The title adopted by the successors of Mahomet, as supreme in both civil and religious matters. The principal caliphates are: the Caliphate of the East, established by Abubekr at Mecca, transferred to Bagdad by the Abassides (632-1258); the Caliphate of Cordova, established at Cordova by Abderrahman (756-1031); the Caliphate of Egypt, established by the Fatimites (909-1171). It was at Bagdad that Moslem civilisation achieved its final development.
The Nuttall Encyclopædia: Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge[1] is a late 19th-century encyclopedia, edited by Rev. James Wood, first published in London in 1900 by Frederick Warne & Co Ltd.
WikipediaEditions were recorded for 1920, 1930, 1938 and 1956 and was still being sold in 1966. Editors included G. Elgie Christ and A. L. Hayden for 1930, Lawrence Hawkins Dawson for 1938 and C. M. Prior for 1956.[2]
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