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Share of the Baghdad railway, issued 31 December 1903 [1]. The Baghdad railway, also known as the Berlin–Baghdad railway (Turkish: Bağdat Demiryolu, German: Bagdadbahn, Arabic: سكة حديد بغداد, French: Chemin de Fer Impérial Ottoman de Bagdad), was started in 1903 to connect Berlin with the then Ottoman city of Baghdad, from where the Germans wanted to establish a port on the ...
Haydarpasha Istanbul - designed to be a flagship station of the Berlin to Baghdad railway: Kaiser Wilhelm's Weltpolitik taking concrete form (from McMeekin's Prologue). As the Ottoman Empire lined up with Germany during the First World War a project unfolded to turn the Muslim world against British power: 'from Tripoli to Kabul', the Germans '[spread] jihad, guns and bribes'.
Berlin–Baghdad railway: CFIO 1899 1924 Chemins de fer d'Anatolie Baghdad: Baghdad Railway Anatolian Baghdad Railways: 1924 1927 Turkish State Railways: Samsun–Çarşamba railway: 1924 1929 Turkish State Railways: 750mm narrow gauge line. Not connected to the national network. Eastern Railway (Turkey) 1925 1927 Turkish State Railways
The Baghdad Railway (Turkish: Bağdat Demiryolu, German: Bagdadbahn), was built from 1903 to 1940 to connect Berlin with the (then) Ottoman Empire city of Baghdad with a 1,600 kilometres (990 mi) line through modern-day Turkey, Syria, and Iraq.
Aleppo railway station (Arabic: محطة قطار حلب) more commonly Gare de Baghdad (Arabic: محطة بغداد), is the 2nd oldest railway station in Syria and the main station of the city of Aleppo. It was opened in 1912 as part of the Berlin–Baghdad railway. [1] The first ever trip from the station was towards the town of Jarabulus.
Pages in category "Cross-border railway lines in Turkey" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total. ... Berlin–Baghdad railway; I. Istanbul ...
The Baghdad Railway was a proposed railway line that would connect Berlin, Germany, to Baghdad, Iraq, passing through modern-day Turkey and reaching the Ottoman Empire's territories in the Middle East.
Once the Ottoman Empire entered the war against the allies, the completion of the Berlin–Baghdad railway became a threat to the allies, as the actual origin was Hamburg and the intended terminus Basra. This route from the North Sea to the Indian Ocean posed a major threat to the British Empire which acted promptly to seize Basra and blockade ...