Transjordan
Americannoun
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Once prohibitively expensive, rice became more affordable when the Transjordan region opened to colonial trade a century ago.
From New York Times • Nov. 11, 2021
The Ottomans’ former Arab possessions were parcelled out as “mandates” under the new League of Nations: France got Syria and Lebanon while Palestine, Iraq and Transjordan went to Britain.
From The Guardian • Feb. 16, 2017
The British saw Palestine as strategic, because it controlled the way to the Suez Canal and to India via Transjordan and Iraq.
From BBC • Sep. 9, 2012
Palestine, Iraq, and Transjordan came under British control; Syria and Lebanon went to France.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2012
Britain separated out a semi-autonomous region of Transjordan from Palestine in the early 1920s, and the area gained its independence in 1946; it adopted the name of Jordan in 1950.
From The 2008 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency
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