Regional1887

Battle of Riyadh

Name: War Atlas: Named Conflicts and Empire Borders, 3000 BCE – Present
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Saudi Arabia

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Battle of Riyadh (1887), part of the Saudi-Rashidi Wars. Rashidis defeated Saudis.

Belligerents2

Rashidis
Saudis

Conflict graph

PART OFUnification of Saudi Arabia

Sources

HCED — Miller & Bakar (2023), Historical Conflict Event Dataset, J. Conflict Resolution 67(2-3)
Jaques, Dictionary of Battles and Sieges (HCED primary source)

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Cite as: Battle of Riyadh (1887). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/battle-of-riyadh · Sources & methodology