The Mongols invaded Baghdad in 1258 and destroyed the Abbasid Caliphate.
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Caliphate
//ˈkælɪfeɪt//
Synonyms for "caliphate" (8 found)
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Related words (4)
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95 translations across 80 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- kalifaat noun (Islamic government)
Albanian
1 entries- kalifat noun (Islamic government)
Arabic
1 entries- خِلَافَة noun (Islamic government)
Aragonese
1 entries- califato noun (Islamic government)
Armenian
2 entries- խալիֆաթ noun (Islamic government)
- խալիֆայություն noun (Islamic government)
Asturian
1 entries- califatu noun (Islamic government)
Azerbaijani
2 entries- xilafət noun (Islamic government)
- xəlifəlik noun (Islamic government)
Bashkir
1 entries- хәлифәлек noun (Islamic government)
Basque
2 entries- kalifa-herri noun (Islamic government)
- kaliferri noun (Islamic government)
Belarusian
1 entries- халіфат noun (Islamic government)
Bengali
1 entries- খেলাফত noun (Islamic government)
Breton
1 entries- kalifiezh noun (Islamic government)
Bulgarian
1 entries- халифат noun (Islamic government)
Catalan
1 entries- califat noun (Islamic government)
Central Kurdish
1 entries- خەلافەت noun (Islamic government)
Chechen
1 entries- халифат noun (Islamic government)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 哈里發國 /哈里发国 noun (Islamic government)
Czech
2 entries- chalífát noun (Islamic government)
- kalifát noun (Islamic government)
Danish
1 entries- kalifat noun (Islamic government)
Dutch
1 entries- kalifaat noun (Islamic government)
Esperanto
1 entries- kalifujo noun (Islamic government)
Estonian
1 entries- kalifaat noun (Islamic government)
Finnish
1 entries- kalifaatti noun (Islamic government)
French
1 entries- califat noun (Islamic government)
Galician
1 entries- califato noun (Islamic government)
Georgian
1 entries- სახალიფო noun (Islamic government)
German
2 entries- Kalifat noun (Islamic government)
- Kalifat noun (Islamic government)
Greek
1 entries- χαλιφάτο noun (Islamic government)
Hebrew
1 entries- חֲלִיפוּת noun (Islamic government)
Hindi
2 entries- ख़िलाफ़त noun (Islamic government)
- खिलाफत noun (Islamic government)
Hungarian
1 entries- kalifátus noun (Islamic government)
Ido
1 entries- kalifeso noun (Islamic government)
Indonesian
1 entries- khilafah noun (Islamic government)
Irish
1 entries- cailifeacht noun (Islamic government)
Italian
1 entries- califfato noun (Islamic government)
Javanese
1 entries- khilafah noun (Islamic government)
Kazakh
1 entries- халифат noun (Islamic government)
Kyrgyz
1 entries- халифат noun (Islamic government)
Latvian
1 entries- kalifāts noun (Islamic government)
Lithuanian
1 entries- kalifatas noun (Islamic government)
Lower Sorbian
1 entries- kalifat noun (Islamic government)
Macedonian
1 entries- халифат noun (Islamic government)
Malagasy
1 entries- kalifaty noun (Islamic government)
Malay
1 entries- khilafah noun (Islamic government)
Malayalam
1 entries- ഖിലാഫത്ത് noun (Islamic government)
Marathi
1 entries- खिलाफत noun (Islamic government)
Northern Kurdish
2 entries- xelîfetî noun (Islamic government)
- xelîfî noun (Islamic government)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- kalifat noun (Islamic government)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- kalifat noun (Islamic government)
Occitan
1 entries- califat noun (Islamic government)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- خلافت noun (Islamic government)
Pashto
1 entries- خلافت noun (Islamic government)
Persian
1 entries- خلافت noun (Islamic government)
Polish
1 entries- kalifat noun (Islamic government)
Portuguese
1 entries- califado noun (Islamic government)
Punjabi
2 entries- خِلَافَت noun (Islamic government)
- ਖ਼ਿਲਾਫ਼ਤ noun (Islamic government)
Romanian
1 entries- califat noun (Islamic government)
Russian
1 entries- халифа́т noun (Islamic government)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- cèileafaid noun (Islamic government)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- halifat noun (Islamic government)
- kalifat noun (Islamic government)
- калифа́т noun (Islamic government)
- халифа́т noun (Islamic government)
Sicilian
1 entries- califfatu noun (Islamic government)
Sindhi
1 entries- خلافت noun (Islamic government)
Slovak
2 entries- chalífát noun (Islamic government)
- kalifát noun (Islamic government)
Slovene
1 entries- kalifat noun (Islamic government)
Spanish
1 entries- califato noun (Islamic government)
Swedish
1 entries- kalifat noun (Islamic government)
Tajik
1 entries- хилофат noun (Islamic government)
Tatar
1 entries- хәлифәлек noun (Islamic government)
Thai
1 entries- รัฐเคาะลีฟะฮ์ noun (Islamic government)
Turkish
2 entries- halifelik noun (Islamic government)
- hilafet noun (Islamic government)
Turkmen
1 entries- halifat noun (Islamic government)
Ukrainian
1 entries- халіфа́т noun (Islamic government)
Upper Sorbian
1 entries- kalifat noun (Islamic government)
Urdu
1 entries- خلافت noun (Islamic government)
Uyghur
1 entries- خەلىپىلىك noun (Islamic government)
Uzbek
2 entries- xalifalik noun (Islamic government)
- халифалик noun (Islamic government)
Vietnamese
1 entries- Vương triều Hồi giáo noun (Islamic government)
Welsh
2 entries- califfaeth noun (Islamic government)
- califfiaeth noun (Islamic government)
Yiddish
1 entries- כאַליפֿאַט noun (Islamic government)
Zazaki
1 entries- xilafet noun (Islamic government)
Sample sentences
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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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