Abdullah Al-Salim Al-Sabah

Ruler of Sheikhdom of Kuwait from 1950 to 1965

Sheikh Abdullah III Al-Salim Al-Sabah (Arabic: الشيخ عبد الله الثالث السالم الصباح; 1895 – 24 November 1965) was the eleventh ruler of the Sheikhdom of Kuwait from 1950 to 1961 and the first Emir of the State of Kuwait after the country gained its independence from Great Britain on 19 June 1961.

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