- 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
- caliphate - the territorial jurisdiction of a caliph