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Saudi-Arabien (veraltet auch Saudisch-Arabien, arabisch المملكة العربية السعودية al-Mamlaka al-ʿarabīya as-saʿūdīya, Königreich Saudi-Arabien) ist eine absolute Monarchie in Vorderasien. Es liegt auf der Arabischen Halbinsel und grenzt an deren Anrainerstaaten (siehe Abschnitt „Landesgrenze“ unten), an ...
- König Salman
Salmans Vater war der Gründer des Königreichs Saudi-Arabien,...
- Riad
Lage von Riad in Saudi-Arabien Satellitenbild von Riad, Mai...
- Raif Badawi
Raif Badawi (2012) Raif Muhammad Badawi (arabisch رائف محمد...
- Saudische Riyal
Saudi riyal) wird gelegentlich auch im Deutschen der...
- König Salman
Saudi Arabia, officially the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), is a country in West Asia and the Middle East. It covers the bulk of the Arabian Peninsula and has a land area of about 2 150 000 km 2 (830 000 sq mi), making it the fifth-largest country in Asia and the largest in the Middle East.
- Pre-Islamic Arabia
- Spread of Islam
- Umayyad and Abbasid Periods
- Ottoman Era
- Unification
- Modern History
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- Further Reading
There is evidence that human habitation in the Arabian Peninsula dates back to about 63,000 years ago. Nevertheless, stone tools from the Middle Paleolithicage, along with fossils of other animals discovered at Ti's al Ghadah, in northwestern Saudi Arabia, might imply that hominids migrated through a "Green Arabia" between 300,000 and 500,000 years...
Muhammad, the Prophet of Islam, was born in Mecca in about 570 and first began preaching in the city in 610, before migrating to Medina in 622. From there, he and his companions united the tribes of Arabia under the banner of Islamand created a single Arab Muslim religious polity in the Arabian Peninsula. Following Muhammad's death in 632, Abu Bakr...
After the fall of the Umayyad empire in 750 CE, most of what was to become Saudi Arabia reverted to traditional tribal rule soon after the initial Muslim conquests, and remained a shifting patchwork of tribes and tribal emiratesand confederations of varying durability. Muawiyah I, the first Umayyad caliph, took an interest in his native Mecca, erec...
Beginning with Selim I's acquisition of Medina and Mecca in 1517, the Ottomans, in the 16th century, added to their empire the Hejaz and Asir regions along the Red Sea and the al-Hasa region on the Persian Gulf coast, these being the most populous parts of what was to become Saudi Arabia. They also laid claim to the interior, although this remained...
In 1902, Abdul-Aziz Al Saud, leader of the Al Saud, returned from exile in Kuwait to resume the conflict with the Al Rashid, and seized Riyadh—the first of a series of conquests creating the Third Saudi State, and ultimately leading to the creation of the modern state of Saudi Arabia in 1930. The main weapon for achieving these conquests was the Ik...
Although Abdulaziz had military and political success, the country struggled economically until commercial volumes of oil were discovered in 1938 in the Al-Hasa region, along the Persian Gulfcoast. Development began in 1946, after being delayed due to World War II. By 1949, oil production was in full swing. In February 1945, Abdulaziz and U.S. Pres...
Bowen, Wayne H. The History of Saudi Arabia(The Greenwood Histories of the Modern Nations, 2007)Determann, Jörg. Historiography in Saudi Arabia: Globalization and the State in the Middle East(2013)Kostiner, Joseph. The Making of Saudi Arabia, 1916–1936: From Chieftaincy to Monarchical State(1993)Parker, Chad H. Making the Desert Modern: Americans, Arabs, and Oil on the Saudi Frontier, 1933–1973(U of Massachusetts Press, 2015), 161 pp.Geschichte Saudi-Arabiens. Darstellung der Moschee und der Kaaba in Mekka aus dem 18. Jahrhundert. Die Geschichte Saudi-Arabiens umfasst die Entwicklungen auf dem Gebiet des Königreiches Saudi-Arabien von der Urgeschichte bis zur Gegenwart. Sie reicht bis ins Paläolithikum zurück.
Vor 2 Tagen · Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia, arid, sparsely populated kingdom of the Middle East. It is ruled by the Saud family, which in the 18th century entered an alliance with the austere and conservative Wahhābī Islamic movement.
The history of of Saudi Arabia as a nation state began with the Al Saud dynasty in 1727. The territory that is modern Saudi Arabia was the site of several ancient cultures and civilizations. The prehistory of Saudi Arabia shows some of the earliest traces of human activity in the world.
Saudi-Arabien ist eine absolute Monarchie in Vorderasien. Es liegt auf der Arabischen Halbinsel und grenzt an deren Anrainerstaaten, an das Rote Meer und den Persischen Golf. Das Land besteht in seinen heutigen Grenzen seit 1932. Hauptstadt und größte Stadt des Landes ist Riad, die zweitgrößte ist die Hafenstadt Dschidda.
