First Saudi state
Emirate of Dir'iyah | |||||||||||||||||||
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| 1744–1818 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Status | Emirate | ||||||||||||||||||
| Capital | Diriyah | ||||||||||||||||||
| Common languages | Arabic | ||||||||||||||||||
| Religion | Sunni Islam | ||||||||||||||||||
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• Diriyah established | 1744 | ||||||||||||||||||
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| 1818 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Currency | Diriyah Riyal | ||||||||||||||||||
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The first Saudi state (Arabic: الدَّوْلَةُ السُّعُودِيَّةُ الْأُولَىٰ, romanized: Ad-Dawlatul Sa'udiyyatul Uwlah), officially the Emirate of Diriyah (Arabic: إمارة الدرعية, romanized: Imāratul Dir'iyyah), was established in 1744, when the emir of a Najdi town called Diriyah, Muhammad I, and the religious leader Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab signed a pact to found a socio-religious reform movement to propagate the Wahhabi religious doctrine under the political leadership of the House of Saud.