Riyadh

الرياض

Capital of Saudi Arabia in Najd; seat of the Saudi state since its first emirate, rebuilt as the modern royal capital after 1932.

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Arabia
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Place of death of
Abd al-Fattah Abu Ghudda· Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud· Khalid bin Abdulaziz Al Saud· Muhammad Mustafa al-Azami· Muhammad Sayyid Tantawi
Home of
Abdul Aziz Al-Tarefe· Abdulrahman Mosad· al-A'sha Maymun b. Qays· فيصل بن تركي· ابن القاضي· Ibn Baz, Abd al-Aziz ibn Abd Allah· Khalid al-Juhaim· Mahmood Ahmad Ghadanfar· Nawal Al-Eid· Nia Amroun· Sajid Umar
Birthplace of
Adel Al-Kalbani· Badr Al-Mashari· Dina Shihabi· Fahd bin Abdulaziz Al Saud· Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud· Abdulaziz bin Abdul Rahman Al Saud· Khalid Al-Jaleel· Khalid bin Abdulaziz Al Saud· Mohammed bin Salman· Nasser Al-Qatami· Nayef bin Mamdouh Al Saud· Saeed Al-Owairan· Saleh Al-Osaimi· Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud· Sami Al-Jaber· Sultan bin Salman Al Saud· Yazeed Al-Rajhi
Site of
Battle of Naqra· Battle of Riyadh

People and things also explored

House of Saud· King Faisal Prize· Abdulaziz bin Abdul Rahman Al Saud· Al Oud cemetery· Khalid bin Abdulaziz Al Saud· Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud· Fahd bin Abdulaziz Al Saud· Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud

Sources

  • Wikidata
  • GeoNames gazetteer
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islam.museum contributors. “Riyadh”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/place/riyadh/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-11-10.

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