Bandar-e Torkaman
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| Country: |
 Iran
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| Province : | Golestan (Province) | ||
| Coordinates : | 36 ° 54 ' N , 54 ° 4' E | ||
| Residents : | 49,059 (2012) | ||
| Time zone : | UTC +3: 30 | ||
Bandar-e Torkaman ( Persian بندری تورخومان) is a port city in Iran in the Golestan Province on the Caspian Sea .
Geographical location
Bandar-e Torkaman has almost 50,000 inhabitants and was called Bandar-e Shah until the Islamic Revolution in 1979 .
From here you can reach the island of Ashūradeh , located about three kilometers northwest in the Caspian Sea .
traffic
Remains of the loading bridge from the Second World War
Since 1931 the city had a connection to the railway, since 1938 it was the northern end point of the Trans-Iranian Railway , which was extended from here in 1960 by 36 km to Gorgan . During World War II, Bandar-e Shah was an important transshipment point for US supplies for the Soviet Union from the Persian Gulf , which arrived by rail and were loaded onto freighters here.
Web links
- Bandar-e Šāh . In: Ehsan Yarshater (Ed.): Encyclopædia Iranica (English, including references)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original dated December 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Manfred Pohl: Philipp Holzmann. History of a construction company 1849–1999. Munich 1999, p. 189.
- ↑ Johannes Heger: The unofficial Homepage of the Iranian Railways ( Memento of the original from December 7, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
