was saudi arabia ever invaded by ANY country?

Question

it can be from ANY time frame, and when i say any time frame I mean all the way back to when saudi arabia was called mesopetimia

Answer 1

Saudi Arabia and Afghanistan are 2 such countries in the world which had never comes under any invasion.

Answer 2

1) Saudi Arabia was never called Mesopotamia, the modern country of Iraq is the area once called Mesopotamia.

2) Soviets have never invaded Arabia.

3) Saudi Arabia is a relatively recent invention dating to the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire after WWI. Even the Saudi dynasty only dates back to the 18th century. So to people that see modern Saudi Arabia as an extension of that dynasty, the Ottoman's reconquest of Arabia in the 19th century would fulfill the parameters of your question. Others would say it's never been invaded in its present form. Still others, including a bearded man rumored to be living in a Pakistani cave, would claim that the US sending troops to defend Saudi Arabia in the first Gulf War was an invasion.

Answer 3

Saudi Arabia hasn't been a county for long, It was part of the Arab empire, and then the Ottoman. The Saudi Royal Family established a Kingdom in the central regions. Their expansion was stopped when the Saudis seized Mecca and Medina, and the Ottoman Empire and Egypt invaded Arabia, captured the Saudi capital in 1818, and executed the ruling Saudi prince.

Answer 4

mesopatmia is in fact modern day iraq also known prior to this as babylon.

as for saudi. southern saudi or more oman was part of the british empire. the didnt neccesarily invade it in the modern sense. more the landed and said it was theres to the local tribes men.

the ottoman turks in world war 1 and before owned saudi.....mecca and madina and surrounding areas.

the ottomans fought the brits in the south and the brits fought (lawrence of arabia) the turks so it was more a to and fro not exactly an invasion.

to answer your question turkey / ottoman empire ruled and more or less invaded saudi. after world war 1 it became british

Answer 5

No, since it was established as a kingdom in 1932 it has never been invaded by any other foreign power.

Prior to that, it had been under control of the Ottoman Empire (Turkey) until WW-1, and then Great Britain after WW-1 until 1932.

Answer 6

the heart land of that country never been invaded until 18th century by Ottoman power and later by imperials searching for oil other than that it was only tribal invasions.

Answer 7

I do not know all the deatial but look in to BC dates.

Answer 8

the only one i know of is when the soviet union did it in the late 70s and 1980. thats when we helped the saudis, kicked the ussr's ***, (and their hockey team(woot). and of course.......unfortunately supplied osama bin ladin which later would end up suppling al queda which got us into the screwed up situation were in now.........