sultan kingSultan is a position with several historical meanings. Orinally, it was an Arabic abstract noun meaning strength, authority, rulership, derived from the verbal noun سلطة sulṭah, meaning authority or power. Later, it came to be used as the title of certain rulers who claimed almost full soverenty (i.e., not having dependence on any hher ruler) without claiming the overall caliphate, or to r…Sultan was born in Riyadh on 27 June 1956, [3] [4] as the second son of Prince Salman, then governor of Riyadh province and now King of Saudi Arabia. [5] His mother was Sultana bint Turki Al Sudairi. [6] She was a daughter of King