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After King Hussein's death in 1999, relations between Jordan and the Persian Gulf countries greatly improved. [158] Jordan is a key ally of the US and UK and, together with Egypt and the United Arab Emirates, is one of only three Arab nations to have signed peace treaties with Israel, Jordan's direct neighbour. [159]
The Hauran, a region extending from northern Suwayda to Northeast Al Mafraq in Jordan, alongside the Wadi Al-Azraq, commonly named as Wadi Al-Sirhan after the tribe, were some of the most coveted fertile grazing lands for Arab tribes up until the modern era. The Sirhan tribe, was the paramount tribe in both regions and lead a confederacy called ...
Arab Republic of Egypt ... Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan (official, English ... Polish), United Commonwealth of the Two Nations (historic official name, English ...
The Arab world (Arabic: اَلْعَالَمُ الْعَرَبِيُّ al-ʿālam al-ʿarabī), formally the Arab homeland (اَلْوَطَنُ الْعَرَبِيُّ al-waṭan al-ʿarabī), [7] [8] [9] also known as the Arab nation (اَلْأُمَّةُ الْعَرَبِيَّةُ al-ummah al-ʿarabiyyah), the Arabsphere, or the Arab states, [10] comprises a large group of countries ...
Relief map of Jordan. The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Jordan: . Jordan – country located in Southwest Asia, bordering Syria to the north, Iraq to the north-east, Israel and the Palestinian territories to the west, and Saudi Arabia to the east and south.
In 2016, Jordan was named as the largest refugee hosting country per capita in the world, followed by Turkey, Pakistan and Lebanon. [5] Jordan hosts refugees mainly from the Palestinian territories, Syria, and Iraq, as well as smaller communities from other nations.
Arab League: a regional organization of Arab countries; Arab Maghreb Union: a regional organisation comprising five Arab and North African states; Arraiolos Group is an informal meeting of presidents of parliamentary and semi-presidential European Union member states. ASEAN: the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, a regional organisation ...
The name was given as an adulation to his own nickname, Philadelphus. [32] One of the most original monuments in Jordan, and perhaps in the Hellenistic period in the Near East, is the village of Iraq al-Amir in the valley of Wadi Al-Seer, southwest of Amman, which is home to Qasr al-Abd ('Castle of the Slave').