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Saudi Arabia was never formally colonized or turned into a protectorate, however, the Sultanate of Oman, the United Arab Emirates, Yemen, Qatar, and Kuwait (various Arabian states) were all British Protectorates. (This is different from a colony but does underlie a foreign authority and a subservient national group.) At this point, Saudi Arabia was composed of two regions Nejd (which was non-governed in this period) and Hejaz which constituted part of the Ottoman Empire. The Treaty of Versailles carved Hejaz out of the Ottoman Empire in 191 and was then conquered by Nejd in 1922. As Nejd was ruled by the Saudi royal family, they called the new Nejd-Hejaz union as Saudi Arabia.

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