Editing Emirate of Transjordan (section)

===Arab Revolt and Kingdom of Syria===
During [[World War I]], Transjordan saw much of the fighting of the [[Arab Revolt]] against Ottoman rule. Assisted by the British army officer [[T. E. Lawrence]], the [[Sharif of Mecca]] [[Hussein bin Ali, Sharif of Mecca|Hussein bin Ali]] led the successful revolt which contributed to the Ottoman defeat and [[Dissolution of the Ottoman Empire|breaking up of its empire]]. Ottoman forces were forced to withdraw from [[Aqaba]] in 1917 after the [[Battle of Aqaba]]. In 1918 the British Foreign Office noted the Arab position East of the Jordan, Biger wrote: "At the beginning of 1918, soon after the southern part of Palestine was conquered, the Foreign Office determined that Faisal’s authority over the area that he controls on the Eastern side of the Jordan river should be recognized. We can confirm this recognition of ours even if our forces do not currently control major parts of Transjordan.’"<ref>{{cite book |first=Gideon |last=Biger |title=The Boundaries of Modern Palestine, 1840–1947 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wUqRAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA170 |date=2004 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-135-76652-8 |access-date=25 May 2019 |archive-date=21 December 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191221115007/https://books.google.com/books?id=wUqRAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA170 |url-status=live }}</ref>
In March 1920, the Hashemite [[Arab Kingdom of Syria|Kingdom of Syria]] was declared by [[Faisal bin Hussein]] in Damascus which encompassed most of what later became Transjordan. At this point, the sparsely inhabited southern part of Transjordan was claimed by both Faisal's Syria and his father's [[Kingdom of Hejaz]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net/article/husayn_ibn_ali_king_of_hejaz |title=Husayn ibn Ali, King of Hejaz |date=27 February 2017 |website=1914-1918-online |access-date=23 May 2019 |quote=..the Ottoman collapse in November 1918 opened the way for their triumphal entry into Damascus – an occasion that Husayn marked by annexing Ma‘an and its hinterland (including Aqaba) to the Hejaz. |archive-date=23 May 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190523234048/https://encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net/article/husayn_ibn_ali_king_of_hejaz |url-status=live }}</ref> Following the provision of mandate to France and Britain at the [[San Remo conference]] in April, the British appointed Sir [[Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel|Herbert Samuel]] High Commissioner in Palestine from 1 July 1920 with a remit over the area west of the Jordan.{{sfn|Rudd|1993|p=278}}