Gazi Mihal Köprüsü carries a road over the Tunca river in Edirne's central district, a historic Ottoman bridge built up in stages over several reigns. The first bridge here was the work of the Byzantine emperor Mihail VIII (1259–1282); early in the 15th century the Ottoman frontier lord Gazi Mihal had it rebuilt, and it took his name.
In 1544 Sultan Süleyman I extended the western end, adding eight more arches to the eight of the original section, and Sultan Mehmed III later added the stretch remembered as the 'middle bridge', a section with two arches.
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- Climate
- Across Edirne as a whole, monthly mean temperatures run from 2.8 °C in January to 24.8 °C in July; the mean stays between 15 and 25 °C in May, June, July, August and September; rainfall is heaviest in December (71 mm) and lightest in August (23 mm). Long-term means for 1930-2025 from the Turkish State Meteorological Service (MGM).
