Ibn saud biography
Ibn saud biography
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Ibn Saud
Abdulaziz bin Abdul Rahman Al Saud[1] (Arabic: عَبْدُ الْعَزِيزِ آلُ سَعُودٍ) (15 January [2] – 9 November ), was the founder and first monarch of Saudi Arabia.[3] He was usually known in the Arab world as Abdulaziz[4] and known outside it as Ibn Saud.[5]
He reconquered his family's ancestral home city of Riyadh in This started 30 years which made him the ruler of nearly all of central Arabia.
He consolidated his control over the Najd in , then conquered the Hijaz in He united his dominions into the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in As King, he presided over the discovery of petroleum in Saudi Arabia in and the beginning of large-scale oil production after World War II.
He fathered many children, including 45 sons.[6] He died of a heart attack. All the later kings of Saudi Arabia have been his children.
References
[change | change source]- ↑Arabic: عَبْدُ الْعَزِيزِ آلُ سَعُودٍ, ‘Abd al-‘Azīz ibn ‘Abd ar-