The Chemins de fer Ottomans d'Anatolie, or Anatolian Railway, was a railway company that operated in the Ottoman Empire from its establishment in 1888, headquartered in Istanbul and owned by Deutsche Bank through a Swiss subsidiary. It built and ran the busiest rail network in the Ottoman Empire, linking Istanbul with Ankara, Konya and several branch lines across central Anatolia, and it also managed the ports of Haydarpaşa and Derince, primarily to move grain from the interior. Turkish nationalist forces took control after the First World War, and the company was formally absorbed into Turkish State Railways in 1927.
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1. Wikidata: Chemins de fer Ottomans d'Anatolie
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railway company
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inception: 1888
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dissolved, abolished or demolished date: 1924
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The Chemins de Fer Ottomans d'Anatolie (Turkish: Osmanlı Anadolu Demiryolları, English: Anatolian Railway), founded on 4 October 1888, was a railway company that operated in the Ottoman Empire.
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