ARCHITECTURAL AND HYDROLOGICAL FEATURES OF THE HISTORICAL BASALT BRIDGES IN DIYARBAKIR-TURKEY

Historical structures reflect the cultures, religions, language, and civilization and development levels of people lived in the past. In brief, each historical structure can be qualified as evidence of the life of the people built them. Furthermore, such structures give information about the early age nature of the region (i.e. hydrological, meteorological, geological characters of the region their built). Therefore protecting such historical structures and the recording the information about them are essentially important. With the respect of above mentioned consideration in this study, the historical bridges located (built) in Diyarbakir province have been first mapped. Then, they have been architecturally, hydrological, and geologically interpreted. In another word, the features, the structural materials, and streams of the bridges are architecturally, geologically, and hydrologically examined respectively.