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Transjordan may refer to:

  • Transjordan (region), an area to the east of the Jordan River
  • Oultrejordain, a Crusader lordship (1118–1187), also called Transjordan
  • Emirate of Transjordan, British protectorate (1921–1946)
  • Hashemite Kingdom of Transjordan, a former name (1946–1949) for the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan

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Transjordan

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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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Emirate of Transjordan

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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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Jordan

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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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Mandate for Palestine

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mandate for British administration of the territories of Palestine and Transjordan, both of which had been conceded by the Ottoman Empire following the...

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History of Jordan

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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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Flag of Jordan

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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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Transjordan in the Bible

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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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Abdullah I of Jordan

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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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List of kings of Jordan

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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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Ikhwan raids on Transjordan

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Ikhwan raids on Transjordan were a series of attacks by the Ikhwan, irregular Arab tribesmen of Najd, on Transjordan between 1922 and 1924. The repeated...

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Establishment of the Emirate of Transjordan

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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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Slavery in Jordan

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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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Hashemites

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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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History of the Jews in Jordan

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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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World War I

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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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List of high commissioners for Palestine and Transjordan

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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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Kingdom of Hejaz

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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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Jordanian annexation of the West Bank

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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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First Battle of the Jordan

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31°56′N 35°56′E / 31.933°N 35.933°E / 31.933; 35.933 The First Transjordan attack on Amman (known to the British as the First Attack on Amman) and...

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1948 Palestine war

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War II, the surrounding Arab states were emerging from mandatory rule. Transjordan, under the Hashemite ruler Abdullah I, gained independence from Britain...

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Postage stamps and postal history of Jordan

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survey of the postage stamps and postal history of Jordan, formerly Transjordan. Jordan was part of the Turkish Empire until 1918 and a number of Turkish...

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Arab Legion

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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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Mandatory Palestine

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Kingdom announced the independence of the Emirate of Transjordan as the Hashemite Kingdom of Transjordan in 1946, the final Assembly of the League of Nations...

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Moses

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escaped the temptation of idolatry, conquered the lands of Og and Sihon in Transjordan, received God's blessing through Balaam the prophet, and massacred the...

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Chechens in Jordan

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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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