Société du Chemin de fer Cilicie - North Syrie

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The Société du Chemin de fer Cilicie - Nord Syrie (CNS) was a French railway company that operated routes in southern Turkey and northern Syria .

After the defeat of the Ottoman Empire in World War I , a significant part of what would later become the national territory of Turkey was occupied by Allied troops. The southeast of the country, along with Syria, came under French sovereignty.

The French occupying power set up its own company, the Société du Chemin de fer Cilicie - Nord Syrie , for the standard-gauge lines falling within their occupied territory that did not belong to the Société du Chemins de fer Damas - Hama et Prolongements (DHP) . October 20, 1921, the operating rights went to the Baghdad Railway between Pozantı in Taurus and Nusaybin (821 km) and the branch paths to Mersin (49 km), İskenderun (59.6 km) and Mardin (25 km) to the Treaty of Ankara on this over. A little later, it was renamed Société d'Exploitation des Chemins de fer Bozanti - Alep - Nissibie et Prolongements (BANP).

In 1933 the Turkish state railway, the Türkiye Cumhuriyeti Devlet Demiryolları (TCDD), took over the Baghdad Railway to Fevzipaşa . The BANP was then dissolved on July 1, 1933. It was replaced by the (Turkish) Cenup Demiryolları (CD) for the remaining routes on Turkish territory that had not (yet) been taken over by the TCDD . The French-Syrian company Société du Chemin de fer Damas-Hamah et Prolongements (DHP) became the operator on these routes

literature

  • Benno Bickel, Bagdad Railway Timeline , in: Jürgen Franzke (Ed.): Bagdad Railway and Hedjaz Railway. German railway history in the Middle East , Nuremberg 2003. ( ISBN 3-921590-05-1 ), pp. 160–162.