• Transjordan may refer to: Transjordan (region), an area to the east of the Jordan River Oultrejordain, a Crusader lordship (1118–1187), also called Transjordan...
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  • Transjordan, the East Bank, or the Transjordanian Highlands (Arabic: شرق الأردن), is the part of the Southern Levant east of the Jordan River, mostly...
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    The Emirate of Transjordan (Arabic: إمارة شرق الأردن, romanized: Imārat Sharq al-Urdun, lit. 'the emirate east of the Jordan'), officially known as the...
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    inhabited by humans since the Paleolithic period. Three kingdoms emerged in Transjordan at the end of the Bronze Age: Ammon, Moab and Edom. In the third century...
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  • The Interregnum (between rulers) period in Transjordan was a short period during which Transjordan had no established ruler or occupying power that lasted...
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    mandate for British administration of the territories of Palestine and Transjordan – which had been part of the Ottoman Empire for four centuries – following...
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    period of the Emirate of Transjordan under British protectorate as well as the general history of the region of Transjordan. There is evidence of human...
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    from 11 April 1921 until his assassination in 1951. He was the Emir of Transjordan, a British protectorate, until 25 May 1946, after which he was king of...
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    Transjordan (Hebrew: עבר הירדן, Ever HaYarden) is an area of land in the Southern Levant lying east of the Jordan River valley. It is also alternatively...
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    Emirate of Transjordan, a post he held from 11 April 1921 until Transjordan gained independence on 25 May 1946 as the Hashemite Kingdom of Transjordan. Once...
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    Kingdom of Syria (1920) Flag of the Emirate of Transjordan (1921–1928) Flag of the Emirate of Transjordan (1928–1939) Flag of the Hashemite Arab Federation...
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    Establishment of the Emirate of Transjordan refers to the government that was set up in Transjordan on 11 April 1921, following a brief interregnum period...
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    الفيلق العربي) was the police force, then regular army, of the Emirate of Transjordan, a British protectorate, in the early part of the 20th century, and then...
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    and the high commissioner for Transjordan was the highest ranking authority representing the United Kingdom in Transjordan. These posts were always held...
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  • Amathus (Ancient Greek: Ἀμαθοῦς or τὰ Ἀμαθά; in Eusebius, Ἀμμαθοὺς. Hebrew: עמתו was a fortified city east of the Jordan River, in modern-day Jordan. Its...
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    removing of Faisal from Syria in July 1920, and Abdullah's entry into Transjordan (which had been the southern part of Faisal's Syria) in November 1920...
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    following morning, after the termination of the British Mandate, Egypt, Transjordan, Syria, and expeditionary forces from Iraq entered Palestine. The invading...
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    creating the Emirate of Transjordan, under the semi-autonomous rule of King Abdullah I. No precise boundary between the Iraq and Transjordan mandates was drawn...
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    move into Palestine from Transjordan. The United States, together with the United Kingdom, favoured the annexation by Transjordan. The UK preferred to permit...
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  • Revisionist Zionists, included the territory of the former Emirate of Transjordan and the Sinai Peninsula. The Bible contains three geographical definitions...
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    and the Jordan Valley was occupied, following the First Transjordan and the Second Transjordan attacks by British Empire forces in March and April 1918...
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    Africans until the 20th century. Slavery was banned in the Emirate of Transjordan in 1929, but it was still reported to exist in practice in the 1940s...
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    detail the exclusion of Transjordan from the Jewish homeland provisions. The only formally approved presence of Jews in Transjordan was in the late 1920s...
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    Kadesh or Qadesh or Cades (Biblical Hebrew: קָדֵשׁ, from the root קדש‎ "holy") is a place-name that occurs several times in the Hebrew Bible, describing...
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    Jerusalem and following a discussion with Emir Abdullah, it was agreed that Transjordan was to be added to the proposed Palestine Mandate, but that the Jewish...
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  • Ottoman authorities sent the first 700 Chechen families to the region of Transjordan. The Chechens settlers chose to settle non-populated areas most suitable...
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    Ikhwan raids on Transjordan were a series of attacks by the Ikhwan, irregular Arab tribesmen of Najd, on the Emirate of Transjordan between 1922 and...
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    Saudi Arabia, Syria, Transjordan, and Yemen formed the Arab League to coordinate policy among the Arab states. Iraq and Transjordan coordinated closely...
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    Palestine and Transjordan into British mandates. Hashemite princes were installed as monarchs under the British mandates in Transjordan and Iraq; this...
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  • The Third Transjordan attack by Chaytor's Force, part of the British Empire's Egyptian Expeditionary Force (EEF), took place between 21 and 25 September...
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