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Baku–Tbilisi–Kars railway

Index Baku–Tbilisi–Kars railway

The Baku–Tbilisi–Kars (BTK), or Baku-Tbilisi-Akhalkalaki-Kars railway (BTAK), became operational on October 30, 2017. [1]

59 relations: Abdullah Gül, Akhalkalaki, Aktau, Ankara railway station, Armenia, Armenian lobby in the United States, Armenian Railways, Azerbaijan, Azerbaijan Railways, Azg (daily), Ələt, Baku, Baku–Tbilisi–Ceyhan pipeline, Batumi, Bogie exchange, Break of gauge, Caspian Sea, Central Asia, European Union, Georgia (country), Georgian Railways, Giorgi Kvirikashvili, Gyumri, Haydarpaşa railway station, Ilham Aliyev, Interfax, Kars, Kars–Gyumri–Tbilisi railway, Kartsakhi, Kazakhstan, Lütfi Elvan, Marabda, Mikheil Saakashvili, Nagorno-Karabakh, Nagorno-Karabakh War, Ninotsminda, Poti, President of Azerbaijan, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Railway Gazette International, Russo-Georgian War, Stadler Rail, Standard-gauge railway, State Oil Fund of Azerbaijan, Tajikistan, Tatul Hakobyan, Türkmenbaşy, Turkmenistan, Tbilisi, Tonne, TRACECA, ..., Transcaucasia, Transcaucasus Railway, Turkey, Turkish State Railways, Turkmenistan, United States, Uzbekistan, Variable gauge, 5 ft and 1520 mm gauge railways. Expand index (9 more) »

Abdullah Gül

Abdullah Gül (born 29 October 1950) is a Turkish politician who served as the 11th President of Turkey, in office from 2007 to 2014.

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Akhalkalaki

Akhalkalaki (ახალქალაქი, for New City (from Georgian ɑxɑli meaning "new" and kʰɑlɑkʰi meaning "city" or "town"); Ախալքալաք; Ahılkelek) is a town in Georgia's southern region of Samtskhe-Javakheti.

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Aktau

Aktau (Ақтау, Aqtaý) is a city in Kazakhstan, located on the east bank of the Caspian Sea.

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Ankara railway station

Ankara railway station (Ankara Garı) is the main railway station in Ankara, Turkey, and is a major transportation hub within the city.

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Armenia

Armenia (translit), officially the Republic of Armenia (translit), is a country in the South Caucasus region of Eurasia.

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Armenian lobby in the United States

The Armenian American lobby is the diverse coalition of those who, as individuals and as groups, seek to influence the United States foreign policy in support of Armenia, Armenians or Armenian policies.

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Armenian Railways

Armenian Railways (Հայկական երկաթուղի) was a rail operator in Armenia.

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Azerbaijan

No description.

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Azerbaijan Railways

Azerbaijan Railways (Azərbaycan Dəmir Yolları) is the national state-owned rail transport operator in the Republic of Azerbaijan.

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Azg (daily)

Azg (Ազգ, "Nation") is a daily newspaper published in Yerevan, Armenia since 1991.

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Ələt

Ələt (also, Älät, Aliat, Aljat, Aliaty, Alyat, Alyat-Pristan’, Alyati-Pristan’, Alyaty, and Alyaty-Pristan’) is a settlement and municipality in Baku, Azerbaijan.

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Baku

Baku (Bakı) is the capital and largest city of Azerbaijan, as well as the largest city on the Caspian Sea and of the Caucasus region, with a population of 2,374,000.

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Baku–Tbilisi–Ceyhan pipeline

The Baku–Tbilisi–Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline is a long crude oil pipeline from the Azeri–Chirag–Gunashli oil field in the Caspian Sea to the Mediterranean Sea.

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Batumi

Batumi (ბათუმი) is the second-largest city of Georgia, located on the coast of the Black Sea in the country's southwest.

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Bogie exchange

Bogie exchange is a system for operating railway wagons on two or more gauges to overcome difference in the track gauge.

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Break of gauge

With railways, a break of gauge occurs where a line of one gauge meets a line of a different gauge.

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Caspian Sea

The Caspian Sea is the largest enclosed inland body of water on Earth by area, variously classed as the world's largest lake or a full-fledged sea.

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Central Asia

Central Asia stretches from the Caspian Sea in the west to China in the east and from Afghanistan in the south to Russia in the north.

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European Union

The European Union (EU) is a political and economic union of EUnum member states that are located primarily in Europe.

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Georgia (country)

Georgia (tr) is a country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia.

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Georgian Railways

Georgian Railway LLC (საქართველოს რკინიგზა, Sakartvelos Rkinigza) is the national railway company of Georgia.

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Giorgi Kvirikashvili

Giorgi Kvirikashvili (გიორგი კვირიკაშვილი; born 20 July 1967) is a Georgian politician who was Prime Minister of Georgia from 30 December 2015 to 13 June 2018.

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Gyumri

Gyumri (Գյումրի), is an urban municipal community and the second largest city in Armenia, serving as the administrative centre of Shirak Province in the northwestern part of the country.

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Haydarpaşa railway station

Haydarpaşa station (Haydarpaşa Garı) is a railway station in Istanbul.

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Ilham Aliyev

Ilham Aliyev (İlham Heydər oğlu Əliyev; born 24 December 1961) is the fourth and current President of Azerbaijan, in office since 2003.

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Interfax

Interfax Ltd. (Интерфакс) is a privately-held independent major news agency in Russia (along with state-operated TASS and RIA Novosti) and information services company headquartered in Moscow.

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Kars

Kars (Armenian: Կարս, less commonly known as Ղարս Ghars) is a city in northeast Turkey and the capital of Kars Province.

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Kars–Gyumri–Tbilisi railway

The Kars–Gyumri–Tbilisi railway line is a railway line that runs from the city of Kars in Turkey to the Armenian city of Gyumri, then from there on to Tbilisi, Georgia.

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Kartsakhi

Kartsakhi (Georgian: კარწახი) is a village in Akhalkalaki Municipality, Samtskhe–Javakheti, Georgia.

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Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan (Qazaqstan,; kəzɐxˈstan), officially the Republic of Kazakhstan (Qazaqstan Respýblıkasy; Respublika Kazakhstan), is the world's largest landlocked country, and the ninth largest in the world, with an area of.

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Lütfi Elvan

Lütfi Elvan (born 12 March 1962) is a Turkish mining engineer, politician and a Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey, in office since 24 November 2015.

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Marabda

Marabda (მარაბდა) is a community in Georgia, located some 23 km south of the capital Tbilisi, and a few kilometers north of Marneuli.

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Mikheil Saakashvili

Mikheil Saakashvili (მიხეილ სააკაშვილი, Mixeil Saak'ašvili; Міхеіл Саакашвілі, Michejil Saakašwili; born 21 December 1967) is a Georgian and Ukrainian politician.

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Nagorno-Karabakh

Nagorno-Karabakh, meaning "Mountainous Karabakh," also known as Artsakh, is a landlocked region in the South Caucasus, within the mountainous range of Karabakh, lying between Lower Karabakh and Zangezur, and covering the southeastern range of the Lesser Caucasus mountains.

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Nagorno-Karabakh War

The Nagorno-Karabakh War was an ethnic and territorial conflict that took place in the late 1980s to May 1994, in the enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh in southwestern Azerbaijan, between the majority ethnic Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh backed by the Republic of Armenia, and the Republic of Azerbaijan.

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Ninotsminda

Ninotsminda (Georgian: ნინოწმინდა) is a town and a center of the eponymous municipality located in Georgia's southern district of Samtskhe-Javakheti.

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Poti

Poti (ფოთი; Mingrelian: ფუთი; Laz: ჶაში/Faşi or ფაში/Paşi) is a port city in Georgia, located on the eastern Black Sea coast in the region of Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti in the west of the country.

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President of Azerbaijan

The President of the Republic of Azerbaijan is the head of state of Azerbaijan.

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Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) is a broadcasting organization that broadcasts and reports news, information, and analysis to countries in Eastern Europe, Central Asia and the Middle East where it says that "the free flow of information is either banned by government authorities or not fully developed".

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Railway Gazette International

Railway Gazette International is a monthly business journal covering the railway, metro, light rail and tram industries worldwide.

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Russo-Georgian War

The Russo-Georgian War was a war between Georgia, Russia and the Russian-backed self-proclaimed republics of South Ossetia and Abkhazia.

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Stadler Rail

Stadler Rail AG, also known as Stadler Rail Group, is a Swiss manufacturer of railway rolling stock, with an emphasis on regional train multiple units and trams.

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Standard-gauge railway

A standard-gauge railway is a railway with a track gauge of.

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State Oil Fund of Azerbaijan

The State Oil Fund of the Republic of Azerbaijan (SOFAZ) is Azerbaijan’s sovereign wealth fund, whereby energy-related earnings are accumulated and efficiently managed for future generations.

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Tajikistan

Tajikistan (or; Тоҷикистон), officially the Republic of Tajikistan (Ҷумҳурии Тоҷикистон, Jumhuriyi Tojikiston), is a mountainous, landlocked country in Central Asia with an estimated population of million people as of, and an area of.

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Tatul Hakobyan

Tatul Hakobyan (Թաթուլ Հակոբյան; born December 29, 1969) is an Armenian reporter and an independent political analyst.

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Türkmenbaşy, Turkmenistan

Türkmenbaşy (Turkmen Cyrillic: Түркменбашы, Turkmen Arabic; ترکمن‌باشی, also spelled Turkmenbashi, Түркменбаши), formerly known as Krasnovodsk (Красноводск) and Kyzyl-Su, is a city in Balkan Province in Turkmenistan, on the Krasnovodsk Gulf of the Caspian Sea.

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Tbilisi

Tbilisi (თბილისი), in some countries also still named by its pre-1936 international designation Tiflis, is the capital and the largest city of Georgia, lying on the banks of the Kura River with a population of approximately 1.5 million people.

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Tonne

The tonne (Non-SI unit, symbol: t), commonly referred to as the metric ton in the United States, is a non-SI metric unit of mass equal to 1,000 kilograms;.

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TRACECA

TRACECA (acronym: Transport Corridor Europe-Caucasus-Asia) is an international transport programme involving the European Union and 14 member States of the Eastern European, Caucasian and Central Asian region.

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Transcaucasia

Transcaucasia (Закавказье), or the South Caucasus, is a geographical region in the vicinity of the southern Caucasus Mountains on the border of Eastern Europe and Western Asia.

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Transcaucasus Railway

The Transcaucus Railway (Закавка́зская желе́зная доро́га) was the first railway in South Caucasus.

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Turkey

Turkey (Türkiye), officially the Republic of Turkey (Türkiye Cumhuriyeti), is a transcontinental country in Eurasia, mainly in Anatolia in Western Asia, with a smaller portion on the Balkan peninsula in Southeast Europe.

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Turkish State Railways

The State Railways of the Republic of Turkey (Türkiye Cumhuriyeti Devlet Demiryolları), abbreviated as TCDD, is a government-owned national railway company responsible with the ownership and maintenance of railway infrastructure in Turkey, as well as the planning and construction of new lines.

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Turkmenistan

Turkmenistan (or; Türkmenistan), (formerly known as Turkmenia) is a sovereign state in Central Asia, bordered by Kazakhstan to the northwest, Uzbekistan to the north and east, Afghanistan to the southeast, Iran to the south and southwest, and the Caspian Sea to the west.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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Uzbekistan

Uzbekistan, officially also the Republic of Uzbekistan (Oʻzbekiston Respublikasi), is a doubly landlocked Central Asian Sovereign state.

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Variable gauge

A variable gauge system allows railway vehicles in a train to travel across a break of gauge caused by two railway networks with differing track gauges.

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5 ft and 1520 mm gauge railways

Railways with a railway track gauge of were first constructed in the United Kingdom and the United States.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baku–Tbilisi–Kars_railway

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