caliphate

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Noun caliphate has 3 senses

Caliphate - the era of Islam's ascendaancy from the death of Mohammed until the 13th century; some Moslems still maintain that the Moslem world must always have a calif as head of the community; "their goal was to reestablish the Caliphate"
--₁ is a kind of era, epoch
caliphate - the territorial jurisdiction of a caliph
--₂ is a kind of jurisdiction
caliphate - the office of a caliph
--₃ is a kind of position, post, berth, office, spot, billet, place, situation

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