Confederacy or confederate may refer to:
States or communities
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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 Powhata ...
, a group of Native American tribes on the Atlantic coast governed by a single chief
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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. Refer ...
, a political entity in the ''Star Trek'' universe
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Capellan Confederation, a political entity in the ''Battletech'' universe
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Galactic Confederacy
Xenu (), also called Xemu, is a figure in the Church of Scientology's secret "Advanced Technology", a sacred and esotericism, esoteric teaching. According to the "Technology", Xenu was the extraterrestrial ruler of a "Galactic Confederacy" wh ...
, part of the Scientology mythos
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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
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Terran Confederation (''Wing Commander''), a political entity in the ''Wing Commander'' universe
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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
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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
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''Confederates'' (novel), a novel by Thomas Keneally
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''Confederate'' (TV series), a cancelled HBO television program
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Confederation (disambiguation)
A confederation or confederacy is a union of sovereign groups or states united for purposes of common action.
Confederation may also refer to:
* Confederation (Poland), an informal association in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
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A Confederacy of Dunces
''A Confederacy of Dunces'' is a picaresque novel by American novelist John Kennedy Toole which reached publication in 1980, eleven years after Toole's death. Published through the efforts of writer Walker Percy (who also contributed a foreword) a ...
'', a novel written by John Kennedy Toole, published in 1980
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Condica confederata
''Condica confederata'', or the confederate, is a species of moth in the family Noctuidae (the owlet moths). It is found in North America.
The MONA or Hodges number
A MONA number (short for Moths of North America), or Hodges number after Rona ...
'' or the confederate, a moth in the family Noctuidae
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Confederate Motors
Curtiss Motorcycles, previously Confederate Motors, is an American manufacturer of exotic street motorcycles in Birmingham, Alabama. It was founded in 1991 by trial lawyer H. Matthew Chambers, as an initiative seeking "enlightened design throug ...
, an American manufacturer of motorcycles
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Battle of the Confederates, a battle in early Muslim history
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Chevrolet Series BA Confederate
The Chevrolet Series BA Confederate (or Chevrolet Confederate) is an American vehicle manufactured by Chevrolet in 1932 to replace the 1931 Series AE Independence. Production slipped significantly from over 600,000 cars to 323,100 for the model ...
, an automobile manufactured in 1932
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Federacy
A federacy is a form of government where one or several substate units enjoy considerably more independence than the majority of the substate units. To some extent, such an arrangement can be considered to be similar to asymmetric federalism. ...
, where one or several states or regions enjoy considerably more independence than the majority
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Federation
A federation (also known as a federal state) is a political entity characterized by a union of partially self-governing provinces, states, or other regions under a central federal government (federalism). In a federation, the self-governin ...
, a union comprising a number of partially self-governing states or regions united by a central government
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Baro Bhuyans
The Baro-Bhuyans (or ''Baro-Bhuyan Raj''; also ''Baro-Bhuians'' and Baro-Bhuiyans) refers to the confederacies of soldier-landowners in Assam and Bengal in the late Middle Ages and the early modern period. The confederacies consisted of loose ...
, confederacies of soldier-landowners in Assam and Bengal in late middle age and early modern period
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