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 Per
Baghdad railway c. 1900–10
Share of the Baghdad railway, issued 31 December 1903
Central Station in Adana, Turkey, 1913
Baghdad Central Station, 2012
Philipp Holzmann
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Philipp Holzmann AG was a German construction company based in Frankfurt am Main.
Berlin–Baghdad railway
…Istanbul to Baghdad departed in 1940. Funding, engineering and construction were mainly provided by the German Empire through Deutsche Bank and the Philipp Holzmann company, which in the 1890s had built the Anatolian Railway (Anatolische Eisenbahn) connecting Istanbul, Ankara and Konya. The Ottoman Empire wished…
Philipp Holzmann warehouse in Frankfurt am Main in 1875
The Frankfurter Büro Center which was built by Philipp Holzmann