King Abdulaziz Al-Saud
King Abdul-Aziz of Saudi Arabia ( عبد العزيز آل سعود) (15 January 1876 – 9 November 1953) was the first monarch of the Third Saudi State known as Saudi Arabia. He was commonly referred to as Ibn Saud.
Beginning with the reconquest of his family’s ancestral home city of Riyadh in 1902, he consolidated his control over the Najd in 1922, conquered the Hijaz in 1925. The nation was founded and unified as Saudi Arabia in 1932. As King, he presided over the discovery of petroleum in Saudi Arabia in 1938 and the beginning of large-scale oil exploitation after World War II. He was the father of many children, including all of the subsequent kings of Saudi Arabia.
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