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Saudi Arabia: the Arabia of the Saud family. Also the only* country unambiguously named after its rulers. * There are a few borderline cases like Liechtenstei
by resolutebat 3y ago
Saudi Arabia: the Arabia of the Saud family. Also the only* country unambiguously named after its rulers.
* There are a few borderline cases like Liechtenstein and the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan though.
- samatman 3y agoLiechtenstein isn't a borderline case at all, the country is unambiguously named after the House of Liechtenstein.
- mikhailfranco 3y agoHow about a country named after the ruler of another country: Philippines - King Philip II of Castille A country named after a city in another country: Venezuela - Little Venice A capital city named after the leader of another country: Monrovia, Liberia - after US President Monroe A country named after it's discoverer from another country: USA - Italian Amerigo Vespucci A country named after its liberator from another country: Bolivia - Venezuelan Simon Bolivar A country named after another country: Indonesia - *Indian Islands* An American state named after a fictional muslim ruler: California - from an old Spanish romance novel about a fictional *Queen Calafia,* derived from *Khalif(a)* The fortunate and unexpected discovery that serendipity is named after a country: Serendip - old Arabic/Persian name for Ceylon, Sri Lanka
- mikhailfranco 3y agoHashemite is really just an adjective for the current foreign dynasty, which is from the Hejaz on the Red Sea coast of what is now Saudi Arabia. They were defeated there by the Saudis (1924-5). The British gave the elderly Sharif exile in Cyprus, and put his sons on the thrones of Jordan (Abdullah), and Syria-then-Iraq (Faisal). These events are shown briefly at the end of Lawrence of Arabia, with Alec Guinness playing Faisal.