جسور مدينة بغداد خلال العهد العثماني الأخير 1869-1917 م

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The governor, Medhat Pasha, established a department for the benefit of supervising matters related to roads and bridges, but it was abolished in 1872 AD, and the state of Baghdad throughout the years between (1872 - 1906 AD) has been free from the existence of any specialized department that implements and supervises public projects, except that the Ottoman government In 1906, she appointed an engineer for the benefit in the state of Baghdad, and created a committee of her own, affiliated to the local administration of the state.

In Baghdad, major bridges were built which connected the eastern side (Rusafa) to the western side (Al-Karkh).

The first is the bridge that the governor, Medhat Pasha, constructed in 1870 AD instead of the old wooden bridge, and decorated it so that the procession of the Iranian Shah Nasser al-Din passed over during his visit to Iraq, and when he took over Namik Pasha, Baghdad State, instructed the Sanayeh School to construct a new bridge in Baghdad in 1902, replacing the bridge constructed by Medhat Pasha, as it became invalid for traffic, In 1916 AD, this bridge was moved to Salman Pak front on the Diyala River, and the Turks burned it after their withdrawal from Baghdad in 1917 AD, and the place of the bridge transferred to Salman Pak was built a new bridge in Baghdad in 1916 AD.

Four other secondary bridges were built in the city of Baghdad, which is the Al-Khar Bridge on the western side of Baghdad, on the Al-Khar River, which was first built in 1882 AD and was rebuilt in 1898 AD, and Al-Masoudi Bridge in 1884 AD which is linked to both the Hilla and Karbala Courts at the Wilaya Center, in addition to To Al-Adhamia Bridge in 1884 AD, made of floating wood panels, and bridge his decision at the (Al-Qarara) Crossing in 1889 AD.

a bridge project was under construction in Baghdad, as the local government in the state of Baghdad agreed with one of the companies in Germany to establish an iron bridge to cross the people, cars, tramway and cannons, instead of the wooden bridge that extends over the Tigris River in 1914, but it was not implemented.