Bent Bridge

The Bent Bridge or Curved Bridge is a stone curve connect over the Kezelirmak River 3 km southeast of the focal point of Sivas in Central Anatolia, Turkey. The scaffold lies in the city's Kardesler ward, out and about from Sivas to Malatya and forward to Syria and Mesopotamia. History specialist Thomas Alexander Sinclair says the scaffold was initially worked in medieval occasions, most likely by the Seljuk Sultanate of Rum and broadly reconstructed in the late-Ottoman time frame.

The Bent Bridge comprises of 18 stone curves and is 179.60 m long and 4.55 m wide. Traveling from Sivas, the scaffold ascends from the northern bank of the waterway and runs easterly for 60 m over the initial six curves. By then the deck turns 45 degrees to drop southeast for 120 m over the rest of the 12 curves, the inclination over the last three curves being much steeper. Sinclair relates that one motivation to assemble a scaffold with a raised point towards the waterway stream may have been to oppose the weight of ice in winter.

Every one of the curves are pointed and most are a similar width, aside from three particularly wide ones. The upstream wharfs all have stone cutwaters. The parapet has a thick embellishment outwardly and is worked with gaps to enable water to stream off the roadway. Sinclair recognizes spolia from the Classical and Anatolian Seljuk periods in the development of the ebb and flow connect.