Dried fruit Eliot starts eating in Arab jurisdictions (10)

'arab jurisdictions' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both locations as well as being plural nouns.
Maybe there's a link between them I don't understand?

'dried fruit eliot starts eating in' is the wordplay.
'dried fruit' becomes 'sultana' (sultana is a kind of dried fruit).
'eliot' becomes 'ts' (poet TS Eliot).
'starts' says to take the initial letters.
'in' indicates putting letters inside.
The initial letter of 'eating' is 'e'.
'ts' placed around 'e' is 'tes'.
'sultana'+'tes'='SULTANATES'

Can you help me to learn more?