- a variation of Transjordan.
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
At UNO's London meeting, Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin had announced Britain's intention to give up its League of Nations mandate for Trans-Jordan.
From Time Magazine Archive
Amman, dusty mountain capital of mountainous Trans-Jordan, last week woke out of its normal torpor to its most exciting holiday in a quarter of a century.
From Time Magazine Archive
Hussain, 76, onetime King of the Hejaz, father of King Faisal of Iraq and King Abdullah of Trans-Jordan; on the Island of Cyprus.
From Time Magazine Archive
Thus this week the Emir of Trans-Jordan, His Highness Abdullah ibn Hussein, figured that what the British are going to do will, at any rate, enlarge his realm and glory.
From Time Magazine Archive
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