Chemins de fer Orientaux was an Ottoman railway company chartered in 1870 to build and operate lines across the Balkans and European Turkey, headquartered successively in Paris, then Vienna from 1878, and then Istanbul from 1912. It built the main trunk line connecting Istanbul to Vienna, completed in 1888, and from 1889 to 1937 its network carried the famous Orient Express. The company continued operating as a regional railway until 1937, when the Turkish State Railways absorbed it and its remaining network was divided among successor national operators including the Turkish State Railways, the Serbian Railways, the Bulgarian State Railways and the Hellenic State Railways.
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Source Wikidata: Chemins de fer Orientaux
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- Also in Geography Atlas: Istanbul, located there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: Vienna, located there.
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1. Wikidata: Chemins de fer Orientaux
WikidataWikidata item description
Paris-based company that built and operated the railway lines in the Ottoman Empire's European territories
Wikidata statement: inception (P571)
inception: 1879
Wikidata statement: dissolved, abolished or demolished date (P576)
dissolved, abolished or demolished date: 1937
Wikidata statement: instance of (P31), value 2
instance of: railway line
Wikidata statement: instance of (P31), value 1
instance of: railway company
Operates In: Railroad Industry, Wikidata statement: industry (P452)
industry (P452) target Q3565868, matched to the live industry entity "Railroad Industry" by qid (enwiki-sitelink resolved)
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