What is the meaning of Transjordan?
Name. The prefix trans- is Latin and means “across” or beyond, and so “Transjordan” refers to the land on the other side of the Jordan River. The equivalent term for the west side is the Cisjordan – literally, “on this side of the [River] Jordan”. What is Transjordan now? On 25 May 1946, the emirate…