Grant of the Baghdad Railway Concession
- When
- 1899
- Where
- Grant location not stated in supplied passages; legacy row indicates Constantinople
In 1899 the Ottoman Empire granted Deutsche Bank the concession for a Berlin-Baghdad railway, after the Ministry of Public Works received many competing applications in 1898 and 1899.
In 1898 and 1899 the Ottoman Ministry of Public Works received many applications for permission to construct a railway to Baghdad. The Deutsche Bank was finally awarded the concession, and the passages state this was not because of a lack of competition. In 1899, a significant German wish, the construction of a Berlin-Baghdad railway, was granted. The passages do not name the city where the grant was made; the Constantinople attribution rests on the legacy row and is treated as uncertain.
Sources
- Berlin–Baghdad railway Wikipedia, revision of 2026-10-08
- Abdul Hamid II Wikipedia, revision of 2026-09-29
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