The Declaration of the Unification of Saudi Arabia was officially announced by Prince Faisal bin Abdulaziz, the Viceroy of Hejaz and future monarch on behalf of King Abdulaziz ibn Saud on September 23
Prince Faisal in 1942, who announced the unification in 1932 on Ibn Saud's behalf and would later himself become the king in 1964
The Ikhwan (c. 1910)
Ibn Saud inspecting the weapons that he had plundered from the Ottoman Empire after Surrender of the Emirate of Ha'il, 1922
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Faisal of Saudi Arabia
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Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud was King of Saudi Arabia from 1964 until his assassination in 1975. Before his ascension, he served as Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia from 1953 to 1964, and he was briefly r
Proclamation of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
…Saudi Arabia (Arabic: إعلان توحيد المملكة العربية السعودية, romanized: Īʿlān Taūḥīd Al-Mamlakah al-ʿArabīyah as-Suʿūdīyah) was officially announced by Prince Faisal bin Abdulaziz, the Viceroy of Hejaz and future monarch on behalf of King Abdulaziz ibn Saud on September 23, 1932 (corresponding to 21 Jumada al-Ula 1351 Hijri), at…
Formal portrait, 1945
At the age of thirteen, during his visit to the United Kingdom in 1919
Leading the Asir campaign, 1922
Visiting Camp de Satory in France, 1932