Riyadh was first designated the capital of the Saud dynasty in 1824, when the family was extending its rule and influence across the Najd region. The territory under their control was not yet called Saudi Arabia, however, and they lost control of Riyadh from 1881 to 1902. After King Abdulaziz ibn Saud conquered the Hejaz region in the 1920s, he unified the Najd and the Hejaz as the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in 1932, with Riyadh as its capital.
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