Ar Riyad

Riyadh or Ar Riyad is the capital and most crowded city of Saudi Arabia, roughly 790 km North-east of Mecca. It is likewise the capital of Riyadh Province and has a place with the recorded locales of Najd and Al-Yamama. It is arranged in the focal point of the Arabian Peninsula on an expansive level and home to in excess of six million people. The city is separated into 15 city areas, overseen by the Municipality of Riyadh headed by the leader of Riyadh, and the Development Authority of Riyadh which is led by the legislative leader of the Province, Faisal canister Bandar Al Saud. The present leader is Ibrahim Mohammed Al-Sultan.

Amid the Pre-Islamic time the city at the site of present day Riyadh was called Hajr, and was apparently established by the clan of Banu Hanifa. Hajr filled in as the capital of the area of Al-Yamamah, whose governors were in charge of the vast majority of focal and eastern Arabia amid the Umayyad and Abbasid periods. Al-Yamamah split far from the Abbasid Empire in 866 and the territory fell under the administer of the Ukhaydhirites, who moved the capital from Hajr to close-by Al-Kharj. The city at that point went into an extensive stretch of decrease. In the fourteenth century, North African voyager Ibn Battuta composed of his visit to Hajr, portraying it as "the principle city of Al-Yamamah, and its name is Hajr".