المملكة: Al -Diriyah is the capital of foundation .. a castle witness to historical events

From the stone of Al -Yamamah to Diriyah, about a thousand centuries ago, a witness to one of the greatest migrations in the history of the Arab land, until Prince Manea bin Rabia Al -Muridi moved in 1446 AD from the first Diriyah in the eastern Arabian Peninsula to its middle, passing the sands of Al -Dahna during his journey, wanting to Establishing a civil state that achieves security and stability.
On the banks of the Hanifa Valley, the second foundations of Diriyah were founded in the position of Ghusaybah and the albumid, which are located northwest of the city of Hajar, so he made a barrier to his headquarters and the rule and built a wall for it, and made Melbid as the seat of agriculture and development.

Mosque

The historian Othman bin Bishr describes Al -Diriyah by saying: “This town was the most powerful country, the strength of its people, the large number of its men and their money is not counted by the census.
He explains that the money that enters into its people from all the other races that they have with the travelers of them, and from the people of the countries, was not aware of a book, and the interior in its mousse did not lose any of the people of the horizons, from Yemen, Thamhama, Hijaz, Oman, Bahrain, Badia al -Sham and Iraq, and people from their present, To other people of the horizons who are long, this is within it, and this is outside it, and this is settler in it.

It shows that the role was only rarely, and its prices were 7 thousand riyals and 5 thousand, and the two thousand riyals, less and more, and everything, with its ability to appreciate this appreciation from the small and the large and the healing of one shop in one month, reached 45 riyals.
The high cost of firewood and wood was to the end, until it was said that carrying firewood reached five or six, and the arm from the large wooden wood, and all its homes are baccalaureates and palaces.

Diriyah detailing

The French historian Cornesier says about the description of Diriyah: “Al -Diriyah, the city of its construction from a stone that is width half of Faras, and its length is three times its width and extends between two neighborhoods, one to the left, which is (Al -Tarif) the headquarters of the Al Saud, and the second to the east, which is (Al -Bajiri) the head of the Sheikh, It has 28 mosques and 30 schools.
In its markets (Hanate) from the reeds, it can be transferred from place to place, and they appreciate the number of Diriyah homes at 2500 house built with stones and brick.
He explains that the city is not immune, but it is located at the foot of a series of high mountains, extending from north to south, and it is called (Tuwaiq), and people pass a valley in the south to reach it to the western areas of Najd.

Diriyah Renault also described the British navy officer at the time of Imam Abdulaziz bin Muhammad in 1220 AH (1805 AD) by saying: Al -Diriyah is a small city, but it is a wonderful beautiful based on the Arabic style, and the housing is very healthy, and the city is surrounded by the city From a small eye.

The movement in the city

The historian Ibn Bishr describes the Diriyah and its markets and the features of its economic situation in the time of Imam Saud bin Abdul Aziz by saying: I have seen the armor and what its people have of money and the large number of men and the local weapon with gold and silver, and what they have of horse horses, carpentry Omani, luxurious clothes and luxuries that are unable to count the tongue, About restricting paradise and Lebanon.

He continues: I looked at its season one day while I was in a high place between its western homes in which the Al Saud family is known as the funny, and between its eastern homes known as Al -Bejair One of the deals of buying, selling, taking, giving, etc., which is the extension of the sight, you only hear in it, such as the bees in the murmur.
He says: “I sent and bought the shops on its eastern and western sides filled with demolition, fabric, gauges, and other luggage.”