Confederacy or confederate may refer to:

States or communities

Confederate state A confederation (also known as a confederacy or league) is a union of sovereign groups or states united for purposes of common action. Usually created by a treaty, confederations of states tend to be established for dealing with critical issu ...

or confederation, a union of sovereign groups or communities *

Confederate States of America The Confederate States of America (CSA), commonly referred to as the Confederate States or the Confederacy was an unrecognized breakaway republic in the Southern United States that existed from February 8, 1861, to May 9, 1865. The Confeder ...

, a confederation of secessionist American states that existed between 1861 and 1865 **

Military forces of the Confederate States The military forces of the Confederate States, also known as Confederate forces, were the military services responsible for the defense of the Confederacy during its existence (1861–1865). Organization The military forces of the Confederat ...

, the Army, Marine Corps, and Navy of the Confederacy *

Confederate Ireland Confederate Ireland, also referred to as the Irish Catholic Confederation, was a period of Irish Catholic self-government between 1642 and 1649, during the Eleven Years' War. Formed by Catholic aristocrats, landed gentry, clergy and military ...

, a period of Irish self-government during the Eleven Years' War *

Canadian Confederation Canadian Confederation (french: Confédération canadienne, link=no) was the process by which three British North American provinces, the Province of Canada, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick, were united into one federation called the Canada, Dom ...

, the 1867 unification of the three parts of Canada into the Dominion of Canada *

Confederation of the Rhine The Confederated States of the Rhine, simply known as the Confederation of the Rhine, also known as Napoleonic Germany, was a confederation of German client states established at the behest of Napoleon some months after he defeated Austria an ...

, a group of French client states that existed during the Napoleonic Wars *

Catalan-Aragonese Confederation The Crown of Aragon ( , ) an, Corona d'Aragón ; ca, Corona d'Aragó, , , ; es, Corona de Aragón ; la, Corona Aragonum . was a composite monarchy ruled by one king, originated by the dynastic union of the Kingdom of Aragon and the County of Ba ...

, a group of Spanish states that were governed by one king *

Gaya confederacy Gaya (, ) was a Korean confederacy of territorial polities in the Nakdong River basin of southern Korea, growing out of the Byeonhan confederacy of the Samhan period. The traditional period used by historians for Gaya chronology is AD 42–53 ...

, an ancient grouping of territorial polities in southern Korea *

German Confederation The German Confederation (german: Deutscher Bund, ) was an association of 39 predominantly German-speaking sovereign states in Central Europe. It was created by the Congress of Vienna in 1815 as a replacement of the former Holy Roman Empire, w ...

, an association of German-speaking states prior to German Unification *

Iroquois Confederacy The Iroquois ( or ), officially the Haudenosaunee ( meaning "people of the longhouse"), are an Iroquoian-speaking confederacy of First Nations peoples in northeast North America/ Turtle Island. They were known during the colonial years to ...

, group of united Native American nations in present-day Canada and the United States *

Maratha Confederacy The Maratha Empire, also referred to as the Maratha Confederacy, was an early modern Indian confederation that came to dominate much of the Indian subcontinent in the 18th century. Maratha rule formally began in 1674 with the coronation of Shi ...

, a group of Indian states in the 1700s *

North German Confederation The North German Confederation (german: Norddeutscher Bund) was initially a German military alliance established in August 1866 under the leadership of the Kingdom of Prussia, which was transformed in the subsequent year into a confederated st ...

, a federation in northern Germany from 1867 to 1870 *

Peru–Bolivian Confederation The Peru–Bolivian Confederation was a short-lived state that existed in South America between 1836 and 1839. The country was a loose confederation between the states of Peru, divided into the Republic of North Peru and the Republic of South Pe ...

, a federation of several states in present day Peru and Bolivia that existed between 1836 and 1839 *

Powhatan Confederacy The Powhatan people (; also spelled Powatan) may refer to any of the indigenous Algonquian people that are traditionally from eastern Virginia. All of the Powhatan groups descend from the Powhatan Confederacy. In some instances, The Powhatan ...

, a group of Native American tribes on the Atlantic coast governed by a single chief *

Sikh Confederacy The Misls (derived from an Arabic word مِثْل meaning 'equal') were the twelve sovereign states of the Sikh Confederacy, which rose during the 18th century in the Punjab region in the northern part of the Indian subcontinent and is cit ...

, a group of states confederated during the 18th century in the Punjab region *

Swiss Confederation ). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzona, Lausanne, Luzern, Neuchâtel ...

or Switzerland, a federal republic in Europe **

Old Swiss Confederacy The Old Swiss Confederacy or Swiss Confederacy (German language, Modern German: ; historically , after the Swiss Reformation, Reformation also , "Confederation of the Swiss") was a loose confederation of independent small states (, German or ...

, a confederation that was the predecessor of the current Swiss state *

Three Confederate States of Gojoseon The three Gojoseon kingdoms are states thought to have existed according to ''Joseon Sangosa'' (1924–25). The concept gained a following among several fringe historians, although it is not completely accepted by mainstream scholars. In popula ...

, states thought to have existed in present day Korea during the Bronze Age *

Northwestern Confederacy The Northwestern Confederacy, or Northwestern Indian Confederacy, was a loose confederacy of Native Americans in the Great Lakes region of the United States created after the American Revolutionary War. Formally, the confederacy referred to it ...

, a group of Native American tribes in the Great Lakes region that united after the American revolution

Fictional confederacies

Breen Confederacy The Breen are a fictional extraterrestrial species featured in the ''Star Trek'' science fiction franchise. They were first mentioned in "The Loss", a fourth-season episode of '' Star Trek: The Next Generation'' which first aired in 1990. Referen ...

, a political entity in the ''Star Trek'' universe *

Capellan Confederation ''BattleTech'' is a wargaming and military science fiction franchise launched by FASA Corporation in 1984, acquired by WizKids in 2001, which was in turn acquired by Topps in 2003; and published since 2007 by Catalyst Game Labs. The trademark ...

, a political entity in the ''Battletech'' universe *

Galactic Confederacy Xenu (), also called Xemu, is a figure in the Church of Scientology's secret "Advanced Technology", a sacred and esoteric teaching. According to the "Technology", Xenu was the extraterrestrial ruler of a "Galactic Confederacy" who brought bil ...

, part of the Scientology mythos *

Terran Confederacy Blizzard Entertainment's real-time strategy game series '' StarCraft'' revolves around interstellar affairs in a distant sector of the galaxy, with three species and multiple factions all vying for supremacy in the sector. The playable species of ...

, a political entity in the ''StarCraft'' universe * Terran Confederation (''Wing Commander''), a political entity in the ''Wing Commander'' universe *

Confederacy of Independent Systems The Clone Wars are a series of fictional conflicts in the ''Star Wars'' franchise by George Lucas. Though mentioned briefly in the first ''Star Wars'' film (''A New Hope'', 1977), the war itself was not depicted until ''Attack of the Clones'' (2 ...

, a secessionist political entity in the ''Star Wars'' universe

Other uses

Confederacy (British political group) The Confederacy was a society within the British Conservative Party that enthusiastically promoted Joseph Chamberlain's campaign for tariff reform. A founder of the society, Henry Page Croft, later wrote, "It was started by three or four of us who ...

, a society within the British Conservative Party during the early twentieth century * ''Confederates'' (novel), a novel by Thomas Keneally * ''Confederate'' (TV series), a cancelled HBO television program

States or communities

Fictional confederacies

Other uses

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