Trans-Jordan

British  

noun

1. the former name (1922–49) of Jordan 1

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Example Sentences

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

"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

There were still longer cheers, led by the sheiks of Saudi Arabia, when he promised early independence to Trans-Jordan, whose Indiana-sized expanse includes mud, lifeless desert and the Dead Sea.

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

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