Era
An era is a span of time defined for the purposes of chronology or historiography, as in the regnal eras in the history of a given monarchy, a calendar era used for a given calendar, or the geological eras defined for the history of Earth.
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Comparable terms are epoch, age, period, saeculum, aeon (Greek aion) and Sanskrit yuga.
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