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Berlin–Baghdad railway

Index Berlin–Baghdad railway

The Baghdad railway, also known as the Berlin–Baghdad railway (Bağdat Demiryolu, Bagdadbahn, سكة حديد بغداد, Chemin de Fer Impérial Ottoman de Bagdad), was built from 1903 to 1940 to connect Berlin with the (then) Ottoman Empire city of Baghdad, from where the Germans wanted to establish a port in the Persian Gulf, with a line through modern-day Turkey, Syria, and Iraq, linked to Europe by a bridge crossing the Bosphorous. [1]

164 relations: Abdülaziz, Abdul Hamid II, Adana, Adana Conference, Adana railway station, Adolf Marschall von Bieberstein, Al-Muslimiyah, Al-Rai, Syria, Al-Yaarubiyah, Aleppo, Aleppo railway station, Alfred von Kiderlen-Waechter, Anatolian Baghdad Railways, Anglo-Ottoman Convention of 1913, Arıkören railway station, Armenian Genocide, Armin T. Wegner, Aubrey Herbert, Çumra railway station, İslahiye railway station, İzmir–Eğirdir railway, Şenyurt-Mardin railway, Bahçe, Osmaniye, Battle of Aleppo (1918), Battle of Beersheba (1917), Battle of Kolubara, Battle of Kosturino, Battle of Krivolak, Bauhaus University, Weimar, Belemedik, Belemedik railway station, Bosporus Germans, Bostancı railway station, British currency in the Middle East, Calouste Gulbenkian, Carchemish, Ceyhan, Charge at Haritan, Chemins de fer Ottomans d'Anatolie, Chester concession, Cilician Gates, CIOB, Demirköprü (bridge), Deutsche Bank, Dissolution of the Ottoman Empire, Durak railway station, Eastern Question, Eduard Sachau, Edward FitzGerald Law, Eskişehir, ..., Fireless locomotive, Friedrich Schrader, Gaziantep railway station, Göztepe, Kadıköy, Georg von Siemens, George Lloyd, 1st Baron Lloyd, German Empire, Germanism (linguistics), Germany–Turkey relations, Germany–United Kingdom relations, Guenter Lewy, Hacıkırı railway station, Haydarpaşa railway station, Heinrich August Meissner, Hejaz railway, History of Germany, History of rail transport in Turkey, History of the Ottoman Empire, HMS E11, Iraq Petroleum Company, Iraqi Republic Railways, Iraqi State Railways PC class, Istanbul, Jarabulus, John Baptist Wolf, July 1903, July 1914, Kaşınhanı railway station, Kadıköy, Kafr Khasher, Karkamış, Karkamış Bridge, Karl Helfferich, Kartal railway station, Kobanî, Kuwait–Russia relations, Leonard Woolley, List of divided cities, List of Heidelberg University people, List of people associated with rail transport, List of railway lines in Turkey, List of Turkish railways, Macedonian Front, Manfred Pohl, Maraanaz, March 1903, Max von Oppenheim, Meidan Ekbis, Menagh, Mersin railway station, Mesopotamian campaign, Modern history, Mubarak Al-Sabah, Narrow-gauge railways in Turkey, New Order (Nazism), Niğde railway station, Niedermayer–Hentig Expedition, Nusaybin, Nusaybin railway station, Ottoman Bank, Ottoman entry into World War I, Ottoman railways, Palestine Railways, Paul Kennedy, Petroleum industry in Iraq, Philipp Holzmann, Philipp, Prince of Eulenburg, Port of Haydarpaşa, Pozantı railway station, Prussian G 8, Pursuit to Haritan, Rabia, Iraq, Raid on the Beersheba to Hafir el Auja railway, Rail transport in Israel, Rail transport in Lebanon, Rajo, Syria, Ras al-Ayn, Royal Road, Sergey Sazonov, Sijaraz, Southern Railway (Turkey), Sykes–Picot Agreement, Syria–Turkey border, Syrian Railways, Tarsus railway station, Taurus Express, Tell Halaf, The Berlin-Baghdad Express, Tigris, Timeline of Aleppo, Timeline of Istanbul, Timeline of the 20th century, Toprakkale–İskendurun railway, Trade route, Trans-Anatolian railway, Trans-Iranian Railway, Transcontinental railroad, Transport in the Arab League, Treaty of Ankara, Treaty of Sèvres, Triple Entente, Turkish State Railways, Ulukışla railway station, Ur, Varda Viaduct, Wilhelm II, German Emperor, Wilhelm von Pressel, Witnesses and testimonies of the Armenian Genocide, 1903, 1903 in rail transport, 1904 in rail transport, 1914 in rail transport, 1940 in rail transport, 4-6-2. Expand index (114 more) »

Abdülaziz

Abdülaziz (Ottoman Turkish: عبد العزيز / `Abdü’l-`Azīz, Abdülaziz; 8 February 18304 June 1876) was the 32nd Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and reigned between 25 June 1861 and 30 May 1876.

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Abdul Hamid II

Abdul Hamid II (عبد الحميد ثانی, `Abdü’l-Ḥamīd-i sânî; İkinci Abdülhamit; 21 September 184210 February 1918) was the 34th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and the last Sultan to exert effective control over the fracturing state.

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Adana

Adana (Ադանա) is a major city in southern Turkey.

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Adana Conference

The Adana ConferenceSelim Deringil, Turkish Foreign Policy During the Second World War: An 'Active' Neutrality, Cambridge University Press, 2004,, or Yenice Conference (Turkish: Adana Görüşmesi, Adana Mülakatı Sonraları bu görüşme Adana Mülakatı diye anılır oldu. Fakat hakikatte iki devlet adamının telâkisi Adana'da değil, Yenice istasyonunda ve vagon içinde olmuştu. Yenice, Tarsus'a bağlı küçük bir Nüseyri köyüdür ve Adanaya yirmi üç kilometre mesafededir. Konya istikametinden gelen trenler burada, Adana ve Mersin cihetine gitmek üzere, ikiye ayrılır. İstasyon, yüksek okaliptus ağaçlarının gölgelendirdiği şirin bir yerdir..., Hilmi Uran, Hâtıralarım, Ayyıldız Matbaası, 1959, or Yenice Görüşmesi, Yenice Mülakatı) was a meeting between Turkish President İsmet İnönü and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill in a railway car parking on a storage track at Yenice, near Adana on 30–31 January 1943,30–31 Ocak 1943'te Adana'da, Yenice istasyonu'nda duran Cumhurbaşkanlığı özel treni içinde, Cumhurbaşkanı İnönü'nün başkanhgindaki Türk Heyeti ile Churchill ve yanındaki generallerle diplomatlardan oluşan İngiliz heyeti görüştüler., Erdal İnönü, Anılar ve Düşünceler, İdea, 1998, where Churchill tried to persuade İnönü to join the Allied powers and fight the Axis powers during World War II.Although the meeting was held in Yenice, a train station between Adana and Mersin, it is sometimes known as the Adana Meeting or Adana Conference because the nearest airport to the Yenice was in Adana, a city east of Yenice.

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Adana railway station

Adana station (Adana garı) is a railway station in Adana and one of the major railway hubs in Turkey.

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Adolf Marschall von Bieberstein

Adolf Freiherr Marschall von Bieberstein (12 October 1842 in Karlsruhe – 24 September 1912 in Badenweiler) was a German politician and State Secretary of the Foreign Office of the German Empire.

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Al-Muslimiyah

Al-Muslimiyah (المسلمية, also spelled Muslimiyeh, Moslemiye, Msalamiyyah or al-Musalmiya), commonly known as Mouslimié, is a village in northern Syria, administratively part of the Mount Simeon District of the Aleppo Governorate, located north of Aleppo.

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Al-Rai, Syria

Çobanbey (Çobanbey, جوبان باي) or Chobān Bayk (Chobān Bāyk) also known as Al-Rai (الراعي; al-Ra'i or al-Rayi), is a small town in northern Aleppo Governorate, northern Syria.

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Al-Yaarubiyah

Al-Yaarubiyah (اليعربية) (Tilkoçer) is a town in al-Hasakah Governorate, Syria.

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Aleppo

Aleppo (ﺣﻠﺐ / ALA-LC) is a city in Syria, serving as the capital of the Aleppo Governorate, the most-populous Syrian governorate.

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Aleppo railway station

Aleppo railway station (محطة قطار حلب) more commonly Gare de Baghdad (محطة بغداد) is the 2nd oldest railway station in Syria and the main station of the city of Aleppo.

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Alfred von Kiderlen-Waechter

Alfred von Kiderlen-Waechter (10 July 1852 – 30 December 1912, né Alfred Kiderlen) was a German diplomat and politician, who served as Secretary of State and head of the Foreign Office from 27 June 1910 to 30 December 1912.

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Anatolian Baghdad Railways

The Chemins de fer d'Anatolie Baghdad (Anadolu-Bağdat Demiryolları Müdüriyet-i Umumiyesi, Anatolian Baghdad Railway) was the first national railway company of the Republic of Turkey.

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Anglo-Ottoman Convention of 1913

The Anglo-Ottoman Convention of 1913 (29 July 1913) was an agreement between the Sublime Porte of the Ottoman Empire and the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland which defined the limits of Ottoman jurisdiction in the area of the Persian Gulf with respect to Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, and the Shatt al-‘Arab.

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Arıkören railway station

Arıkören station is a station in Arıkören, Çumra of Konya Province, Turkey, on the Konya-Yenice railway.

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Armenian Genocide

The Armenian Genocide (Հայոց ցեղասպանություն, Hayots tseghaspanutyun), also known as the Armenian Holocaust, was the Ottoman government's systematic extermination of 1.5 million Armenians, mostly citizens within the Ottoman Empire.

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Armin T. Wegner

Armin Theophil Wegner (October 16, 1886 – May 17, 1978) was a German soldier and medic in World War I, a prolific author, and a human rights activist.

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Aubrey Herbert

Colonel The Honourable Aubrey Nigel Henry Herbert (3 April 1880 – 26 September 1923) was a British diplomat, traveller, and intelligence officer associated with Albanian independence.

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Çumra railway station

Çumra station is a station in Çumra, Turkey, on the Konya-Yenice railway.

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İslahiye railway station

İslahiye station (İslahiye garı) is a railway station in İslahiye, Turkey.

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İzmir–Eğirdir railway

The İzmir–Eğirdir railway, commonly referred to as the Izmir-Aydın railway, is a main line in southwest Turkey.

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Şenyurt-Mardin railway

The Şenyurt-Mardin railway (Şenyurt-Mardin demiryolu), also known as the Mardin railway, is a railway in Southeastern Turkey.

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Bahçe, Osmaniye

Bahçe is a rural district and town of Osmaniye Province in the Mediterranean region of Turkey.

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Battle of Aleppo (1918)

The Battle of Aleppo was fought on 25 October 1918, when Prince Feisal's Sherifial Forces captured the city during the Pursuit to Haritan from Damascus, in the last days of the Sinai and Palestine Campaign in the First World War.

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Battle of Beersheba (1917)

The Battle of Beersheba (Birüssebi Muharebesi, Schlacht von Birüssebi)The several battles fought for the Gaza to Beersheba line between 31 October and 7 November were all assigned the title Third Battle of Gaza, although they took place many miles apart, and were fought by different corps.

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Battle of Kolubara

The Battle of Kolubara (Колубарска битка, Schlacht an der Kolubara) was a campaign fought between Austria-Hungary and Serbia in November and December 1914, during the Serbian Campaign of World War I. It commenced on 16 November, when the Austro-Hungarians under the command of Oskar Potiorek reached the Kolubara River during their third invasion of Serbia that year, having captured the strategic town of Valjevo and forced the Serbian Army to undertake a series of retreats.

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Battle of Kosturino

The Battle of Kosturino was a World War I battle, fought between 6 and 12 December 1915.

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Battle of Krivolak

The Battle of Krivolak.

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Bauhaus University, Weimar

The Bauhaus-Universität Weimar is a university located in Weimar, Germany and specializes in the artistic and technical fields.

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Belemedik

Belemedik is a small village in Adana Province, Turkey.

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Belemedik railway station

Belemedik railway station (Belemedik istasyonu) is a railway station in the village of Belemedik, Adana in Turkey.

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Bosporus Germans

Bosporus Germans are those ethnic Germans living and settled in Istanbul since the second half of the 19th century.

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Bostancı railway station

Bostancı railway station (Bostancı istasyonu) is a railway station in Kadıköy, Istanbul and is the easternmost station in the district.

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British currency in the Middle East

British involvement in the Middle East began with the Aden Settlement in 1839.

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Calouste Gulbenkian

Calouste Gulbenkian (Western Գալուստ Կիւլպէնկեան; 23 March 1869 – 20 July 1955) was a businessman and philanthropist of British nationality and Armenian origin.

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Carchemish

Carchemish, also spelled Karkemish (Hittite: Karkamiš; Turkish: Karkamış; Greek: Εὔρωπος; Latin: Europus), was an important ancient capital in the northern part of the region of Syria.

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Ceyhan

Ceyhan is a city and a district in the Adana Province, in southern Turkey, east of Adana.

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Charge at Haritan

The Charge at Haritan occurred on 26 October 1918 at the end of the Pursuit to Haritan during the final stages of the Sinai and Palestine Campaign of the First World War.

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Chemins de fer Ottomans d'Anatolie

The Chemins de Fer Ottomans d'Anatolie (Osmanlı Anadolu Demiryolları, Anatolian Railway), founded on 4 October 1888, was a railway company that operated in the Ottoman Empire.

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Chester concession

The Chester Concession, approved by the congress of the newly founded Republic of Turkey on April 10, 1923, allowed United States development of oil and railways.

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Cilician Gates

The Cilician Gates or Gülek Pass is a pass through the Taurus Mountains connecting the low plains of Cilicia to the Anatolian Plateau, by way of the narrow gorge of the Gökoluk River.

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CIOB

CIOB may stand for the following.

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Demirköprü (bridge)

Demirköprü (literally iron bridge) is a railway bridge spanning the Seyhan River in Adana.

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Deutsche Bank

Deutsche Bank AG is a German investment bank and financial services company headquartered in Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany.

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Dissolution of the Ottoman Empire

The period of the defeat and end of the Ottoman Empire (1908–1922) began with the Second Constitutional Era with the Young Turk Revolution.

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Durak railway station

Durak railway station (Durak istasyonu) is a railway station in the Mersin Province of Turkey.

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Eastern Question

In diplomatic history, the "Eastern Question" refers to the strategic competition and political considerations of the European Great Powers in light of the political and economic instability in the Ottoman Empire from the late 18th to early 20th centuries.

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Eduard Sachau

Carl Eduard Sachau (20 July 1845 – 17 September 1930) was a German orientalist.

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Edward FitzGerald Law

Sir Edward FitzGerald Law KCMG, KCSI (2 November 1846 – 2 November 1908) was a British diplomat and expert in state finance.

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Eskişehir

Eskişehir (eski "old", şehir "city"), is a city in northwestern Turkey and the capital of the Eskişehir Province. In the Byzantine era its name was Dorylaeum. The urban population of the city is 717,135 with a metropolitan population of 826,135. The city is located on the banks of the Porsuk River, 792 m above sea level, where it overlooks the fertile Phrygian Valley. In the nearby hills one can find hot springs. The city is to the west of Ankara, to the southeast of Istanbul and to the northeast of Kütahya. Known as a university town, both Eskişehir Osmangazi University and Anadolu University (which has one of the largest student enrollments in the world) are based in Eskişehir. The province covers an area of.

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Fireless locomotive

A fireless locomotive is a type of locomotive which uses reciprocating engines powered from a reservoir of compressed air or steam, which is filled at intervals from an external source.

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Friedrich Schrader

Friedrich Schrader (November 19, 1865 – August 28, 1922) was a German philologist of oriental languages, orientalist, art historian, writer, social democrat, translator and journalist.

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Gaziantep railway station

Gaziantep station is a station in Gaziantep, southeastern Turkey.

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Göztepe, Kadıköy

Göztepe is a neighborhood in Kadiköy district of Istanbul, Turkey.

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Georg von Siemens

Georg von Siemens (21 October 1839 – 23 October 1901) was a German banker and liberal politician.

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George Lloyd, 1st Baron Lloyd

George Ambrose Lloyd, 1st Baron Lloyd, (19 September 1879 – 4 February 1941) was a British Conservative politician strongly associated with the "Diehard" wing of the party.

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German Empire

The German Empire (Deutsches Kaiserreich, officially Deutsches Reich),Herbert Tuttle wrote in September 1881 that the term "Reich" does not literally connote an empire as has been commonly assumed by English-speaking people.

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Germanism (linguistics)

A Germanism is a loan word or other loan element borrowed from German for use in some other language.

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Germany–Turkey relations

German–Turkish relations have their beginnings in the times of the Ottoman Empire and have culminated in the development of strong bonds with many facets that include economic, military, cultural and social relations.

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Germany–United Kingdom relations

Germany–United Kingdom relations, or Anglo–German relations, are the bilateral relations between the United Kingdom and Germany.

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Guenter Lewy

Guenter Lewy (born August 22, 1923) is a German-born American author and political scientist who is a professor emeritus of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

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Hacıkırı railway station

Hacıkırı railway station (Hacıkırı istasyonu) is a railway station in the village of Kiralan, Adana in Turkey.

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Haydarpaşa railway station

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

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Heinrich August Meissner

Heinrich August Meissner (Heinrich August Meißner, January 3, 1862 – January 14, 1940) was a German engineer who was largely responsible for the railway network in the Ottoman Empire, and later helped manage the network in Turkey.

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Hejaz railway

The Hejaz (or Hedjaz) railway (Hicaz Demiryolu) was a narrow-gauge railway (track gauge) that ran from Damascus to Medina, through the Hejaz region of Saudi Arabia, with a branch line to Haifa on the Mediterranean Sea.

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History of Germany

The concept of Germany as a distinct region in central Europe can be traced to Roman commander Julius Caesar, who referred to the unconquered area east of the Rhine as Germania, thus distinguishing it from Gaul (France), which he had conquered.

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History of rail transport in Turkey

The history of rail transport in Turkey began with the start of the placement in 1856 of a railway line between Izmir and Aydın.

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History of the Ottoman Empire

The Ottoman Empire was founded by Osman I. As sultan Mehmed II conquered Constantinople (today named Istanbul) in 1453, the state grew into a mighty empire.

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HMS E11

HMS E11 was an E-class submarine of the Royal Navy launched on 23 April 1914.

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Iraq Petroleum Company

The Iraq Petroleum Company (IPC), known prior to 1929 as the Turkish Petroleum Company (TPC), is an oil company which, between 1925 and 1961, had a virtual monopoly on all oil exploration and production in Iraq.

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Iraqi Republic Railways

Iraqi Republic Railways Company (IRR) (الشركة العامة لسكك الحديد العراقية) is the national railway operator in Iraq.

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Iraqi State Railways PC class

The PC class was a type of standard gauge passenger steam locomotive on Iraqi State Railways.

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Istanbul

Istanbul (or or; İstanbul), historically known as Constantinople and Byzantium, is the most populous city in Turkey and the country's economic, cultural, and historic center.

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Jarabulus

Jarabulus (جرابلس / ALA-LC: Jarābulus; Cerablus, North Syrian Arabic: Jrāblos), is a Syrian city administratively belonging to Aleppo Governorate.

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John Baptist Wolf

John Baptiste Wolf (July 16, 1907 – April 22, 1996) was a historian, specializing in modern European history.

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July 1903

The following events occurred in July 1903.

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July 1914

The following events occurred in July 1914.

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Kaşınhanı railway station

Kaşınhanı railway station is a station in Kaşınhanı, Konya on the Konya-Adana railway.

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Kadıköy

Kadıköy (in Byzantine Chalcedon, in Χαλκηδών), is a large, populous, and cosmopolitan district in the Asian side of Istanbul, Turkey on the northern shore of the Sea of Marmara, facing the historic city centre on the European side of the Bosporus.

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Kafr Khasher

Kafr Khasher (كفر خاشر) is a village in northern Aleppo Governorate, northwestern Syria.

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Karkamış

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Karkamış Bridge

The Karkamış Bridge (Karkamış Köprüsü) is a Parker-truss bridge carrying the Çobanbey-Nusaybin railway across the Euphrates in southeastern Turkey.

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Karl Helfferich

Karl Theodor Helfferich (22 July 1872 – 23 April 1924) was a German politician, economist, and financier from Neustadt an der Weinstraße in the Palatinate.

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Kartal railway station

Kartal railway station (Kartal istasyonu) is a railway station in Kartal, Istanbul.

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Kobanî

Kobanî (also rendered Kobanê, كوباني, ܟܘܒܐܢܝ), officially Ayn al-Arab (عين العرب), is a city in the Aleppo Governorate in northern Syria, lying immediately south of the border with Turkey.

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Kuwait–Russia relations

Kuwait–Russia relations is the bilateral relationship between the two countries, Kuwait and Russia.

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Leonard Woolley

Sir Charles Leonard Woolley (17 April 1880 – 20 February 1960) was a British archaeologist best known for his excavations at Ur in Mesopotamia.

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List of divided cities

A divided city is one which, as a consequence of political changes or border shifts, currently constitutes (or once constituted) two separate entities, or an urban area with a border running through it.

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List of Heidelberg University people

Alumni and faculty of the university include many founders and pioneers of academic disciplines, and a large number of internationally acclaimed philosophers, poets, jurisprudents, theologians, natural and social scientists.

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List of people associated with rail transport

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List of railway lines in Turkey

This is a list of railway lines made within the borders of present-day Turkey since 1860.

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List of Turkish railways

The following railways operate or operated in Anatolia, Turkey and in former lands of the Ottoman Empire.

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Macedonian Front

The Macedonian Front, also known as the Salonica Front (after Thessaloniki), was a military theatre of World War I formed as a result of an attempt by the Allied Powers to aid Serbia, in the fall of 1915, against the combined attack of Germany, Austria-Hungary and Bulgaria.

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Manfred Pohl

Professor Manfred Pohl is a German business historian.

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Maraanaz

Maraanaz (Mir'anāz) is a village near Azaz in northwestern Aleppo Governorate of northern Syria.

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March 1903

The following events occurred in March 1903.

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Max von Oppenheim

Max (Freiherr) von Oppenheim (15 July 1860 in Cologne – 17 November 1946 in Landshut) was a German lawyer, diplomat, ancient historian, and archaeologist.

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Meidan Ekbis

Meidan Ekbis (ميدان اكبس) or Maydan Ikbis is a town in northern Syria, administratively part of the Afrin District of Aleppo Governorate, located north of Aleppo.

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Menagh

Menagh (منق, also spelled Manaq or Manq) is a town near Azaz 16km North of Aleppo in northwestern Aleppo Governorate of northern Syria.

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Mersin railway station

Mersin station (Mersin istasyonu) is the main railway station in the city of Mersin, Turkey.

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Mesopotamian campaign

The Mesopotamian campaign was a campaign in the Middle Eastern theatre of World War I fought between the Allies represented by the British Empire, mostly troops from Britain, Australia and the British Indian, and the Central Powers, mostly of the Ottoman Empire.

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Modern history

Modern history, the modern period or the modern era, is the linear, global, historiographical approach to the time frame after post-classical history.

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Mubarak Al-Sabah

Sheikh Mubarak bin Sabah Al-Sabah, KCSI, KCIE (1837 – November 28, 1915) (الشيخ مبارك بن صباح الصباح) "the Great" was the seventh ruler of Kuwait from May 18, 1896 until his death on November 28, 1915.

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Narrow-gauge railways in Turkey

There are currently no common-carrier narrow-gauge railways in Turkey.

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New Order (Nazism)

The New Order (German: Neuordnung), or the New Order of Europe (German: Neuordnung Europas), was the political order which Nazi Germany wanted to impose on the conquered areas under its dominion.

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Niğde railway station

Niğde railway station (Niğde garı) is a railway station in Niğde, Turkey.

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Niedermayer–Hentig Expedition

The Niedermayer–Hentig Expedition was a diplomatic mission to Afghanistan sent by the Central Powers in 1915–1916.

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Nusaybin

Nusaybin (Akkadian: Naṣibina; Classical Greek: Νίσιβις, Nisibis; نصيبين., Kurdish: Nisêbîn; ܢܨܝܒܝܢ, Nṣībīn; Armenian: Մծբին, Mtsbin) is a city and multiple titular see in Mardin Province, Turkey.

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Nusaybin railway station

Nusaybin station is a railway station in the town of Nusaybin in Turkey next to the Turkey–Syria border.

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Ottoman Bank

The Ottoman Bank (Osmanlı Bankası) (formerly Imperial Ottoman Bank, Bank-ı Osmanî-i Şahane) was founded in 1856 in the Galata business section of Istanbul, the capital of the Ottoman Empire, as a joint venture between British interests, the Banque de Paris et des Pays-Bas of France, and the Ottoman government.

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Ottoman entry into World War I

The Ottoman Empire's entry into World War I began when its navy carried out a surprise attack on Russia's Black Sea coast on 29 October 1914, following which Russia declared war on it on 1 November 1914.

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Ottoman railways

Ottoman railways may refer to.

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Palestine Railways

| Palestine Railways was a government-owned railway company that ran all public railways in the League of Nations mandate territory of Palestine from 1920 until 1948.

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Paul Kennedy

Paul Michael Kennedy (born 17 June 1945) is a British historian specialising in the history of international relations, economic power and grand strategy.

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Petroleum industry in Iraq

Iraq was the world’s 12th largest oil producer in 2009, and has the world’s fifth largest proven petroleum reserves after Venezuela, Saudi Arabia, Canada, and Iran.

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Philipp Holzmann

Philipp Holzmann AG was a German construction company based in Frankfurt am Main.

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Philipp, Prince of Eulenburg

Philipp Friedrich Alexander, Prince of Eulenburg and Hertefeld, Count von Sandels (12 February 1847 – 17 September 1921) was a diplomat and composer of Imperial Germany who achieved considerable influence as the closest friend of Wilhelm II.

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Port of Haydarpaşa

The Port of Haydarpaşa, also known as the Port of Haidar Pasha (Haydarpaşa Limanı) is a general cargo seaport, ro-ro and container terminal, situated in Haydarpaşa, Istanbul, Turkey at the southern entrance to the Bosphorus.

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Pozantı railway station

Pozantı railway station (Pozantı istasyonu) is a railway station in the town of Pozantı, Turkey.

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Prussian G 8

The Prussian Class G 8 locomotives were eight-coupled, superheated, freight locomotives operated by the Prussian state railways.

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Pursuit to Haritan

The Pursuit to Haritan occurred between 29 September and 26 October 1918 when the XXI Corps and Desert Mounted Corps of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force (EEF) pursued the retreating remnants of the Yildirim Army Group advanced north from Damascus after that city was captured on 1 October during the final weeks of the Sinai and Palestine Campaign of the First World War.

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Rabia, Iraq

Rabia (Arabic: ربيعة) is a town in the north-west of Iraq, near the border crossing to the town of Al-Yarubiyah in Syria.

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Raid on the Beersheba to Hafir el Auja railway

The Raid on the Beersheba to Hafir el Auja railway took place on 23 May 1917 after the Second Battle of Gaza and before the Battle of Beersheba during the Stalemate in Southern Palestine in the Sinai and Palestine Campaign of World War I. Substantial sections of the Ottoman railway line which ran south from Beersheba to Hafir el Auja were attacked and demolished by working parties of the Royal Engineers of the Anzac and Imperial Mounted Divisions and the Imperial Camel Corps Brigade reinforced with men from the 1st Light Horse Brigade.

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Rail transport in Israel

Rail transport in Israel includes heavy rail (inter-city, commuter, and freight rail) as well as light rail.

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Rail transport in Lebanon

Rail transport in Lebanon began in the 1890s as French projects under the Ottoman Empire but largely ceased in the 1970s owing to the country's civil war.

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Rajo, Syria

Rajo (راجو, Reco) or Raju is a town in Afrin District, Aleppo Governorate, northwestern Syria.

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Ras al-Ayn

Ras al-Ayn (Raʾs al-ʿAyn, Resülayn, Serê Kaniyê, Rēš Aynā), also spelled Ras al-Ain, is a city in al-Hasakah Governorate in northeastern Syria, on the border with Turkey.

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Royal Road

The Royal Road was an ancient highway, part of the Silk Road and the Uttara Path built in ancient South Asia and Central Asia, reorganized and rebuilt by the Persian king Darius the Great (Darius I) of the first (Achaemenid) Persian Empire in the 5th century BCE.

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Sergey Sazonov

Sergei Dmitryevich Sazonov GCB (Russian: Сергей Дмитриевич Сазонов; 10 August 1860 in Ryazan Governorate 25 December 1927) was a Russian statesman and diplomat who served as Foreign Minister from November 1910 to July 1916.

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Sijaraz

Sijraz (سيجراز) is a village in northern Aleppo Governorate, northwestern Syria.

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Southern Railway (Turkey)

The Cenup Demiryolları (Chemins de fer du Sud de la Turquie, Southern Railways) was the name of the railway operating former Baghdad Railway trackage in Turkey from 1933 to 1948.

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Sykes–Picot Agreement

The Sykes–Picot Agreement, officially known as the Asia Minor Agreement, was a secret 1916 agreement between the United Kingdom and France, to which the Russian Empire assented.

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Syria–Turkey border

The border between the Syrian Arab Republic and the Republic of Turkey is about long.

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Syrian Railways

General Establishment of Syrian Railways (المؤسسة العامة للخطوط الحديدية, Chemins de fer syriens, CFS) is the national railway operator for the state of Syria, subordinate to the Ministry of Transportation.

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Tarsus railway station

Tarsus station (Tarsus İstasyonu) is a railway station in the city of Tarsus. Tarsus is a city in Mersin Province, Turkey. (population 238276 as of 2010).

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Taurus Express

The Taurus Express (Toros Ekspresi) is an overnight train operating between Eskişehir and Adana.

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Tell Halaf

Tell Halaf (تل حلف) is an archaeological site in the Al Hasakah governorate of northeastern Syria, near the Turkish border, just opposite Ceylanpınar.

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The Berlin-Baghdad Express

The Berlin-Baghdad Express: The Ottoman Empire and Germany’s Bid for World Power is a book by Sean McMeekin, first published in 2010.

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Tigris

Batman River The Tigris (Sumerian: Idigna or Idigina; Akkadian: 𒁇𒄘𒃼; دجلة Dijlah; ܕܹܩܠܵܬ.; Տիգրիս Tigris; Դգլաթ Dglatʿ;, biblical Hiddekel) is the eastern member of the two great rivers that define Mesopotamia, the other being the Euphrates.

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Timeline of Aleppo

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Aleppo, Syria.

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Timeline of Istanbul

The following is a timeline of the history of the town of Istanbul, Turkey.

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Timeline of the 20th century

This is a timeline of the 20th century.

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Toprakkale–İskendurun railway

The Toprakkale–Iskendurun railway (Toprakkale–İskendurun railway) is a long electrified railway in southern Turkey.

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Trade route

A trade route is a logistical network identified as a series of pathways and stoppages used for the commercial transport of cargo.

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Trans-Anatolian railway

The Trans-Anatolian Railway is the unofficial name for a series of railway lines crossing Anatolia in Turkey.

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Trans-Iranian Railway

The Trans-Iranian Railway (Persian: راه آهن سراسری ایران) was a major railway building project started in 1927 and completed in 1938, under the direction of the Persian monarch, Reza Shah, and entirely with indigenous capital.

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Transcontinental railroad

A transcontinental railroad is a contiguous network of railroad trackage that crosses a continental land mass with terminals at different oceans or continental borders.

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Transport in the Arab League

Transport in the Arab League is considered fairly undeveloped.

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Treaty of Ankara

The Ankara Agreement (or the Accord of Ankara; Franklin-Bouillon Agreement; Franco-Turkish Agreement of Ankara, Turkish: Ankara Anlaşması French: Traité d'Ankara) was signed on 20 October 1921"Ankara, Treaty of" in The New Encyclopædia Britannica.

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Treaty of Sèvres

The Treaty of Sèvres (Traité de Sèvres) was one of a series of treaties that the Central Powers signed after their defeat in World War I. Hostilities had already ended with the Armistice of Mudros.

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Triple Entente

The Triple Entente (from French entente "friendship, understanding, agreement") refers to the understanding linking the Russian Empire, the French Third Republic, and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland after the signing of the Anglo-Russian Entente on 31 August 1907.

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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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Ulukışla railway station

Ulukışla railway station (Ulukışla istasyonu) is a railway station in Ulukışla, Turkey.

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Ur

Ur (Sumerian: Urim; Sumerian Cuneiform: KI or URIM5KI; Akkadian: Uru; أور; אור) was an important Sumerian city-state in ancient Mesopotamia, located at the site of modern Tell el-Muqayyar (تل المقير) in south Iraq's Dhi Qar Governorate.

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Varda Viaduct

The Varda Viaduct (Varda Köprüsü), aka Giaour Dere Viaduct, locally known as "Alman Köprüsü" or "Koca Köprü" (literally: German Viaduct or Big Viaduct), is a railway viaduct situated at Hacıkırı (Kıralan) village in Karaisalı district of Adana Province in southern Turkey.

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Wilhelm II, German Emperor

Wilhelm II (Friedrich Wilhelm Viktor Albert von Hohenzollern; 27 January 18594 June 1941) was the last German Emperor (Kaiser) and King of Prussia, ruling the German Empire and the Kingdom of Prussia from 15 June 1888 to 9 November 1918.

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Wilhelm von Pressel

Wilhelm von Pressel (1821–1902) was a German official and railway engineer to the Ottoman Empire who attempted to acquire funding for the Baghdad Railway.

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Witnesses and testimonies of the Armenian Genocide

Witnesses and testimony of the Armenian Genocide provide an important and valuable insight into the events during and after the Armenian Genocide.

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1903

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1903 in rail transport

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1904 in rail transport

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1914 in rail transport

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1940 in rail transport

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4-6-2

Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives, represents the wheel arrangement of four leading wheels on two axles, six powered and coupled driving wheels on three axles and two trailing wheels on one axle.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin–Baghdad_railway

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