State · 1744 – 1818

First Saudi state

A state of 1744 – 1818 — 74 years in the Middle East and North Africa. It replaced Bani Khalid Emirate and Sheikhdom of Diriyah. It was replaced by Second Saudi state. The atlas records 7 things within it — wars and battles 4 · people 3. Its line of rulers holds 4 people.

Wikidata's English label: First Saudi State.

For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.

Stood: 74 years; 1744 – 1818
Rulers: 4; the head of state
Most ground: 2.29 million km²; in 1811
Within it: 7; recorded rows
Symbol: 1; on record, with years

Map: First Saudi state in 1811, its borders in gold among its neighbours — First Saudi state in 1811, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 2.29 million km². Its neighbours wear their tints, as on the atlas's own map. Borders from Cliopatria (CC BY 4.0), coast and rivers from Natural Earth, cities from Reba, Reitsma & Seto 2016 (CC BY 4.0), each city under the name it bore that year.

First Saudi state in 1744, first mapped — The rise and the fall in one frame: the same ground at the years the borders dataset first maps it, maps it largest, and last maps it.

First Saudi state in 1811, at its largest — The rise and the fall in one frame: the same ground at the years the borders dataset first maps it, maps it largest, and last maps it.

Where it sits in time

Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold, what it replaced or followed and what replaced or followed it in grey.

Before and after

The states the record files it as replacing or following, and those that replaced or followed it - Wikidata's own statements, each read from this state's side.

Before it

Bani Khalid Emirate · replaces · 1669 – 1796
Sheikhdom of Diriyah · replaces · 1446 – 1744

After it

Second Saudi state · replaced by · 1818 – 1891

Rulers

The line of head of state.

killed, executed or dead in battledied in office

Ruler	Reign	Length	How it ended · source	To the ruler before
Muhammad bin Saud Al Muqrin	1744 – 1765	21 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Abdulaziz bin Muhammad Al Saud	1765 – 1803	38 years	killedWikidata's manner of death	child
Saud bin Abdulaziz Al Saud	1803 – 1814	11 years	died in office of natural causesWikidata's manner of death	child
Abdullah bin Saud Al Saud	1814 – 1818	4 years	executedWikidata's manner of death	child

4 rulers, 4 with terms dated as terms, covering 1744 – 1818. Median reign 16 years. 1 of 3 handovers irregular - a killing, a deposition, a rival claimant, a rising or a coup beside it. A blank in the last column means no kin on record, which is coverage, never “unrelated”.

Ground held, by year

km² inside its borders as the borders dataset draws them, measured on an equal-area grid; a step series, held between the years the dataset maps.

5,600 km² in 1744, 967,600 km² in 1818; at its largest 1.85 million km² in 1814. Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0.

Flag or arms

Each symbol with the years its own statement gives; the timeline flies the one of the year on screen.

flag, undatedFlag of the First and Second Saudi State (1744-1891) · Public domain

What happened within it, by century

Every row the atlas hosts under this state, by the century it began in: wars and battles in red, risings, regime changes and massacres beside them, everything else in grey. A tall bar is a century the record is full for, which is partly a fact about Wikipedia.

1700 – 17993 rows

Abdulaziz bin Muhammad Al Saud · ruler · 1701 – 1803
Abdullah bin Saud Al Saud · ruler · 1785 – 1818
Saud bin Abdulaziz Al Saud · ruler · 1750 – 1814

1800 – 18994 rows · 4 wars and battles

Ottoman–Wahhabi war · war · 1811 – 1818
Capture of Mecca · battle · 1813
Battle of Medina · battle · 1812
Capture of Jeddah · battle · 1813

Among all states

Each measure against the states that carry it, never against all of them: a bar is the share of those states below this one.

How long it stood74 years
stood longer than 41% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
The most ground it held2,286,800 km²
held more ground at its peak than 92% of 1,465 states with a border in Cliopatria.
Wars recorded per century1.0
had more wars on record per century than 94% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.
How long a reign lasted, at the median21 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 66% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
Rulers on record4
has more rulers on record than 58% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.

What led to it, and what came of it

The investigation's own picture: 3 causes the record names and 1 result, the strongest six of each at their own years, joined to the state by the kind of claim - a recorded statement solid, the article's sentence dashed, a theory dash-dot.

linkedcoincidence

Open the investigation: every row with its evidence, the conditions at the time, the theories condition by condition, and the succession analysed.

Open in the atlas

On the timeline, 1734 – 1828, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 1811, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q146871 (CC0) · borders Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0 · coast and rivers Natural Earth · symbols from Wikimedia Commons, each credited above · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.