The bridge was built by Mehmed Pasha Sokolovic and opened in 1574. It was the bridge connecting central Bosnia and Novi (today's Herceg Novi in Montenegro) within Ottoman Bosnia and was a popular place for trading around. In 1687 the Venetians captured the Novi that caused the withdrawal of the wealthy Muslim population towards Trebinje and the bridge lost its significance. This was also influenced by the construction of the roads towards Dubrovnik. One of the Muslims from Novi was Arslan-aga who was tasked with looking after the bridge, he built his house right next to the bridge. In...

The bridge was built by Mehmed Pasha Sokolovic and opened in 1574. It was the bridge connecting central Bosnia and Novi (today's Herceg Novi in Montenegro) within Ottoman Bosnia and was a popular place for trading around. In 1687 the Venetians captured the Novi that caused the withdrawal of the wealthy Muslim population towards Trebinje and the bridge lost its significance. This was also influenced by the construction of the roads towards Dubrovnik. One of the Muslims from Novi was Arslan-aga who was tasked with looking after the bridge, he built his house right next to the bridge. In time, the whole village became to be called Arslanagici and the bridge began to be called the Arslanagi Bridge. In 1944 the Chetniks tried to demolish the bridge. During the explosion, only the left wing of a bridge about 8 meters long was destroyed, which after the war was replaced with a narrow concrete tape. Another damage to the bridge occurred in 1965 when Yugoslavian authorities decided to make a reservoir lake Gorica for the needs of the hydroelectric power plant at that place. The bridge was sunk for a year and lay underwater for a year. After a discharge of accumulated lake in in 1966 the bridge was dismantled a stone on the stone, and it was standing in the nearby field. The project of reconstruction of the bridge was made by the company "Energoinvest" from Sarajevo. The legend says that there was then a bidding from abroad to buy a bridge, of which the most conclusive came from Canada . However, in 1970 the movement began and after two years of agreement (the stone blocks were marked with numbers and transported by boats) the bridge was reopened, this time several kilometers lower in the Trebinje. The village of Arslanagića Bridge is largely sunk and there are only a few houses above the lake level. The bridge was proclaimed a national monument of Bosnia and Herzegovina (translated from bs.wikipedia.org)