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Saud bin Abdulaziz, founder of the First Saudi state
Saud bin Abdulaziz was not the founder of the First Saudi State. Credible Saudi sources identify Imam Muhammad bin Saud as the founder.
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This identifies the wrong person as the founder of the First Saudi State.
Saudi official sources say the First Saudi State was founded by Imam Muhammad bin Saud in 1727, not by Saud bin Abdulaziz. Saud bin Abdulaziz was a later ruler of that state, but not its founder.
So the article's wording incorrectly attributes the founding of the First Saudi State to Saud bin Abdulaziz.
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- Founding Day | The Embassy of The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Founding Day ... recognize the foundation of the First Saudi State in 1727 by Imam Muhammad bin Saud. The Founder, Imam Muhammad bin Saud bin Muhammad bin Muqrin, was born in Diriyah in 1679.
- Who Is the Founder of the First Saudi State? - Saudipedia
The First Saudi State was founded in 1727 by Imam Mohammed Bin Saud Bin Mohammed Bin Muqrin...
the first one, under the elder Towson Pasha, failed to take Medina. But the second one, a larger army under the command of Ibrahim Pasha, succeeded after battling a fierce resistance movement.
This reverses the roles of Muhammad Ali's sons. Scholarly sources say Tusun Pasha occupied Medina in 1812, while Ibrahim Pasha led the later campaign into Najd.
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This sentence gets the sequence of the Egyptian-Ottoman reconquest wrong.
Scholarly sources state that Tusun (Tosun) Pasha led the earlier campaign and occupied Medina in 1812 (and Mecca in 1813). Ibrahim Pasha came later and drove the Wahhabis deeper into Najd, where the campaign was completed in 1818.
So it is incorrect to say Tusun/Towson Pasha failed to take Medina and that Ibrahim Pasha was the one who succeeded in taking it.
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- The Emirs of Mecca and the Ottoman Government of Hijaz, 1840-1908
First Tosun Pasha lead the army in 1811 and occupied Medina in 1812 and Mecca in 1813. After his death İbrahim Pasha... chased the Wahhabis into the Nejd.
- The Ottomans 1700-1923: An Empire Besieged
Tusun was initially bested by the Wahhabis, but he regained Mecca and Medina by 1813... Mehmed Ali’s campaign to subdue the Wahhabis completely... would not be accomplished until 1818, when his elder son İbrahim Pasha’s army defeated them in Najd.
the population as of 2022 is 1,477,023
The 2022 city-population figure here is wrong. Saudi official statistics list Madinah's 2022 total population as 1,411,599, not 1,477,023.
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Saudi Arabia's General Authority for Statistics gives Madinah's total population in 2022 as 1,411,599 in its city-level SDG indicators table.
That contradicts the article's statement that the city's population in 2022 was 1,477,023. The larger number appears to confuse the city with a broader administrative area, but for the city itself the official figure is 1,411,599.
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- Progress achieved towards SDGs – 2024 | General Authority for Statistics (Saudi Arabia)
Item/City ... Madinah ... Total Population 2022 ... 1,411,599. The table describes these as city/urban-area totals.
The airport also received the first Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Gold certificate in the MENA region.
This overstates the airport's LEED distinction. The airport's own operator says it was the first LEED Gold-certified commercial airport terminal in MENA, not the first LEED Gold certificate in the region overall.
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The article drops an important qualifier.
The airport operator's own press release says Madinah Airport became home to the first LEED Gold certified commercial airport terminal in the MENA region. That is narrower than claiming it received the first LEED Gold certificate in the MENA region of any kind.
That broader claim is contradicted by earlier LEED Gold certifications elsewhere in the region. For example, Dubai's Prime Residency II received LEED Gold certification in 2011, years before the Madinah airport terminal announcement.
So the airport did achieve a notable first, but it was not the first LEED Gold certification in the entire MENA region.
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- Madinah Airport has been awarded LEED Gold Certificate by USGBC
The award makes Madinah Airport home to the first LEED Gold certified commercial airport terminal in MENA region.
- Prime Residency II project profile
Date of Certification: 21 October 2011 ... 'PRIME RESIDENCY II' has been awarded with Prestigious LEED GOLD Rating Certification ... It is the first residential project in the UAE to achieve the LEED NC v2.2 GOLD Certification.