Caliphate

/ˈkælɪfeɪt/

Synonyms for "caliphate" (21 found)

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Closest matches (5)

Noun(3 words)
dynastic statehistoric polityideological caliphate

Strong matches (6)

Noun(5 words)
islamic empireislamic polityislamic statekhalifahlinguistic term

Related words (10)

Noun(5 words)
political idealreligio political idealscholarly termterminologytheocratic state

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More general

18 entries
berthconceptdoctrineempiregovernment formhistoric statehistorical polityjurisdictionlinguistic conceptofficeplacepolitical entitypositionpostscholarly termsituation

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More specific

10 entries
Abbasid caliphateFatimid caliphateRashidun caliphateUmayyad caliphateglobal caliphateimamatekhilafatpan-Islamic caliphatesultanateuniversal caliphate

Collocations

6 entries
Abbasid caliphateFatimid caliphateIslamic caliphateUmayyad caliphatecaliphate governanceearly caliphate

Inflections

1 entries

Derivations

3 entries

Sample sentences

5 total sentences available.

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The Mongols invaded Baghdad in 1258 and destroyed the Abbasid Caliphate.

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Between 622 and 750, the Islamic Caliphate conquered the entire Arabian Peninsula, Mesopotamia, and North Africa, reaching the Indus river to the east, the Iberian Peninsula to the west, and the Black, Caspian, and Aral seas to the north.

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The European Union is a new caliphate?

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The Islamists want to turn Algeria into a caliphate.

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