Transjordan

American  

[trans-jawr-dn, tranz-] / trænsˈdʒɔr dn, trænz- /

Or Trans-Jordan

noun

1. an area east of the Jordan River, in SW Asia: a British mandate (1921–23); an emirate (1923–49); now the major part of the kingdom of Jordan.

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Example Sentences

Wingate had been dead for four years by the time of Israel’s War of Independence in 1948, but his nimble approach to warfare was central to the newborn state’s defeat of the combined armies of Egypt, Transjordan, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and Yemen.

From Salon

Environmental changes caused Indigenous peoples to add different meats and grains to their diets, but some of the alterations were more politically deliberate, especially after the Council of the League of Nations in 1922 recognized the semiautonomous territory of Transjordan, previously part of the Ottoman Empire, as under the British Mandate, which ushered in unprecedented social and cultural change.

From New York Times

Once prohibitively expensive, rice became more affordable when the Transjordan region opened to colonial trade a century ago.

From New York Times

This made it ideal during the creation of a Jordanian Bedouin identity, for the new nation-state that gained credence in the 20th century through its association with nomadic tribes and evolved into the independent Hashemite Kingdom of Transjordan in 1946.

From New York Times

Hamzah joined members of the royal family marking the centenary of the establishment of the Emirate of Transjordan, a British protectorate that preceded the kingdom.

From Washington Post