Band-e Kaisar

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The Band-e Kaisar, Pol-e Kaisar (“Caesar’s bridge”), Bridge of flower or Shadirwan was associate ancient arch bridge in Shushtar, Iran, and also the 1st within the country to mix it with a dam. Engineered by a Roman personnel within the third century AD on Sassanid order, it absolutely was additionally the foremost japanese Roman bridge and Roman dam, lying deep in Persian territory. Its dual-purpose style exerted a profound influence on Iranian technology and was instrumental in developing Sassanid water management techniques.
The more or less five hundred m long overflow dam over the Karun, Iran’s most effluent stream, was the core structure of the Shushtar Historical mechanism from that the town derived its agricultural productivity, and that has been selected by the UN agency as Iran’s tenth World Heritage website in 2009. The arched structure carried across the vital road between Pasargadae and also the Sassanid capital Ctesiphon. Persistently repaired within the Moslem amount, the dam bridge remained in use till the late nineteenth century.
According to Persian tradition, the Band-e Kaisar is known as once the Emperor of Rome flower (253–260 AD) World Health Organization was captured along with his entire army by the Sassanid ruler Shapur I once having been defeated within the Battle of Edessa (260). This huge labour force, which can have numbered up to seventy,000 men and enclosed the Roman engineering corps, was used by the victors for construction add Shushtar, a vital agricultural center in south-western Asian nation. To service its massive stretches of cultivatable land, altogether some one hundred fifty,000 hectares, the Romans started out to construct 3 structures: a canal referred to as Ab-i Gargar, and also the 2 dams of Band-e Kaisar and Band-e Mizan that directed the water flow of the Karun stream into the unreal watercourse.
The dam bridge at Shushtar belonged to the vital road affiliation between the Sassanid centres of Pasargadae and Ctesiphon. 2 additional Sassanid dam bridges on this road, the Pa-i-Pol across the Karkheh and also the one at Dezful over the Ab-i Diz, are assumed to be the modern work of Roman prisoners of war. Each exhibit usually Roman masonry sure with mortar, a method utterly foreign to autochthonal design.

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