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Wikipedia: The Baghdad Railway, built from 1903 to 1940, was planned 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. Funding and engineering was mainly provided by German Empire banks and companies, which in the 1890s had built the Anatolian Railway (Anatolische Eisenbahn) connecting Istanbul, Ankara and Konya. Completion of the Baghdad railway would have connected Berlin and Baghdad, from where the Germans attempted to establish a port at the Persian Gulf.
![[The Baghdad Railway passes varied landscapes: The plains north of Aleppo, Syria]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Bagdadbahn_n_C3_B6rdlich_von_Aleppo_s.jpg "The Baghdad Railway passes varied landscapes: The plains north of Aleppo, Syria")
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![[Bagdad-Railway Station, Aleppo, Syria]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Aleppo_Bagdad_Railway_Station_s.jpg "Bagdad-Railway Station, Aleppo, Syria")
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 from Reinhard Dietrich |
 from Reinhard Dietrich |
![[Railway Station Mouslimie, Syria]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/26_05_Bf_Mouslimie_s.jpg "Railway Station Mouslimie, Syria")
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![[Railway Station Adana, Turkey]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Bahnhof_Adana_s.jpg "Railway Station Adana, Turkey")
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from Reinhard Dietrich |
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