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Baghdad Railway

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Baghdad Railway railroad of international importance linking Europe with Asia Minor and the Middle East. The line runs from Istanbul, Turkey, to Basra, Iraq; it connected what were distant regions of the Ottoman Empire . The railroad was initially financed chiefly by German capital; its Anatolian sections were completed in 1896. The ambitious project was then formed to extend the railroad to Baghdad, and a company, again backed chiefly by German capital, was organized for the purpose. Immediate protests were made to Turkey by France, Russia, and, particularly, Great Britain, which saw in the... Read more
Berlin–Baghdad railway
Berlin–Baghdad railway An enterprise to build a railway from Baghdad to Constantinople (which was connected to Berlin by...tactful, and successful. After many interruptions the railway was finally completed in 1940. Read more
Muhammad V
...Tripoli to Italy in 1911-12. Germany gained increasing influence over Turkish affairs, resuming the construction of the Baghdad Railway in 1911. Muhammad sided with the Central Powers in World War I. He died shortly before the Turkish surrender and... Read more

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