Nejd
Americannoun
noun
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The United States recognises the Kingdom of Hejaz and Nejd, renamed Saudi Arabia the following year.
From Reuters ● Jul. 12, 2022
After consideration, the judges determined last year that her father, an imam from the Saudi interior of Nejd, remained her legal guardian; but that a guardian only had powers to approve his ward’s marriage.
From Economist ● Mar. 8, 2016
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, its self-proclaimed caliph, has singled it out for abuse and designated the Nejd and Hijaz regions as Islamic wilayat or provinces.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 21, 2016
In Jiddah they lived in a more traditionally tolerant Hejazi city; in Riyadh they would be in the heartland of the Saudi Wahhabi fundamentalist Nejd.
From Newsweek ● Jun. 16, 2012
In the reign of Abbas, who succeeded Mehemet Ali, the Egyptian troops were driven from Nejd, and the Wahhabi state recovered its independence.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 1 "Edwardes" to "Ehrenbreitstein" by Various
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