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Sunday, April 27, 2008


Caliph’s Domain

Here’s a little smart factoid from student student, in case you didn’t already know this. I know some or most all of you are probably angry that California remains a part of the United States. Here is what my textbook says:

“The word California first appears in the eleventh-century epic poem The Song of Roland; there it literally means the ‘caliph’s domain’—the Caliph of Baghdad ruled the Islamic Empire then…” (Cateora, Graham, p. 483)
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