935, which was flooded with the construction of the Karakaya Dam. The bridge was the longest bridge in Turkey from 1986 to 2007, when it was surpassed by the Bornova Viaduct in

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; and the longest railway bridge until 2008, when surpassed by the Sakarya Viaduct. From 2008, it is the 7th longest bridge in the country and 2nd longest railway bridge.

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