Transjordan and its Evolving Connection to Palestine

This thematic chronology presents the significant events that marked the evolving forms of connection of Transjordan, as territory and as actor, with Palestine, from the eve of the Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire in 1915 to the enactment in 1954 of the Jordanian Nationality Law that granted citizenship to the Palestinians living in the West Bank. Initially a territorial part of a promised Arab independent state of Greater Syria, including Palestine, Transjordan was part of Palestine under the British Mandate. It evolved into a separate territory under a nascent government and then an independent state that controlled part of Palestine and subsequently absorbed it, becoming the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.