Trans-Jordan
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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When the armies of Egypt, Syria, Trans-Jordan, Iraq and Saudi Arabia attacked, the pilots were still in Czechoslovakia learning to fly their makeshift planes.
From Newsweek
Their cities, roads and forts were all over Trans-Jordan.
From Time Magazine Archive
Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq and Trans-Jordan, he announced, had agreed to join a League of Independent Arab States "to achieve the welfare of all Arab countries and safeguard their independence against all aggression."
From Time Magazine Archive
They left Trans-Jordan still tied to Britain by a fairly strong military and economic rope.
From Time Magazine Archive
"That a Jew should wander by himself in Trans-Jordan," he says, "was so unheard of that no one thought to ask."
From Time Magazine Archive
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