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- Sultan bin Abdulaziz Al Saud (c. 5 January 1928 – 22 October 2011) (Arabic: سلطان بن عبدالعزيز آل سعود, Sulṭān ibn ʿAbdulʿazīz Āl Suʿūd), called Sultan the Good (سلطان الخير, Sulṭan al Khair) in Saudi Arabia, [ 1 ] was the Saudi defense minister from 1963 to 2011 and the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia from 2005 until his death in October 2011.
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Upon becoming king in 2005, Abdullah appointed his half-brother Sultan bin Abdulaziz as crown prince. When Sultan died in 2011, Sultan's full brother Nayef was named heir to the throne, but Nayef himself died the next year.
The current monarch is King Salman, who took over in 2015 after the death of his half-brother, King Abdullah. The Al Saud family traces its roots back to the central region of the Arabian Peninsula, where its members were part of the tribe known as the Banu Saud.
Sep 20, 2024 · Abdullah of Saudi Arabia (born c. 1923—died January 23, 2015, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia) was the king of Saudi Arabia from 2005 to 2015. As crown prince (1982–2005), he had served as the country’s de facto ruler following the 1995 stroke of his half-brother King Fahd (reigned 1982–2005).
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Jun 17, 2019 · After King Abdullah's death, his half-brother Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud became the king of Saudi Arabia. Abdullah's legacy is a controversial one. In 2012, the United Nations awarded him a UNESCO Gold Medal for his efforts to promote "dialogue and peace" in the Middle East.
- Kallie Szczepanski
Jan 23, 2015 · His half brother Faisal was named Prime Minister in 1958 after another half-brother, Saud, who had assumed the throne in 1953, was persuaded to relinquish control over the government.
Jan 5, 2015 · From 1982 until 2005, Abdullah was heir apparent to his half-brother, King Fahd bin Abdulaziz. He assumed the regency of the kingdom in 1995 when Fahd suffered a stroke. In 2005, upon...
Sultan bin Abdulaziz Al Saud (c. 5 January 1928 – 22 October 2011) (Arabic: سلطان بن عبدالعزيز آل سعود, Sulṭān ibn ʿAbdulʿazīz Āl Suʿūd), called Sultan the Good (سلطان الخير, Sulṭan al Khair) in Saudi Arabia, [1] was the Saudi defense minister from 1963 to 2011 and the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia ...
