GIORDANI

Volume VI · p. 281 · 1951

English translation · Testo originale italiano

GIORDANI. - Denominazione recente ad indicare il regno di Transgiordania.

Machine translation of the 1948–1954 Italian original. The original text is authoritative.

When on 25 May 1946 Emir ‘Abdallah assumed the title of king and on 27 June 1946 the treaty with England was ratified, the name Transjordan was changed to that of “Hashemite Kingdom of the Jordan,” more briefly, Jordan.

VI. TRANSGIORDANIA.