- Smaller bridges, such as those used for foot traffic or pack animals, might be only a few feet wide
- Larger bridges, such as those used for military campaigns or heavy trade, could be several
feet wide.
- The Pons Mulvius, located outside of Rome on the Via Flaminia, for example,
had a width of about 8 feet (2.4 meters),
- while the famous Ponte Sant'Angelo in Rome had a width of about 28 feet (8.5 meters).
Cyprus, in its centuries-long historical course, has known many foreign dynasties. In 1878 the Turks ceded it to the British. The Cypriots initially welcomed this change, considering that the British would allow, at least in time, their union with Greece, as they had done with the Ionian Islands. Th
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