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The text related to the cultural heritage 'Old Bridge Area of the Old City of Mostar' has mentioned 'Bridge' in the following places:
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| of spans1Clearance belowcca.20 metres at mid-span depending on river water-levelHistoryArchitectMimar Hayruddin (concept could originate from Mimar Sinanxe2x80xb2s idea)Constructed byMimar Hayruddin, apprentice of Mimar SinanConstruction start1557Construction end1566Opened1567Rebuilt7 June 2001 xe2x80x93 23 July 2004Collapsed9 November 1993 UNESCO World Heritage SiteOfficial nameOld Bridge Area of the Old City of MostarTypeCulturalCriteriaviDesignated2005 (29th session)Referencexc2xa0no.946State Partyxc2xa0Bosnia and HerzegovinaRegionEurope Location | WIKI |
| Stari Most (literally 'Old Bridge'; Serbian: xd0xa1xd1x82xd0xb0xd1x80xd0xb8 xd0xbcxd0xbexd1x81xd1x82), also known as Mostar Bridge (Turkish: Mostar Kxc3xb6prxc3xbcsxc3xbc), is a rebuilt 16th-century Ottoman bridge in the city of Mostar in Bosnia and Herzegovina that crosses the river Neretva and connects the two parts of the city. | WIKI |
| The Old Bridge stood for 427 years, until it was destroyed on 9 November 1993 by Croat paramilitary forces during the Croatxe2x80x93Bosniak War. | WIKI |
| Subsequently, a project was set in motion to reconstruct it; the rebuilt bridge opened on 23 July 2004. | WIKI |
| The bridge is considered an exemplary piece of Balkan Islamic architecture and was commissioned by Suleiman the Magnificent in 1557. | WIKI |
| The bridge spans the Neretva river in the old town of Mostar, the city to which it gave the name. | WIKI |
| Two fortified towers protect it: the Halebija tower on the northeast and the Tara tower on the southwest, called "the bridge keepers" (natively mostari). | WIKI |
| Instead of foundations, the bridge has abutments of limestone linked to wing walls along the waterside cliffs. | WIKI |
| The original bridge replaced an older wooden suspension bridge of dubious stability. | WIKI |
| Construction began in 1557 and took nine years: according to the inscription the bridge was completed in 974 AH, corresponding to the period between 19 July 1566 [1] and 7 July 1567. | WIKI |
| Little is known of the construction of the bridge, thought to have been made from mortar made with egg whites,[6] and all that has been preserved in writing are memories and legends and the name of the builder, Mimar Hayruddin. | WIKI |
| Charged under pain of death to construct a bridge of such unprecedented dimensions, Hayruddin reportedly prepared for his own funeral on the day the scaffolding was finally removed from the completed structure. | WIKI |
| The 17th Century Ottoman explorer Evliya xc3x87elebi wrote that the bridge "is like a rainbow arch soaring up to the skies, extending from one cliff to the other... | WIKI |
| I, a poor and miserable slave of Allah, have passed through 16 countries, but I have never seen such a high bridge. | WIKI |
| The old bridge on the river "...was made of wood and hung on chains," wrote the Ottoman geographer Katip xc3x87elebi, and it "...swayed so much that people crossing it did so in mortal fear". | WIKI |
| [citation needed] In 1566, Mimar Hayruddin designed the bridge, which was said to have cost 300,000 Drams (silver coins) to build. | WIKI |
| The temporary cable bridge | WIKI |
| The Old Bridge was destroyed on November 9, 1993 in the War in Bosnia and Herzegovina, in a standoff that lasted about 24 hours. | WIKI |
| [8] The first temporary bridge on the traces of the Old Bridge was open on December 30, 1993; built in only three days by Spanish military engineers assigned to the United Nations Protection Force (UNPROFOR) mission. | WIKI |
| [9][10][11] The temporary structure was subsequently upgraded three times, to eventually link the shores with a more secure cable-stayed bridge until the proper reconstruction of the Old Bridge. | WIKI |
| Newspapers based in Sarajevo reported that more than 60 shells hit the bridge before it collapsed. | WIKI |
| [13] Croatian General and sentenced war-criminal, Slobodan Praljak, in attempt to absolve himself and his military units from responsibility and prosecution for the destruction of the bridge and other crimes committed during the war, published a document, "How the Old Bridge Was Destroyed", where he argues that there was supposedly an explosive charge or mine placed at the center of the bridge underneath and detonated remotely, in addition to the shelling, which caused the collapse. | WIKI |
| [15] Academics have argued that the bridge held little strategic value and that its shelling was an example of deliberate cultural property destruction. | WIKI |
| Given that mosques, synagogues, and churches in Mostar were in close proximity, the Old Bridge was targeted for the symbolic significance it served in connecting diverse communities. | WIKI |
| After the end of the war, plans were raised to reconstruct the bridge. | WIKI |
| [16] It was decided to build a bridge as similar as possible to the original, using the same technology and materials. | WIKI |
| The bridge was re-built in two phases: the first one being led by Hungarian army engineers, consisting in the lifting of submerged material for its repurpose; and the second one being the removal of the temporary bridge xe2x80x94task assigned to Spanish army engineersxe2x80x94 and the reconstruction of the Old Bridge with Ottoman construction techniques by a partnership of civil engineering companies led by the Turkish Er-Bu. | WIKI |
| [17][18][19] Tenelia, a fine-grained limestone, sourced from local quarries was used and Hungarian army divers recovered stones from the original bridge from the river below, although most were too damaged to reuse. | WIKI |
| The reconstructed bridge was inaugurated on 23 July 2004, with the cost estimated to be 15.5 million US dollars. | WIKI |
| It is traditional for the young men of the town to leap from the bridge into the Neretva. | WIKI |
| The first person to jump from the bridge since it was re-opened was Enej Kelecija. | WIKI |
| Turkish lyrics English translation (...) Bugxc3xbcn duyduxc4x9fun haberler Sana utanxc3xa7 veriyor Olabilir Bugxc3xbcn din ve xc4xb1rk uxc4x9fruna Cinayet ixc5x9fleniyor Olabilir Mostar Kxc3xb6prxc3xbcsxc3xbc xc3xa7xc3xb6kmxc3xbcxc5x9f Neretva ne kadar xc3xbczgxc3xbcn Kim bilir (...) (...) Today the news that you heard Makes you feel ashamed May be Today for the sake of religion and race Murder is being committed May be Mostar Bridge has been collapsed How sad is Neretva Who knows (...) | WIKI |
| This relatively small settlement had two towers around the bridge, which dated 1459, as noted by written historical sources. | UNESCO |
| The current name, Mostar, was mentioned for the first time in 1474 and derived from "mostari" - the bridge keepers. | UNESCO |
| Mostar has been long known for its old Turkish houses and the Old Bridge xe2x80x93 Stari most, an extraordinary technological achievement of bridge construction. | UNESCO |
| The essence of centuries-long cultural continuity is represented by the universal synthesis of life phenomena: the bridge and its fortresses xe2x80x93 with the rich archeological layers from the pre-Ottoman period, religious edifices, residential zones (mahalas), arable lands, houses, bazaar, its public life in the streets and water. | UNESCO |
| In the 1990 conflict, however, most of the historic town and the Old Bridge, a masterpiece designed by the famous architect, mimar Hajruddin (according to the design of his master-teacher, great architect mimar Sinan), were destroyed. | UNESCO |
| The Old Bridge was rebuilt in 2004 and many of the edifices in the Old Town were restored or rebuilt with the contribution of the international scientific committee established by UNESCO. | UNESCO |
| The Old Bridge Area, with its pre-Ottoman, Eastern Ottoman, Mediterranean and Western European architectural features, is an outstanding example of a multicultural urban settlement. | UNESCO |
| The reconstructed Old Bridge and Old City of Mostar are symbols of reconciliation, international cooperation and the coexistence of diverse cultural, ethnic and religious communities. | UNESCO |
| Criterion (vi): With the xe2x80x9crenaissancexe2x80x9d of the Old Bridge and its surroundings, the symbolic power and meaning of the City of Mostar - as an exceptional and universal symbol of coexistence of communities from diverse cultural, ethnic and religious backgrounds - has been reinforced and strengthened, underlining the unlimited efforts of human solidarity for peace and powerful cooperation in the face of overwhelming catastrophes. | UNESCO |
| After the reconstruction works, the Old Bridge is again a testimonial, in time and space, of the history of the Old City of Mostar. | UNESCO |
| Reconstruction works of the Old Bridge complex and its surrounding monumental structures, infrastructure and majority of urban fabric took into consideration the overall integrity of the place. | UNESCO |
| The exceptional features of the historic urban area of Mostar were presented again in their interrelation between natural and constructed elements, with the Old Bridge as a masterpiece of bridge construction. | UNESCO |
| Furthermore, archaeological findings of the older medieval bridges (almost at the same location of the Old Bridge) point out the strong historical and functional integrity as well as the ability of architects and town planners to integrate new development principles and architecture with the earlier medieval era. | UNESCO |
| The reconstruction of the Old Bridge was based on thorough and detailed, multi-facetted analyses, relying on high quality documentation. | UNESCO |
| The reconstruction of the fabric of the bridge should be seen as the background to the restoration of the intangible dimensions of this property. | UNESCO |