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Ministry of Transportation (Bahrain)

Bahrani ministry

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 13, 2026
Entity authorityQ16966394 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Ministry of Transportation and Telecommunications is a government ministry of Bahrain. It is headquartered on the 9th, 32nd, and 33rd floors of the East Tower of Bahrain Financial Harbour in Manama. The ministry was previously called the Ministry of Transportation from its establishment on August 25, 1975 until its abolition on December 11, 2006. On February 12, 2012, the ministry was re-established, with the Ministry of Communications being incorporated into it, and the name of the ministry became the Ministry of Transportation and Telecommunications.

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The public source identifies “Ministry of Transportation (Bahrain)” as bahrani ministry. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Ministry, Transportation and Bahrain.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1975, 2006, 2012—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Ministry, Transportation and Bahrain providing the first useful test.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 13, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q16966394. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1975, 2006 and 2012.

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This entry incorporates text from “Ministry of Transportation (Bahrain)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.