Polity · 1824 CE – 1925 CE
Emirate of Nejd
الدولة السعودية الثانية
- Peak recorded area
- 1,116,580 km²
- 1853 CE
Overview
The second Saudi state, officially known as the Emirate of Najd, was a state that existed between 1824 and 1891 in the Najd region of what is now Saudi Arabia. Saudi rule was restored to central (Najd) and Eastern Arabia after the first Saudi state having previously been brought down by the Ottoman Empire's Egypt Eyalet in the Ottoman–Wahhabi War.
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Territory
21 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.
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.
Seshat Global History Databank. Cliopatria: a historical basemap of polity borders (cliopatria.geojson).
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Emirate of Nejd is one of the polities with a sourced record deep enough to publish.