Trans-Jordan
Britishnoun
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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
The war that followed Israel's declaration of independence in 1948 left the former British mandate of Palestine partitioned between Israel, Trans-Jordan and Egypt.
From BBC
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
Golda was no sooner back from that trip than Ben-Gurion sent her on a secret mission in 1947 to Trans-Jordan's King Abdullah.
From Time Magazine Archive
They proclaimed King Abdullah of Trans-Jordan as commander of their army," he said, "and several members of the group proposed that Abdullah, a descendant of the Prophet, should ride on a white horse like a caliph at the head of his troops.
From Time Magazine Archive
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