#Redirect Transjordan
Corresponding geographically to today's Kingdom of Jordan, the Emirate of Transjordan was an autonomous political subdivision of the British Mandate of Palestine, split off in April 1921. It remained a legal part of Palestine, under the nominal auspices of the League of Nations, until its independence in 1946. "Transjordan" was a word coined to express the idea that the lands so described were "across the Jordan", i.e. on the far (eastern) side of the Jordan River. On the western side of the Jordan River was Palestine (region) which contained many places of historical and religious signifance to Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. "Transjordan" was also known as "Eastern Palestine". Under the Ottoman empire, Transjordan did not correspond precisely to a political division, though most of it belonged to the Vilayet of Syria and a small southern section came from the Vilayet of Hejaz. The inhabitants of northern Jordan had traditionally associated with Syria, those of southern Jordan with the Arabian Peninsula, and those of western Jordan with the administrative districts west of the Jordan River. Historically the territory had formed part of various empires; among these are the Jewish, Assyrian, Achaemenid, Macedonian (Seleucid), Nabataean, Ptolemaic, Ancient Rome, Sassanid, Muslim, Crusader, and Ottoman empires. The territory covered by Transjordan resulted from a compromise between the competing promises in the Hussein-McMahon Correspondence and Sykes-Picot Agreement. Previously a part of the territory covered by the planned League of Nations mandate for British Mandate of Palestine, Transjordan was created as a separate administrative entity on April 11, 1921 to provide a throne of sorts (albeit one under British control) for the Hashemite Emir Abdullah I of Jordan, elder son of Britain's wartime Arab ally Sharif Hussein of Mecca. The move also excluded the land east of the Jordan from Britain's wartime undertaking in the Balfour Declaration 1917 (2 November 1917) to support the creation of a Jewish national home in Palestine. Britain recognized Transjordan as a state on May 15, 1923 and gradually relinquished control, limiting its oversight to financial, military and foreign policy matters. In March 1946, under the Treaty of London, 1946, Transjordan became a kingdom and on May 25, 1946, the parliament of Transjordan proclaimed the emir king, and formally changed the name of the country from the Emirate of Transjordan to the ''Hashemite Kingdom of Transjordan''. In December 1948, Abdullah took the title King of Jordan, and he officially changed the country's name to the ''Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan'' in April 1949. The following year he annexed the West Bank. With the exception of the French Cisjordanie, the coinage, ''Cisjordan'', meant to apply specifically to the West Bank at that time, has not since caught on, outside Jordanian circles. ==See also== *Jordan *Palestine (region) * Cisjordan *Oultrejordain *British Mandate of Palestine *Israel-Jordan Treaty of Peace ==External links== *[http://www.kinghussein.gov.jo/his_transjordan.html Jordan - History: The making of Transjordan], King Hussein's official page *[http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/jotoc.html US Library of Congress country study] Jordan Israeli history Palestine Arab
Most of this appears to be a simple rewrite of information that appears on [http://www.kinghussein.gov.jo] and [http://www.kingabdullah.jo]. Their Wikipedia:copyright policies would not allow this information here, so this is a case of plagiarism that needs to be fixed. User:Geoffrey I have not seen much response other than User:Branden's addition of a few paragraphs, with which, along with a tiny and possibly incorrect summary, I have replaced the page. Therefore, with modifications from the boilerplate text, I say this. -User:Geoffrey 01:20 Mar 1, 2003 (UTC) :Removed possible Wikipedia:Copyrights. Text that was previously posted here is the same as text from these webpages, which are exact copies: :#[http://www.kinghussein.gov.jo/his_transjordan.html http://www.kinghussein.gov.jo/his_transjordan.html] :#[http://www.kingabdullah.jo/about_jordan/making_transjordan.html http://www.kingabdullah.jo/about_jordan/making_transjordan.html] :To the poster: If there was permission to use this material under terms of our Wikipedia:Text of the GNU Free Documentation License or if you are the copyright holder of the externally linked text, then please indicate so on this talk page. If there was no permission to use this text then please leave this page as a stub article. :It also should be noted that the posting of copyrighted material that does ''not'' have the express permission from the copyright holder is possibly illegal and is a violation of our wikipedia:copyright. Those with a history of violations may be temporarily Special:Ipblocklist from editing pages. If this is in fact an infringement of copyright, we still welcome any original contributions by you. ---- Removed "This likely explains why the lands east of the Jordan river were implicitly consdidered of secondary importance (being on the "other" side of it)." which is just an unimportant opinion. -- User:Zero0000 08:40, 10 Aug 2003 (UTC) :I wrote that sentence. I guess it's only unimportant if etymology is unimportant. Ask yourself why the area *west* of the Jordan river wasn't called "trans"-Jordan. Or don't, I guess -- evidently you feel it's better to delete stuff out of the Wikipedia than improve it through analysis. User:Branden 05:17, 23 Jan 2004 (UTC) :The primary European access to Palestine throughout history was from the coast. That's why the west is "this side" and the east is the "far side". No other speculation is required. As far as importance is concerned, as well as being more accessible the west side was more fertile, more populated, and more important economically. --User:Zero0000 10:42, 23 Jan 2004 (UTC) == Cisjordan == I just want to mention here that the word ''Cisjordnia'' (derived from Cisjordan) is used in Portuguese, instead of "West Bank". So, this word did catch on outside Jordanian circles. User:PMLF 22:13, 9 Jan 2005 (UTC)
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Corresponding geographically to today's Kingdom of Jordan, the Emirate of Transjordan was an autonomous political subdivision of the British Mandate of Palestine, split off in April 1921. It remained a legal part of Palestine, under the nominal auspices of the League of Nations, until its independence in 1946. "Transjordan" was a word coined to express the idea that the lands so described were "across the Jordan", i.e. on the far (eastern) side of the Jordan River. On the western side of the Jordan River was Palestine (region) which contained many places of historical and religious signifance to Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. "Transjordan" was also known as "Eastern Palestine". Under the Ottoman empire, Transjordan did not correspond precisely to a political division, though most of it belonged to the Vilayet of Syria and a small southern section came from the Vilayet of Hejaz. The inhabitants of northern Jordan had traditionally associated with Syria, those of southern Jordan with the Arabian Peninsula, and those of western Jordan with the administrative districts west of the Jordan River. Historically the territory had formed part of various empires; among these are the Jewish, Assyrian, Achaemenid, Macedonian (Seleucid), Nabataean, Ptolemaic, Ancient Rome, Sassanid, Muslim, Crusader, and Ottoman empires. The territory covered by Transjordan resulted from a compromise between the competing promises in the Hussein-McMahon Correspondence and Sykes-Picot Agreement. Previously a part of the territory covered by the planned League of Nations mandate for British Mandate of Palestine, Transjordan was created as a separate administrative entity on April 11, 1921 to provide a throne of sorts (albeit one under British control) for the Hashemite Emir Abdullah I of Jordan, elder son of Britain's wartime Arab ally Sharif Hussein of Mecca. The move also excluded the land east of the Jordan from Britain's wartime undertaking in the Balfour Declaration 1917 (2 November 1917) to support the creation of a Jewish national home in Palestine. Britain recognized Transjordan as a state on May 15, 1923 and gradually relinquished control, limiting its oversight to financial, military and foreign policy matters. In March 1946, under the Treaty of London, 1946, Transjordan became a kingdom and on May 25, 1946, the parliament of Transjordan proclaimed the emir king, and formally changed the name of the country from the Emirate of Transjordan to the ''Hashemite Kingdom of Transjordan''. In December 1948, Abdullah took the title King of Jordan, and he officially changed the country's name to the ''Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan'' in April 1949. The following year he annexed the West Bank. With the exception of the French Cisjordanie, the coinage, ''Cisjordan'', meant to apply specifically to the West Bank at that time, has not since caught on, outside Jordanian circles. ==See also== *Jordan *Palestine (region) * Cisjordan *Oultrejordain *British Mandate of Palestine *Israel-Jordan Treaty of Peace ==External links== *[http://www.kinghussein.gov.jo/his_transjordan.html Jordan - History: The making of Transjordan], King Hussein's official page *[http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/jotoc.html US Library of Congress country study] Jordan Israeli history Palestine Arab
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Most of this appears to be a simple rewrite of information that appears on [http://www.kinghussein.gov.jo] and [http://www.kingabdullah.jo]. Their Wikipedia:copyright policies would not allow this information here, so this is a case of plagiarism that needs to be fixed. User:Geoffrey I have not seen much response other than User:Branden's addition of a few paragraphs, with which, along with a tiny and possibly incorrect summary, I have replaced the page. Therefore, with modifications from the boilerplate text, I say this. -User:Geoffrey 01:20 Mar 1, 2003 (UTC) :Removed possible Wikipedia:Copyrights. Text that was previously posted here is the same as text from these webpages, which are exact copies: :#[http://www.kinghussein.gov.jo/his_transjordan.html http://www.kinghussein.gov.jo/his_transjordan.html] :#[http://www.kingabdullah.jo/about_jordan/making_transjordan.html http://www.kingabdullah.jo/about_jordan/making_transjordan.html] :To the poster: If there was permission to use this material under terms of our Wikipedia:Text of the GNU Free Documentation License or if you are the copyright holder of the externally linked text, then please indicate so on this talk page. If there was no permission to use this text then please leave this page as a stub article. :It also should be noted that the posting of copyrighted material that does ''not'' have the express permission from the copyright holder is possibly illegal and is a violation of our wikipedia:copyright. Those with a history of violations may be temporarily Special:Ipblocklist from editing pages. If this is in fact an infringement of copyright, we still welcome any original contributions by you. ---- Removed "This likely explains why the lands east of the Jordan river were implicitly consdidered of secondary importance (being on the "other" side of it)." which is just an unimportant opinion. -- User:Zero0000 08:40, 10 Aug 2003 (UTC) :I wrote that sentence. I guess it's only unimportant if etymology is unimportant. Ask yourself why the area *west* of the Jordan river wasn't called "trans"-Jordan. Or don't, I guess -- evidently you feel it's better to delete stuff out of the Wikipedia than improve it through analysis. User:Branden 05:17, 23 Jan 2004 (UTC) :The primary European access to Palestine throughout history was from the coast. That's why the west is "this side" and the east is the "far side". No other speculation is required. As far as importance is concerned, as well as being more accessible the west side was more fertile, more populated, and more important economically. --User:Zero0000 10:42, 23 Jan 2004 (UTC) == Cisjordan == I just want to mention here that the word ''Cisjordnia'' (derived from Cisjordan) is used in Portuguese, instead of "West Bank". So, this word did catch on outside Jordanian circles. User:PMLF 22:13, 9 Jan 2005 (UTC)
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