subclass_of tcdd dh44100
Deutsche Bahn AG ( abbreviated as " DB ", " DB AG " or " DBAG ") is a ___MASK89___ ___MASK60___ . Headquartered in Berlin , it is a ___MASK68___ joint - stock company ( AG ), with the Federal Republic of Germany being its single shareholder . Deutsche Bahn describes itself as the ___MASK49___ - largest transport company in the world , after the ___MASK89___ postal and logistics company Deutsche Post / DHL , and is the largest railway operator and infrastructure owner in Europe . It carries about two billion passengers each year . Ankara ( ; ), formerly known as Ancyra and Angora , is the ___MASK78___ of the Republic of Turkey . With a population of 4 , 587 , 558 in the urban center and 5 , 150 , 072 in its province , it is Turkey ' s ___MASK49___ largest city after Istanbul . The ___MASK89___ reunification was the ___MASK43___ in 1990 in which the ___MASK89___ Democratic ___MASK99___ ( GDR / East Germany ) joined the Federal ___MASK99___ of Germany ( FRG / West Germany ) to form the reunited nation of Germany , and when Berlin reunited into a ___MASK42___ city , as provided by its then Grundgesetz constitution Article 23 . The end of the unification ___MASK43___ is officially referred to as ___MASK89___ unity , celebrated on 3 October ( ___MASK89___ Unity Day ). Following ___MASK89___ reunification , Berlin was once again designated as the capital of united Germany . The Ottoman Empire ('; Modern ___MASK75___ : ' or '), also known as the ___MASK75___ Empire , Ottoman Turkey , was an empire founded at the end of the thirteenth century in northwestern Anatolia in the vicinity of Bilecik and Söüt by the Oghuz ___MASK75___ tribal leader Osman . After 1354 , the Ottomans crossed into Europe , and with the conquest of the Balkans the Ottoman Beylik was transformed into a transcontinental empire . The Ottomans ended the Byzantine Empire with the 1453 conquest of Constantinople by Mehmed the Conqueror . The Deutsche Bundesbahn or DB ( ___MASK89___ Federal Railway ) was formed as the ___MASK65___ railway of the newly established Federal Republic of Germany ( FRG ) on 7 September 1949 as a successor of the Deutsche Reichsbahn - Gesellschaft ( DRG ). The DB remained the ___MASK65___ railway of West Germany until after ___MASK89___ reunification , when it was merged with the former East ___MASK89___ Deutsche Reichsbahn ( DR ) to form Deutsche Bahn AG , which came into existence on 1 January 1994 . Kiel is the ___MASK78___ and most populous ___MASK86___ in the northern German state of Schleswig - Holstein , with a population of 240 , 832 ( June 2014 ). DH44100 was a series of six diesel - hydraulic shunters bought by the ___MASK75___ State Railways from Maschinenbau Kiel in 1955 . The units were very close to the DB Class V 65 used by Deutsche Bundesbahn . A diesel ___MASK13___ is a type of railway ___MASK13___ in which the prime mover is a diesel engine . Several types of diesel ___MASK13___ have been developed , differing mainly in the means by which mechanical power is conveyed to the driving wheels ( drivers ). The DB ___MASK76___ V 65 locomotives ( from 1968 : ___MASK76___ 265 ) were German , eight - wheeled , ___MASK32___ - coupled diesel locomotives operated by Deutsche Bundesbahn ( DB ) intended for light railway services and medium - heavy shunting duties . The 15 locomotives were delivered in 1956 by MaK ( Kiel ) to the DB . The ___MASK65___ Railways of the ___MASK75___ Republic or TCDD is the government - owned national railway carrier in the Republic of Turkey , headquartered in Ankara . The TCDD was formed on 1 June 1927 by the ___MASK75___ government to take over the administration of the existing rail lines within the borders of the Republic of Turkey after the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire , and to build new ones . Maschinenbau Kiel GmbH designed , manufactured and marketed marine diesel engines , diesel locomotives and tracked vehicles under the MaK ___MASK44___ name . The three primary operating divisions of Maschinenbau Kiel GmbH were sold to different companies in the 1990s .