Confederate Memorial Bench, Holy Cross, Colma

Confederacy or confederate may refer to:

States or communities

* Confederate state or confederation, a union of sovereign groups or communities
* Confederate States of America, a confederation of secessionist American states that existed between 1861 and 1865
** Military forces of the Confederate States, the Army, Marine Corps, and Navy of the Confederacy
* Confederate Ireland, a period of Irish self-government during the Eleven Years' War
* Canadian Confederation, the 1867 unification of the three parts of Canada into the Dominion of Canada
* Confederation of the Rhine, a group of French client states that existed during the Napoleonic Wars
* Catalan-Aragonese Confederation, a group of Spanish states that were governed by one king
* Gaya confederacy, an ancient grouping of territorial polities in southern Korea
* German Confederation, an association of German-speaking states prior to German Unification
* Iroquois Confederacy, group of united Native American nations in present-day Canada and the United States
* Maratha Confederacy, a group of Indian states in the 1700s
* North German Confederation, a federation in northern Germany from 1867 to 1870
* Peru–Bolivian Confederation, a federation of several states in present day Peru and Bolivia that existed between 1836 and 1839
* Powhatan Confederacy, a group of Native American tribes on the Atlantic coast governed by a single chief
* Sikh Confederacy, a group of states confederated during the 18th century in the Punjab region
* Swiss Confederation or Switzerland, a federal republic in Europe
** Old Swiss Confederacy, a confederation that was the predecessor of the current Swiss state
* Three Confederate States of Gojoseon, states thought to have existed in present day Korea during the Bronze Age
* Northwestern Confederacy, a group of Native American tribes in the Great Lakes region that united after the American revolution

Fictional confederacies

* Breen Confederacy, a political entity in the ''Star Trek'' universe
* Capellan Confederation, a political entity in the ''Battletech'' universe
* Galactic Confederacy, part of the Scientology mythos
* Terran Confederacy, a political entity in the ''StarCraft'' universe
* Terran Confederation (''Wing Commander''), a political entity in the ''Wing Commander'' universe
* Confederacy of Independent Systems, a secessionist political entity in the ''Star Wars'' universe

Other uses

* Confederacy (British political group), 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

See also

* Confederation (disambiguation)
* '' A Confederacy of Dunces'', a novel written by John Kennedy Toole, published in 1980
* '' Condica confederata'' or the confederate, a moth in the family Noctuidae
* Confederate Motors, an American manufacturer of motorcycles
* Battle of the Confederates, a battle in early Muslim history
* Chevrolet Series BA Confederate, an automobile manufactured in 1932
* Federacy, where one or several states or regions enjoy considerably more independence than the majority
* Federation, a union comprising a number of partially self-governing states or regions united by a central government
* Baro Bhuyans, confederacies of soldier-landowners in Assam and Bengal in late middle age and early modern period

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