Transjordan
Americannoun
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Once prohibitively expensive, rice became more affordable when the Transjordan region opened to colonial trade a century ago.
From New York Times ● Nov. 11, 2021
The Ottomans’ former Arab possessions were parcelled out as “mandates” under the new League of Nations: France got Syria and Lebanon while Palestine, Iraq and Transjordan went to Britain.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 16, 2017
The British saw Palestine as strategic, because it controlled the way to the Suez Canal and to India via Transjordan and Iraq.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2012
Palestine, Iraq, and Transjordan came under British control; Syria and Lebanon went to France.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2012
ITURÆA, a Transjordan district of Palestine, now Bacar.
From A Dialogue Concerning Oratory, Or The Causes Of Corrupt Eloquence The Works Of Cornelius Tacitus, Volume 8 (of 8); With An Essay On His Life And Genius, Notes, Supplements by Tacitus, Cornelius
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