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Red Bridge

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Red Bridge
Red Bridge
Red Bridge
Red Bridge
Red Bridge
Red Bridge
Red Bridge
Red Bridge
Red Bridge
Red Bridge
Red Bridge
Red Bridge
Red Bridge
Red Bridge
Red Bridge
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| Crosses Hrazdan River, Yerevan, Armenia

The Red Bridge is a ruined 17th-century bridge on the Hrazdan River, in Yerevan, Armenia. It was called ‘red’ because as it is built of red tuff. The bridge was also called Khoja-plav bridge for Khoja-plav, a wealthy man from Kanaker who financed its reconstructruction.The total length of the bridge was 80 meters and its height was 11 meters. It had 4 arches. Two were in the middle and were squiggly, the other two arches were on the banks of the Hrazdan River.Before the 1679 earthquake there was a bridge in the same place but it was ruined by the earthquake. It provided economic connections between the Yerevan Fortress and the Ararat Plain.
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