What the records say
- When
- 21 Mar 1918
- Kind
- Battle
- Coordinates
- 31.82° N, 35.55° E
- Description
- 1918 first World War battle
- War
- World War I
Battle of Hijla
First World War battle
The Battle of Hijla was fought by the forces of the British and Turkish Empires during the Sinai and Palestine Campaign of the First World War. Hijla is on the River Jordan a few miles upriver from the Dead Sea. Today the river is the boundary between Jordan and the "West Bank" area presently administered by Israel and the Palestinian Authority, but in 1918 it was territory of Ottoman Turkey.
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