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    Emirate of Transjordan (Arabic: إمارة شرق الأردن, romanized: Imārat Sharq al-Urdun, lit. 'the emirate east of the Jordan'), officially the Amirate of...
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    the Emirate of Transjordan was established in 1921 by Hashemite Emir Abdullah, and the emirate became a British protectorate. In 1946, the emirate achieved...
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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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    The history of Jordan refers to the history of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan and the background period of the Emirate of Transjordan under British protectorate...
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    Emir of the 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...
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  • 16th century Emirate of Transjordan, modern Jordan 1921–46 Islamic Emirate of Byara, modern Kurdistan Region, Iraq, 2001–2003 Ottoman emirate in 1300, labeled...
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  • (1118–1187), also called Transjordan Emirate of Transjordan, British protectorate (1921–1946) Hashemite Kingdom of Transjordan, a former name (1946–1949)...
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  • 1920, after establishing the Emirate of Transjordan, the United Kingdom mobilized a "mobile force" under the command of Captain Frederick Gerard Peake...
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    covered territory that would later become part of the Emirate of Transjordan and the modern country of Jordan. While under Crusader control, the Bedouin nomads...
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    Ottoman Syria was partitioned, leading to the establishment of the Emirate of Transjordan in 1921, which became a British protectorate. In 1946, the country...
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    governments during the 23 years of the Emirate.[citation needed] Abdullah set about the task of building Transjordan with the help of a reserve force headed by...
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    Al-Karak (redirect from Karak of Moab)
    the arrival of the Emir. At the Cairo conference, March 1921, Abdullah was recognised by the British as ruler of Emirate of Transjordan. In the 1920s...
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    Flag of the Arab Kingdom of Syria (1920) Flag of the Emirate of Transjordan (1921–1928) Flag of the Emirate of Transjordan (1928–1939) Flag of the Hashemite...
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    newly created state, the Emirate of Transjordan, which became the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan in 1950. Its function as the capital of the country attracted...
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  • July 1920 until the Establishment of the Emirate of Transjordan in April 1921. Transjordan was in the British sphere of influence, but the British did not...
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    in 1916. After removing Ottoman rule, Abdullah established the Emirate of Transjordan in 1921, and ruled as its Emir. During Abdullah's absence, Talal...
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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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    Arab Legion (category Military history of Jordan)
    regular army, of the Emirate of Transjordan, a British protectorate, in the early part of the 20th century, and then of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, an...
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    Slavery was banned in the Emirate of Transjordan in 1929, but it was still reported to exist in practice in the 1940s. Many members of the Afro-Jordan minority...
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  • Mandatory Palestine and the Emirate of Transjordan. During the Ottoman rule of Palestine he was appointed as a district commissioner of Ramla. He was arrested...
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    governments of the Arab Kingdom of Syria, and, after its downfall, by the government of the Emirate of Transjordan. His first job was in Karak, Transjordan, as...
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    majority of the local population; this requirement and others, however, would not apply to the separate Arab emirate to be established in Transjordan. The...
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    the Emirate of Transjordan (1921–1946). The Ottoman Empire's possessions in the Arabian Peninsula became the Kingdom of Hejaz, which the Sultanate of Nejd...
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    Mudar Badran (category Knights Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic)
    1989 to 1991. Badran was born in Jerash, Jordan (then the Emirate of Transjordan, a colony of the United Kingdom) in 1934 to Palestinian parents. His father...
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    of Transjordan. Due to the success of the Turkish War of Independence, Marash, Aintab and Urfa sanjaks of former Aleppo Vilayet remained part of Turkey...
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    Saeed Pasha Khair (category Mayors of Amman)
    the fifth Mayor of Amman and the first in the during the Emirate of Transjordan. He played a key role in Amman becoming the Capital of Jordan. Khair was...
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    Egypt Cairo Conference (disambiguation) Sharifian Solution Emirate of Transjordan Kingdom of Iraq (Mandate administration) Mandatory Palestine The cubs...
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    Jordan–Saudi Arabia border (category Emirate of Transjordan)
    creating the Emirate of Transjordan, under the semi-autonomous rule of Emir (and future King) Abdullah I. The southern border between Transjordan and Arabia...
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    Kingdom of Iraq (1932–1958) Flag of the Emirate of Transjordan (1928–1939) Flag of Syria (1932–1958, 1961–1963) Flag of the Hashemite Arab Federation of Jordan...
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    The Transjordan memorandum was a British memorandum passed by the Council of the League of Nations on 16 September 1922, as an addendum to the Mandate...
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