Baghdad Railway



The Berlin-Baghdad Railway, also known as the Baghdad Railway (Turkish:Bağdat Demiryolu, German:Bagdadbahn, French:Chemin de Fer Impérial Ottoman de Bagdad), was built from 1903 to 1940 to connect Berlin with the (then) Ottoman Empire city of Baghdad, where the Germans wanted to establish a port in the Persian Gulf, with a 1,600 kilometres (1,000 mi) line through modern-day Turkey, Syria, and Iraq.