nejd

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A vast plateau region of the central Arabian Peninsula. It was the nucleus for the modern state of Saudi Arabia. or Najd Region of central Saudi Arabia. Comprising a rocky plateau sloping eastward from the mountains of the Hejaz, it is sparsely settled, except for a few fertile oases. In the mid-18th century it became the centre of the Wahhbiyyah, a puritanical Islamic movement that by 1803 had expanded into Mecca. Nejd was captured by Ibn Sad 1905. It was united with the Hejaz and became the independent kingdom of Saudi Arabia in 1932
a central plateau region of the Arabian Peninsula; formely an independent sultanate until 1932 when it united with Hejaz to form the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia