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Richard Hess, on the other hand, asserts that "the Transjordanian tribes were not in the land of promise." [12] Moshe Weinfeld argues that in the Book of Joshua, the Jordan is portrayed as "a barrier to the promised land", [10] but in Deuteronomy 1:7 and 11:24, the Transjordan is an "integral part of the promised land." [13]
The other Christians who lived in Transjordan were nomadic or semi-nomadic and were often distrusted by the Crusaders. According to John of Ibelin, the Lordship of Transjordan was one of the four major Vassals of the Kingdom of Jerusalem. John, writing in the 13th century, called it a lordship, but it may have been treated as a principality in ...
On 25 May 1946 the Transjordan became the "Hashemite Kingdom of Transjordan" when the ruling 'Amir' was re-designated as 'King' by the parliament of Transjordan on the day it ratified the Treaty of London. 25 May is still celebrated as independence day in Jordan although legally the mandate for Transjordan ended on 17 June 1946 when, in ...
Villages in Transjordan expanded rapidly in areas with reliable water-resources and arable land. [29] Ancient Egyptian populations expanded towards the Levant and came to control both banks of the Jordan River. [30] During the Iron Age (1200–332 BC), after the withdrawal of the Egyptians, Transjordan was home to the kingdoms of Ammon, Edom ...
The Emirate of Transjordan (Arabic: إمارة شرق الأردن, romanized: Imārat Sharq al-Urdun, lit. 'the emirate east of the Jordan'), officially known as the Amirate of Trans-Jordan, was a British protectorate established on 11 April 1921, [4] [1] [2] which remained as such until achieving formal independence as the Kingdom of Transjordan in 1946.
The site of the former Naharayim power plant was dubbed Island of Peace, with Israeli private land ownership and property rights, but Jordanian sovereignty. [ 4 ] On 13 March 1997, a visiting group of schoolgirls was attacked by Jordanian Army Corporal Ahmed Daqamseh, who stated that he attacked because he was insulted and angered that the ...
Soon after, Dobrik created a YouTube channel, where he built a brand off goofy pranks and viral stunts, from shocking fans when he married his best friend's mom to turning a Vlog Squad member's ...
The Israel–Jordan peace treaty (formally the "Treaty of Peace Between the State of Israel and the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan"), [Note 1] sometimes referred to as the Wadi Araba Treaty, [1] is an agreement that ended the state of war that had existed between the two countries since the 1948 Arab–Israeli War and established mutual diplomatic relations.