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Ara Guler, Istanbul

In 1918, the region east of the Jordan River, then called Transjordan, became a British mandate. Its population consisted mostly of desert tribes and a small percentage of Circassians who had emigrated from the Caucasus in Russia since the 19th century. Today, Jordan has few nomadic or seminomadic peoples, most of the population having been given housing and land to raise crops or herd their flocks. This change in custom occurred mainly because the…

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