After the fall of the previous First Saudi State and the Second Saudi State, The Third Saudi state was founded by the late King Abdulaziz Ibn Saud. In 1902 Ibn Saud captured Riyadh, the Al-Saud dynasty's ancestral capital, from the rival Al-Rashid clan. Continuing his conquests, Abdul Aziz subdued Al-Hasa, the rest of Nejd, and the Hejaz between 1913 and 1926.
Following the Diriyah agreement between Muhammed bin Abdulwahhab and Muhammad ibn Saud,...
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After the fall of the previous First Saudi State and the Second Saudi State, The Third Saudi state was founded by the late King Abdulaziz Ibn Saud. In 1902 Ibn Saud captured Riyadh, the Al-Saud dynasty's ancestral capital, from the rival Al-Rashid clan. Continuing his conquests, Abdul Aziz subdued Al-Hasa, the rest of Nejd, and the Hejaz between 1913 and 1926.
Following the Diriyah agreement between Muhammed bin Abdulwahhab and Muhammad ibn Saud, the Al Saud clan founded the First Saudi State, a state whose strict defence of Islam was later defined as Wahhabism. The First Saudi State has conquered most of the Arabian Peninsula, And was involved in war with the Ottoman Empire. However, The Saudis was successfully captured Mecca in 1802, which was the honor part of the Ottomans in the Arabian peninsula.
This was a massive blow to the prestige of the Ottoman Empire, which had exercised sovereignty over the holy city since 1517, and the lethargic Ottomans were finally moved to action. The...
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