Synonyms for caliphate
ˈkæl əˌfeɪt, -fɪt, ˈkeɪ lə-caliphate

Princeton's WordNet

1. Caliphatenoun

   the era of Islam's ascendancy 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"

2. caliphatenoun

   the territorial jurisdiction of a caliph

3. caliphatenoun

   the office of a caliph

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1. Ryan Mauro:

   One of the purposes of these photos is to show that they didn't just seize territory ; they transformed it into an attractive caliphate that is a viable alternative to other civilizations, iSIS and other Islamist groups are at odds over the legitimacy of al-Baghdadi's caliphate, but they are in agreement that this is a ‘ civilizational jihad ’ against other systems influenced by the West.

2. Donald Trump:

   What I was told by a general who I had to fire, I said,' General, how long before we get 100 % of the caliphate ?' He said,' sir, two years.' I said,' I can't take it two years.' And then I flew to Iraq.

3. Lindsey Graham:

   The only way you can protect America from another 9/11 is to destroy the caliphate, go in on the ground as part of a regional army, we can't outsource this.

4. Republican Representative Dana Rohrabacher:

   Let me suggest that attitude of our European friends may well be changing in the next six months or so when they realize that the slaughter that’s taking place in Paris and now in Brussels is part of an international movement to destroy Western civilization and replace it with a caliphate.

5. Mark Esper:

   We are not abandoning our Kurdish partner forces and Defense Mark Esper troops remain with them in other parts of Syria, we remain in close coordination with the Syrian Democratic Forces who helped us destroy the physical caliphate of ISIS, but I will not place American service members in the middle of a longstanding conflict between the Turks and the Syrian Kurds, this is not why we are in Syria.