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In 1863 the present kingdom of Jordan was nominally under Turkish over-lordship as part of the sanjak of Jerusalem within the vilayet of Damascus; in reality, the Bedouin tribes at most recognized the sultan as the caliph of the faithful.
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Steinberg, S.H. (1963). The Hashimite Kingdom of Jordan. In: Steinberg, S.H. (eds) The Statesman’s Year-Book. The Statesman’s Yearbook. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230270923_67
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