Berlin–Baghdad railway
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berlin-baghdad-railway-163-4330862
title:
Berlin–Baghdad railway
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The Baghdad railway, also known as the Berlin–Baghdad railway, 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 Persian Gulf, with a 1,600-kilometre (1,000 mi) line through modern-day Turkey, Syria, and Iraq. The line was completed only in 1940. By the outbreak of World War I, the railway was still 960 km away from its intended objective. The last stretch to Baghdad was built in the late 1930s and the first trai
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Railway line
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin%E2%80%93Baghdad_railway
date created:
2005-05-29T12:02:03Z
date modified:
2024-08-28T10:16:41Z
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