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The Ottoman Porte grants Hirsch the Constantinople–Vienna railway concession

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Baron Maurice de Hirsch receives a concession to build and operate roughly 2,500 km of main and branch lines linking Constantinople to Vienna, with the Ottoman state guaranteeing a fixed payment per completed kilometre. Construction begins in January 1870 at four points at once — Constantinople, Dedeağaç, Salonica and Dobrljin — which is how a railway gets built across a mountainous province with no single continuous work front. This is the enabling act for everything that follows; the Orient Express is a service on this track, fourteen years later.

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  1. Story
  2. Baron Maurice de Hirsch receives a concession to build and operate roughly 2,500 km of main and branch lines linking Constantinople to Vienna, with the Ottoman state guaranteeing a fixed payment per completed kilometre. Construction begins in January 1870 at four points at once — Constantinople, Dedeağaç, Salonica and Dobrljin — which is how a railway gets built across a mountainous province with no single continuous work front. This is the enabling act for everything that follows; the Orient Express is a service on this track, fourteen years later.
  3. Knowledge
  4. Chemins de fer Orientaux (Oriental Railway)
  5. The Balkans
  6. Baron Maurice de Hirsch
  7. The Ottoman Porte grants Hirsch the Constantinople–Vienna railway concession
  8. Connections
  9. Baron Maurice de Hirsch
  10. Chemins de fer Orientaux (Oriental Railway)
  11. The Balkans
  12. Chemins de fer Orientaux (Oriental Railway)
  13. The Ottoman Porte grants Hirsch the Constantinople–Vienna railway concession
  14. Orient Express
  15. Baron Maurice de Hirsch
  16. The Balkans
  17. The Ottoman Porte grants Hirsch the Constantinople–Vienna railway concession
  18. First through Paris–Constantinople run entirely by rail
  19. Sirkeci Terminal opens as the European terminus at Constantinople
  20. Orient Express
  21. Chemins de fer Orientaux (Oriental Railway)
  22. The Ottoman Porte grants Hirsch the Constantinople–Vienna railway concession
  23. The first Express d'Orient leaves the Gare de l'Est
  24. First through Paris–Constantinople run entirely by rail
  25. The Simplon Orient Express takes the southern route
  26. Evidence
  27. Supports the 17 April 1869 Ottoman concession to Baron Maurice de Hirsch for c. 2,500 km of line linking Constantinople and Vienna, the 1870 founding of the Chemins de fer Orientaux, simultaneous construction starts at Constantinople, Dedeağaç, Salonica and Dobrljin in January 1870, and the 1871 renegotiation. V55 verification basis: an independent documented history rather than an archive; substance carried in attributed search results, PDF not retrieved.
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