Polity · 1744 CE – 1819 CE

Emirate of Diriyah

إِمَارَةُ الدِّرْعِيَّةِ الْكُبْرَى · الدولة السعودية الأولى

Peak recorded area
2,281,200 km²
1811 CE
Rulers on record
4
from 1744 CE
Sources cited
2
see all

Overview

The first Saudi state, officially the Emirate of Diriyah, was a polity that existed on the Arabian Peninsula between 1744 and 1818. The emir of a Najdi town called Diriyah, Muhammad bin Saud Al Muqrin, and the religious leader Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab signed a pact founding a socio-religious reform movement that propagated the Wahhabi religious doctrine under the political leadership of the House of Saud.

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Territory

22 dated territorial extents on record from Cliopatria. Areas are measured off the recorded polygons; the line steps because each extent holds until the next one is recorded — nothing is interpolated.

2.3M km²01744 CE1819 CE

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Rulers

4 on record with dated reigns. Reign years follow the house convention: BCE years are negative.

  1. Muhammad bin SaudHead of State1744 CE – 1765 CE
  2. Abdulaziz bin MohammedHead of State1765 CE – 1803 CE
  3. Saud al-KabeerHead of State1803 CE – 1814 CE
  4. Abdullah bin Saud Al KabeerHead of State1814 CE – 1818 CE

Language & currency

Official & national languages
Arabic

Sources

Every figure above comes from one of these. Nothing on this page is estimated, interpolated or model-generated.

  • Cliopatria

    Seshat Global History Databank. Cliopatria: a historical basemap of polity borders (cliopatria.geojson).

  • Wikipedia

    Wikipedia contributors. Article lead sections, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.

    CC BY-SA 4.0

Emirate of Diriyah is one of the polities with a sourced record deep enough to publish.

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