Jordan–Syria border

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Map of the Jordan-Syria border

The Jordan–Syria border is 362 km (225 m) in length and runs from the tripoint with Israel in the west to the tripoint with Iraq in the east.[1]

Description

The border starts in the west at the tripoint with Israel, though the precise location of the tripoint is at present unclear owing to the Israeli occupation of the

UNDOF Zone south-east of Metzar
.

The Jordan-Golan Heights border runs along the

Ar Ramtha and Daraa across the Daraa Border Crossing and on to the Nasib Border Crossing on the Amman–Damascus road. At 32°18′40″N 36°50′18″E / 32.3112°N 36.8382°E / 32.3112; 36.8382 it turns north-east, running in a straight line across the Syrian Desert, terminating at the Iraqi tripoint at 33°22′29″N 38°47′37″E / 33.3747°N 38.7936°E / 33.3747; 38.7936
.

History

At the start of the 20th century the

Vilayet of Syria was split in two, with France gaining the north and Britain the south.[2] France's section was then organised into the Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon. Britain's section (roughly, modern western Jordan) was contested between Britain, the newly formed Arab Kingdom of Syria, Zionists in the new Mandate for Palestine, and further south Ibn Saud of the new kingdom of Saudi Arabia, resulting in a confused period in which the region was essentially an ungoverned space.[3] Eventually in 1921 Britain declared a formal mandate over the region, creating the Emirate of Transjordan under the semi-autonomous rule of King Abdullah I.[4][5]

In the period of 1920–1923, France and Britain signed a series of agreements, collectively known as the Paulet–Newcombe Agreement, which created the modern Jordan-Syria and Iraq–Syria borders, as an amendment to what had been designated the A zone in the Sykes–Picot Agreement.[2][6][7] A more detailed description of the Jordan–Syria border was agreed upon on 31 October 1931.[2]

In 1967 Israel occupied the Golan Heights following the

Syrian Civil War in 2011.[9]

Jordan’s last remaining territorial dispute was resolved in February 2005, when the interior ministers of Jordan and Syria signed an agreement ending more than 30 years of controversy over the exact demarcation of their mutual border through a land-swap arrangement in their border region.[10]

Settlements near the border

Border crossing between Jordan and Syria

Jordan

Syria

Border crossings

See also

References

  1. ^ CIA World Factbook –Syria, retrieved 3 April 2020
  2. ^ a b c d International Boundary Study No. 94 –Jordan-Syria Boundary (PDF), 30 December 1969, archived from the original (PDF) on 31 August 2021, retrieved 3 April 2020
  3. ISBN 978-1-86064-331-6. Archived
    from the original on 12 March 2016. Retrieved 20 March 2016.
  4. ^ Browne, O'Brien (10 August 2010). "Creating Chaos: Lawrence of Arabia and the 1916 Arab Revolt". HistoryNet, LLC. Archived from the original on 13 October 2015. Retrieved 15 October 2015.
  5. ^ League of Nations Official Journal, Nov. 1922, pp. 1188–1189, 1390–1391.
  6. JSTOR 4283741
    .
  7. hdl:10211.3/115511
    .
  8. ISBN 1-59033-325-X
    .
  9. ^ "Jordan declares Syria and Iraq borders closed military zones". BBC News. 22 June 2016. Retrieved 2016-06-23.
  10. ^ "Jordan, Syria sign border pact". www.aljazeera.com. Retrieved 2023-03-29.
  11. ^ "Transport in Syria - Lonely Planet Travel Information". Archived from the original on 2008-12-16. Retrieved 2017-02-25.
  12. ^ "Transport in Syria". Lonely Planet. Archived from the original on 16 December 2008. Retrieved 25 February 2017.
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