Transjordan [træns'dʒɔ:dәn,trænz-,trɑ:n-]
外约旦
- In 1946, Transjordan (now Jordan) became a kingdom as it proclaimed its new monarch, King Abdullah Ibn Ul-Hussein.
- Britain's 1920 Palestine Mandate installed an emir of an autonomous Transjordan, covering two-thirds of Palestine.
- France got Lebanon and Syria. Britain got Iraq, Transjordan (now Jordan), and Palestine.