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He was the deputy governor of Riyadh and later the governor of Riyadh for 48 years from 1963 to 2011. He was then appointed minister of defense. He was named crown prince in 2012. Salman became king in 2015 upon the death of his half-brother, King Abdullah. Since January 2024, he is the oldest surviving son of King Abdulaziz.
Along with the adjacent al-Wahah neighborhood, the district ceased to exist in May 2023 when both of them where conjoined to form the King Salman Neighborhood. [5] [6] [7] Covering an area of almost 875 acres, [8] it hosted the main office of the Ministry of Education and the premises of Riyadh College of Technology as well as Prince Sultan ...
In April 2016, on a rare visit to Egypt, King Salman of Saudi Arabia announced with Egypt's President El-Sisi an agreement to build a bridge between the two countries. [9] The announcement followed Egypt and Saudi Arabia signing an agreement on maritime border demarcation and marking the islands of Tiran and Sanafir within Saudi regional waters ...
In May 2023, al-Wahah and Salah al-Din neighborhoods were renamed as King Salman Neighborhood by Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman to honor the legacy of King Salman bin Abdulaziz and his efforts to modernize Riyadh during his period in office as the governor of Riyadh Province between 1955 and 1960 and then from 1963 to 2011. [5] [6] [7]
King Salman bin Abdulaziz: 18 April 1955 – 22 September 1960 Prince Turki bin Abdul-Aziz (on behalf of Prince Salman) 10–21 Oct 1957 – 1957; 31 October 1960 Prince Fawaz bin Abdulaziz: 11 September 1961 – 20 January 1963 Prince Badr bin Saud bin Abdulaziz: 20 Jan – 5 February 1963 Prince Salman bin Abdulaziz: 5 February 1963 – 5 ...
Sattam bin Abdulaziz was the former deputy governor of Riyadh from 1979 [2] to 2011. [10] Prince Mohammad bin Saad succeeded him in the post. [11] On 5 November 2011, Prince Sattam was appointed governor of Riyadh Province. [12] He was the 12th governor of Riyadh replacing Prince Salman in the post who was appointed defense minister. [1]
On 29 January 2015, King Salman ordered major changes to his government including a cabinet shuffle. Amongst a wide range of decrees and in a bid to streamline decision-making and make the government more efficient, the king abolished 12 public bodies – namely, the Higher Committee for Education Policy, Higher Committee for Administrative Organization, Civil Service Council, Higher ...
Following the defeat of the First Saudi State in the aftermath of the Ottoman–Wahhabi war in 1818, the palace was inhabited by Mishari bin Muhammad bin Muammar, who ruled as Riyadh's emir under the Ottoman-backed Egyptian tutelage until 1824, when Turki bin Abdullah al-Saud recaptured the city and rebuilt the palace after reinstating the Second Saudi State.