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www.cheapjordanreleases.com In the case of Jordan, Amir Abdullah's Hashimite family actually hailed not from Jordan itself but from Mecca in western Arabia. The Hashimites had fought with the British in the “Great Arab Revolt" against the Ottoman Turkish Empire during World War I. But shortly after the war ended, the Hashimites were defeated and expelled from Arabia by their rivals the Saudis, who ultimately carved out the modem kingdom of Saudi Arabia,authentic jordans, to which they attached the family name. In the postwar mandate period, the British government decided to install two brothers of the House of Hashim, Abdullah and Faysal. in their mandates of Jordan and Iraq respectively.3 This move was in large part intended as a reward for Hashimite support in the Arab revolt against the Ottoman Empire during World War I. The British thus established new borders―and new dynasties―in some of their new imperial territories, including Hashimite monarchies in both Transjordan and Iraq. The latter dynasty was overthrown and eliminated in a bloody coup in Baghdad in 1958, but in the early twenty-first century the Hashimite monarchy continued both to reign and to rule in Jordan. |
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