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Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud

سلمان بن عبد العزيز آل سعود ar سلمان بن عبدالعزیز fa

King of Saudi Arabia since 2015

  • Child of Ibn Saud and Hassa bint Ahmed Al Sudairi
  • Married to Fahdah bint Falah bin Hathlain Alajmi, Sultana bint Turki Al Sudairi
  • Dated from 31 December 1935 CE

King of Saudi Arabia
Governor of Riyadh Region
House of Saud Council

Offices on record

Overview

From Wikipedia, quoted unmodified under CC BY-SA 4.0; the article’s history is its list of authors.

Life

Roles and affiliation

Holding an office is not parentage and not discipleship.

What this means

As the records give them: every row is a third party’s statement, not a self-description, and a role or an affiliation is often held for one period of a life only. An affiliation is not a belief, and this site does not ask anyone about theirs. For an office: which one, for how long, and where the records give an ordinal or the holders either side. Recognition of a tenure is never universal: contested lines appear as overlapping tenures rather than as one corrected sequence.

Offices held 7

  1. 4 February 1963 CE – 5 November 2011 CE Governor of Riyadh Region Succeeded Nayef bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud · Succeeded by Sattam bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud
  2. 22 October 2011 CE – 23 January 2015 CE Minister of Defence Succeeded Sultan bin Abdulaziz · Succeeded by Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud Has references
  3. 18 June 2012 CE – 23 January 2015 CE Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia Succeeded Nayef bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud · Succeeded by Muqrin bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud
  4. from 23 January 2015 CE King of Saudi Arabia Number 19 in the sequence Succeeded Abdullah of Saudi Arabia Has references
  5. 23 January 2015 CE – 27 September 2022 CE Prime Minister of Saudi Arabia Succeeded Abdullah of Saudi Arabia · Succeeded by Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud Has references

Family

The family of Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud

Parents, spouses and children as the records give them.

Documented family only. A teacher, a successor or a patron is never drawn in this tree.

As documented
The family as a list · 62

Family 62

What this means

A documented human family relationship. Not a succession mechanism, and not religious transmission.

Does not imply a right to an office · transmission of a teaching · a religious affiliation held by the whole house · continuous rule · a shared religious affiliation

Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.

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Connections

How Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud connects

Grouped by the kind of relationship, because a successor is not a son and a shared symbol is not an influence.

Affiliation 1

What this means

Association with a tradition or school. Traditions branch, overlap and re-merge; this is not a clean single-origin tree.

Does not imply a fixed roster · that every account of the tradition knows this figure

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Recorded events and days 1

What this means

Events Wikidata records in a subject’s history, and the day a festival is kept. Not a complete history, and the day a festival falls on is not when it began.

Does not imply that these are all the events in its history · that Wikidata ranks the events by importance

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Sources

Sources and evidence

Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.

72 statements on this record

  • 21 Has references The statement cites something outside Wikimedia. That citation has not been checked here.
  • 51 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it. 1 of them cite only Wikipedia: one source, counted once.

Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.

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Data
Wikidata · CC0 1.0
Text
Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted, not merged
Pictures
Wikimedia Commons · each file’s own terms

Review

Not yet read by an editor here. Every relationship on this page is an import.

Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.

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