Diriyah
Diriyah is a town and governorate in Saudi Arabia. Located on the northwestern outskirts of the Saudi capital, Riyadh, Diriyah was the original home of the House of Saud, and served as the capital of the Emirate of Diriyah under the first Saudi dynasty from 1727 to 1818.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: city with 43,300 residents
- Description: ميت غمر
- Also known as: “اتميده” and “مصر”
Diriyah
- Category: human settlement
- Location: Nejd, Saudi Arabia, Middle East, Asia
Population
43,300Wikidata ID
Q277505
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Diriyah” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “الدرعية”
- Arabic: “الدرعيه”
- Asturian: “Diriyah”
- Azerbaijani: “Diriyyə”
- Bashkir: “Әд-Дәрғиә”
- Basque: “Diriyah”
- Belarusian: “Эд-Дыр’іа”
- Catalan: “Diriyah”
- Cebuano: “Ad Dir‘īyah”
- Chinese: “德尔伊叶”
- Chinese: “德拉伊耶”
- Chinese: “迪里耶”
- Croatian: “Al-Dirija”
- Croatian: “Diraja”
- Czech: “Dirijá”
- Czech: “Diriyah”
- Danish: “Ad-Dir’iyah”
- Danish: “Al-Diriyah”
- Danish: “Diriyah”
- Dutch: “Ad-Dir’iyah”
- Dutch: “Al-Diriyah”
- Egyptian Arabic: “الدرعيه”
- Esperanto: “Dirija”
- Finnish: “Dariyah”
- Finnish: “Dirijja”
- Finnish: “Diriyah”
- French: “Dariya”
- Georgian: “დირაია”
- German: “Dir’iyah”
- German: “Diriyya”
- German: “Dirʿiyya”
- Hebrew: “א-דרעיה”
- Hungarian: “ed-Diríja”
- Indonesian: “Diriyah”
- Irish: “Diriyah”
- Italian: “Daraeia”
- Italian: “Dariyya”
- Italian: “Dereyeh”
- Italian: “Dirʿiyya”
- Japanese: “ディルイーヤ”
- Kazakh: “Әд-Дирғия”
- Kazakh: “Әд-Дирия”
- Kazakh: “Дирғия”
- Lithuanian: “Dirija”
- Macedonian: “Дираџа”
- Malayalam: “ദിരിയ”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Darayeh”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Diriyah”
- Norwegian: “Darayeh”
- Persian: “درعیه”
- Polish: “Ad-Dirijja”
- Portuguese: “Al-Diriyah”
- Portuguese: “Daria”
- Portuguese: “Diriyah”
- Romanian: “Diriyah”
- Russian: “Ад-Дирийя”
- Russian: “Эд-Диръия”
- Serbian: “Дираџа”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Diraja”
- Sindhi: “درعيہ”
- Sindhi: “رياست درعيہ”
- Slovenian: “Dirija”
- Spanish: “Diriyah”
- Swedish: “Darayeh”
- Swedish: “Diriyah”
- Tagalog: “Diriyah”
- Talysh: “Dirijjə”
- Turkish: “Diriye”
- Ukrainian: “Ед-Дірійя”
- Urdu: “درعیہ”
- Vietnamese: “Dir’iyah”
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