History of Jordan is worth exploring during Jordan Travel. The glorious History of Jordan reveals the traditional fervor of the country.
Bounded by Syria to the north, Iraq to the north-east, Israel and the West Bank to the west and Saudi Arabia to the east and south, Jordan shares with Israel the coastlines of the Dead Sea. Visit the chief tourist destinations in Jordan to know more about the rich History of Jordan. Embark on World Heritage Sites in Jordan and other sites of historical importance in order to know more about the country's history.
Although Jordan was established as a nation-state in modern times, it was called 'Al-Urdun' (The Jordan) by the Umayyads (661-750 CE) to refer to a military province, then called Jund Al-Urdun. Al-Urdun was made up of sections of northern Palestine (Filastin) and parts of northwestern, modern-day Jordan, featuring cities such as Akka (Acre), Tabariyya (Tiberias), Baysan (Bet Shean/Scythopolis) and Jerash (Gerasa).
With the disintegration of the Ottoman Empire at the end of the First World War, the League of Nations formed the French Mandate of Syria and British Mandate Palestine. The British Mandate of Palestine was east of the Jordan River and was called as "Transjordan". The king of Jordan ruled "Transjordan", under British supervision till the Second World War. In the year 1946, the British request of an end of rule of the British mandate to the United Nations was sanctioned and the Jordanian Parliament declared King Abdullah as the first ruler of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. Browse through the History of Jordan to know more about the events preceding the First World War, the interim between the two wars and the consequences that followed which shaped the country's history in a major way.
In the year 1950, West Bank was annexed by Jordan. West Bank had been administered and supervised by Jordan since the armistice that followed the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. In the year 1965 the Jordanians saw an exchange of land between Saudi Arabia and Jordan. Jordan ceded large areas of inland desert gaining a small piece of sea-shore near Aqaba. The Palestinian refugee population increased, with refugees infiltrating from the West Bank following the 1967 war against Israel along with Syria, Egypt, and Iraq. Go through the History of Jordan to know more about the aftermath of the war and its consequences shaping the culture of Jordan. Today Jordan exists as a constitutional monarchy just as it was declared on January 8, 1952.
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