Sultanate of Najd

Sultanate of Najd سلطنة نجد 1921–1926
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Official language	Arabic
Capital	Riad
Form of government	monarchy
Form of government	Absolute Monarchy
Head of State and Government	Sultan Abd al-Aziz ibn Saud
surface	approx. 500,000 km²
Residents	450,000 including the Jebel Shammar emirate (1921)
currency	Saudi riyal

The Najd Sultanate ( Arabic سلطنة نجد, in German also Sultanate Nedschd ) was after the emirate of Nadschd and Hasa (1902-1921) the second state structure of the third state of the Saudis and existed from 1921 to 1926. It was an absolute monarchy under the dynasty of the Saud . This state structure of the third Saudi state came into being when Abd al-Aziz ibn Saud , the emir of Riyadh, declared himself Sultan of Najd and its suburbs. The reason for the change from an emirate to a sultanate was the conquest and annexation of the northern neighboring territory of Shammar in 1921 . After British troops withdrew from the Hejaz kingdom in 1923 , Abd al-Aziz ibn Saud attacked this Hashimite kingdom . In December 1925, the Hejaz forces capitulated. Abd al-Aziz proclaimed himself King of Hejaz in January 1926; In the same year he formed the kingdom of Hejaz and Najd from his territories , from which Saudi Arabia emerged in 1932 .

In March 1925, the Najd troops captured large stocks of Hejaz postage stamps in Mecca, which were overprinted in Arabic by the Najd Sultanate's mail in 1343 and are the first to be cataloged by the Sultanate.

See also

• History of Saudi Arabia

Individual evidence

1. ↑ basic data. Flaggenlexikon.de; accessed on November 26, 2018
2. ^ John Paxton: The Statemen's Yearbook . London 1921, p. 1348
3. ↑ Madawi Al-Rasheed: A History of Saudi Arabia . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge UK 2002, p. 63.
4. ↑ DF Warin: The Postal Issues of Hejaz, Jedddah and Nejd. W. Speaight & Son, London 1927, p. 112