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| Subject: Funny: California is the last surviving Muslim Caliphate! Thu Apr 25, 2013 4:45 am | |
| There is general agreement that author García Ordóñez de Montalvo formed the place name "California" from the Spanish word califa, from the Arabic: خليفة ḫalīfah/khalīfah, the head of state in a Caliphate, a legacy of the Moorish empire within Spain from 757 to 1492. Origins of California |
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