Osmangazi Bridge & the Gulf

“We will either find a way, or make one.” These words, attributed to Hannibal of Carthage, capture the stubbornness of a commander who resolved to cross the Alps with his elephants. But did you know that the man who spoke them ended his life thousands of kilometers from the Alps, on the northern shore of the Gulf of İzmit? Choosing poison over being handed to the Romans, Hannibal drew his last breath at Libyssa, near today’s Gebze… Perhaps no one knew better than he the price of making a way.