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	The Seriph is the ruler of [[Klatch]] (the nation - not the continent). The last known Seriph was [[Creosote]], at the time of ''[[Sourcery]]''.		The '''Seriph''' is the ruler of [[Klatch]] (the nation - not the continent). The last known Seriph was [[Creosote]], at the time of ''[[Sourcery]]''.

	By the time of ''[[Jingo]]'', whilst a Seriph remained at least nominally at the head of Klatchian government, affairs of state were seemingly handled by a number of princes, in particular Prince [[Cadram]].		By the time of ''[[Jingo]]'', whilst a Seriph remained at least nominally at the head of Klatchian government, affairs of state were seemingly handled by a number of princes, in particular Prince [[Cadram]].

	[[William de Worde]] was his correspondent in Ankh Morpork.		[[William de Worde]] was his correspondent in Ankh Morpork.


	==Annotations==		==Annotations==

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	By the time of ''[[Jingo]]'', whilst a Seriph remained at least nominally at the head of Klatchian government, affairs of state were seemingly handled by a number of princes, in particular Prince [[Cadram]].		By the time of ''[[Jingo]]'', whilst a Seriph remained at least nominally at the head of Klatchian government, affairs of state were seemingly handled by a number of princes, in particular Prince [[Cadram]].

	[[William de Worde]] was his ~~correspondant~~ in Ankh Morpork.		[[William de Worde]] was his correspondent in Ankh Morpork.


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	Presumably Seriph is a cross between that and "Seraph" - a celestial being: the first of the nine orders of angels in medieval Christian angelology - as well as a reference to a seriph/serif, the typographical term for the flat bits that stick out at the end of the main line of a letter (this font is ''sans serif'').		Presumably Seriph is a cross between that and "Seraph" - a celestial being: the first of the nine orders of angels in medieval Christian angelology - as well as a reference to a seriph/serif, the typographical term for the flat bits that stick out at the end of the main line of a letter (this font is ''sans serif'').


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The Seriph is the ruler of [[Klatch]] (the nation - not the continent). The last known Seriph was [[Creosote]], at the time of ''[[Sourcery]]''.

By the time of ''[[Jingo]]'', whilst a Seriph remained at least nominally at the head of Klatchian government, affairs of state were seemingly handled by a number of princes, in particular Prince [[Cadram]].

[[William de Worde]] was his correspondant in Ankh Morpork.

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The [[Roundworld]] equivalent is "Caliph".

A "Caliph" (pronounced ''khaleef'' in Arabic) is the head of state in a Caliphate, and the title for the leader of the Islamic Ummah, or global Islamic nation. It is a transliterated version of the Arabic word خليفة ''Khalīfah'', which means "successor" or "representative".

Presumably Seriph is a cross between that and "Seraph" - a celestial being: the first of the nine orders of angels in medieval Christian angelology - as well as a reference to a seriph/serif, the typographical term for the flat bits that stick out at the end of the main line of a letter (this font is ''sans serif'').

[[Category:Discworld concepts]]
[[Category:Discworld culture]]
[[de:Serif von Al Khali]]