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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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mohammed’s write never ran here, and never will.


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Rodney G. Graves

Ceterum censeo Parthia esse delendam
Latin: “Furthermore, Parthia (Persia aka modern day Iran) should be destroyed.”

Rodney Graves on April 27, 2008 at 08:29 pm

writ vice write.


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Rodney G. Graves

Ceterum censeo Parthia esse delendam
Latin: “Furthermore, Parthia (Persia aka modern day Iran) should be destroyed.”

Rodney Graves on April 27, 2008 at 08:30 pm

From Wikepedia

Some people have tried to associate the word with caliph, an Arabian world view concept that has nothing to do with America other than the historical associations to it via Spanish.

From State Symbols USA

What does the word California mean? The name California was bestowed by the Spanish conquistadors, taken from “Las Serges de Esplandian,” a Spanish romance written about 1510 which describes an imaginary island; an earthly paradise.


You don’t have to be a moron to be a liberal Democrat but it sure helps.

docdave on April 28, 2008 at 01:41 am

What is your point, ss? That the Spanish named it that because they were Muslim?


Una Salus Victus Nullam Sperare Salutem

2Hotel9 on April 28, 2008 at 06:54 am
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