This is a list of rulers of
Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia, officially the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), is a country in Western Asia. It covers the bulk of the Arabian Peninsula, and has a land area of about , making it the List of Asian countries by area, fifth-largest country in Asia ...
, a kingdom on the
Arabian Peninsula.
House of Saud founder (1720−1726)
Emirate of Diriyah (1727-1818)
Emirate of Nejd (1823-1891)
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (1932–present)
Timeline
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from: 1720 till: 1725 color:Imam text:" Saud I" fontsize:10
from: 1744 till: 1765 color:Imam text:" Muhammad I" fontsize:10
from: 1765 till: 1803 color:Imam text:" Abdulaziz I" fontsize:10
from: 1803 till: 1814 color:Imam text:" Saud II" fontsize:10
from: 1814 till: 1818 color:Imam text:" Abdullah I" fontsize:10
from: 1823 till: 1834 color:Imam text:"Turki
Chagatai (چغتای, ''Čaġatāy''), also known as ''Turki'', Eastern Turkic, or Chagatai Turkic (''Čaġatāy türkīsi''), is an extinct Turkic literary language that was once widely spoken across Central Asia and remained the shared literar ...
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from: 1834 till: 1834 color:Imam text:" Mishari" fontsize:10
from: 1834 till: 1838 color:Imam text:" Faisal I" fontsize:10
from: 1838 till: 1841 color:Imam text:" Khalid I" fontsize:10
from: 1841 till: 1843 color:Imam text:"Abdullah II
Abdullah II bin Al-Hussein ( ar, عبدالله الثاني بن الحسين , translit=ʿAbd Allāh aṯ-ṯānī ibn al-Ḥusayn; born 30 January 1962) is King of Jordan, having ascended the throne on 7 February 1999. He is a member of ...
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from: 1843 till: 1865 color:Imam text:" Faisal I" fontsize:10
from: 1865 till: 1871 color:Imam text:"Abdullah II
Abdullah II bin Al-Hussein ( ar, عبدالله الثاني بن الحسين , translit=ʿAbd Allāh aṯ-ṯānī ibn al-Ḥusayn; born 30 January 1962) is King of Jordan, having ascended the throne on 7 February 1999. He is a member of ...
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from: 1871 till: 1871 color:Imam text:" Saud III" fontsize:10
from: 1871 till: 1873 color:Imam text:"Abdullah II
Abdullah II bin Al-Hussein ( ar, عبدالله الثاني بن الحسين , translit=ʿAbd Allāh aṯ-ṯānī ibn al-Ḥusayn; born 30 January 1962) is King of Jordan, having ascended the throne on 7 February 1999. He is a member of ...
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from: 1873 till: 1875 color:Imam text:" Saud III" fontsize:10
from: 1875 till: 1876 color:Imam text:" AbdulRahman" fontsize:10
from: 1876 till: 1889 color:Imam text:"Abdullah II
Abdullah II bin Al-Hussein ( ar, عبدالله الثاني بن الحسين , translit=ʿAbd Allāh aṯ-ṯānī ibn al-Ḥusayn; born 30 January 1962) is King of Jordan, having ascended the throne on 7 February 1999. He is a member of ...
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from: 1889 till: 1891 color:Imam text:" AbdulRahman">" fontsize:10
from: 1902 till: 1953 color:Imam text:" Abdulaziz II" fontsize:10
from: 1953 till: 1964 color:Imam text:" Saud IV" fontsize:10
from: 1964 till: 1975 color:Imam text:" Faisal II" fontsize:10
from: 1975 till: 1982 color:Imam text:" Khalid II" fontsize:10
from: 1982 till: 2005 color:Imam text:" Fahd" fontsize:10
from: 2005 till: 2015 color:Imam text:" Abdullah IV" fontsize:10
from: 2015 till: end color:Imam text:" Salman" fontsize:10
Standard of the Kingdom
The Royal Standard consists of a green flag, with an
Arabic inscription and a sword featured in white, and with the Emblem of Saudi Arabia, national emblem embroidered in gold in the lower right canton of the year 1973.
File:Royal Standard of Saudi Arabia.svg, Royal Flag of the King
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File:Royal Standard of Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.svg, Royal Standard of the King
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The script on the flag is written in the Thuluth, Thuluth script. It is the ''shahada'' or Islamic declaration of faith:
:
: '
:''There is no other god but Allah, God, Muhammad is the messenger of God.''
File:Royal Flag of Saudi Arabia (1938-1953).svg, Royal Flag of the King (1938-1953)
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File:Royal Banner of Saudi Arabia (1938-1953).svg, Royal Banner of the King (1938-1953)
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File:Royal Standard of Saudi Arabia (1938-1953).svg, Royal Standard of the King (1938-1953)
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File:Royal Flag of Saudi Arabia (1953-1964).svg, Royal Flag of the King (1953-1964)
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File:Royal Standard of Saudi Arabia (1953-1964).svg, Royal Standard of the King (1953-1964)
(Ratio: 1:1)
File:Royal Flag of Saudi Arabia (1964-1973).svg, Royal Flag of the King (1964-1973)
(Ratio: 2:3)
File:Royal Standard of Saudi Arabia (1964-1973).svg, Royal Standard of the King (1964-1973)
(Ratio: 1:1)
See also
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History of Saudi Arabia
The history of Saudi Arabia as a nation state began with the emergence of the Al Saud dynasty in central Arabia in 1727 and the subsequent establishment of the Emirate of Diriyah. Pre-Islamic Arabia, the territory that constitutes modern Saudi ...
References
assassinated.
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Rulers
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