The British divide their West Asian mandate…

1921 CE

The British divide their West Asian mandate in two: east of the Jordan River becomes the Emirate of Transjordan, to be ruled by Abdullah, and west of the Jordan River becomes the Palestine Mandate.

Effectively, Turkish rule in Transjordan is simply replaced by British rule.

British Lieutenant Colonel Frederick Gerard Peake raises an internal police force, the Arab Legion, to keep order among Transjordanian tribes and to safeguard Transjordanian villagers from Bedouins.

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Cairo > Al-Qahirah Al-Qahirah Egypt View →

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Abdullah I of Jordan View → Faisal I of Iraq and Syria View → Frederick Gerard Peake View → Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel View → Hussein ibn Ali al-Hashimi View → T. E. Lawrence View → Winston Churchill View →

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Arab people View → Bedouin View → Mecca, Sharifate of View → Wahhabism View → Britain (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland) View → Arab nationalism View → France (French republic); the Third Republic View → Hejaz, Kingdom of View → Syria, French Mandate of View → Palestine and Trans-Jordan View →

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