Diriyah

Diriyah is a town and governorate in . Located on the northwestern outskirts of the Saudi capital, , 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.
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  • Type: Town with 43,300 residents
  • Description: city in Saudi Arabia
  • Also known as: “Ad Dir’iyah”, “Ad Dir`iyah”, “Ad-Diriyah”, “AdDiriyah”, “Al-Dir‘iyya”, “Al-Dir`iyya”, “Al-Diriyah”, “AlDiriyah”, “Dara’iyah”, “Dara’īyah”, “Dariyya”, “Deraya”, “Dereyeh”, “Dhahara”, “Dhariyah”, and “Dharīyah”

Places of Interest

Highlights include At-Turaif District in ad-Dir’iyah.

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At-Turaif is a historic district located in Diriyah, north-west of . It is regarded as one of the more important political and historical sites in , as it represented the capital of the early Saudi kingdom.

Diriyah

Latitude
24.7483° or 24° 44′ 54″ north
Longitude
46.5718° or 46° 34′ 18″ east
Population
43,300
Elevation
600 metres (1,969 feet)
Open location code
7HP8PHXC+8P
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1236703790
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
110312
Wiki­data ID
Q277505
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Diriyah” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “الدرعية”
  • Arabic: “الدرعيه”
  • Arabic: “مدينة الدرعية”
  • Arabic: “منطقة الدرعية”
  • Asturian: “Diriyah”
  • Azerbaijani: “Diriyyə”
  • Bashkir: “Әд-Дәрғиә”
  • Basque: “Diriyah”
  • Belarusian: “Эд-Дыр’іа”
  • Belarusian: “Эд-Дырыя”
  • 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”
  • Galician: “Diriyah”
  • Georgian: “დირაია”
  • German: “Ad Dir`iyah”
  • 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”
  • Uzbek: “Ad - Diriya”
  • Vietnamese: “Dir’iyah”

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