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The governorates of Riyadh Region. The Riyadh Province (Arabic: منطقة الرياض Manṭiqat ar-Riyāḍ), also known as the Riyadh Region, is a province of Saudi Arabia, located in the geographic center of the country and the center of the Arabian Peninsula.
During the Pre-Islamic era, the city at the site of modern Riyadh was called Hajr (Arabic: حجر), and was reportedly founded by the tribe of Banu Hanifa. [18] [19] Hajr served as the capital of the province of Al-Yamamah, whose governors were responsible for most of central and eastern Arabia during the Umayyad and Abbasid eras.
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Location of Riyadh Governorate in Riyadh Province Riyadh Governorate Coordinates: 24°41′47″N 46°46′43″E / 24.69639°N 46.77861°E / 24.69639; 46
The Governorates of Saudi Arabia, officially the Governorates of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, (Arabic: محافظات المملكة العربية السعودية) are the 136 governorates (second-level administrative division) that form the 13 emirates of Saudi Arabia.
Ahmed Hussein al-Sharaa was born on 29 October 1982 in Riyadh to a middle-class family. [ 22 ] [ 23 ] [ 24 ] His father worked there as an oil engineer, and his mother was a geography teacher. [ 25 ] The family returned to Syria in 1989, settling in the affluent Mezzeh neighborhood of Damascus , where his father opened a real estate office.
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After the unification of Saudi Arabia, the kingdom was divided into four provinces: the 'Asir Province, Al Hasa' Province, the Hejaz Province and the Najd Province. [1]King Fahd bin Abdulaziz Al Saud issued Royal Order A/92 on March 2, 1992, known as Law of the Provinces, [4] which provided for the division of the kingdom into 13 provinces.