Confederacy
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Confederacy (or Confederation) may refer to:
Confederation, an association of sovereign states or communities. Examples include:
- Confederate States of America, eleven southern states of the United States of America between 1861 and 1865. "Confederate" may also refer to their nationality, and be used in reference to the CSA's military, such as:
- Confederate Ireland
- Canadian Confederation
- Iroquois Confederacy, a group of united Native American nations in both Canada and the United States of America
- Peru-Bolivian Confederation of 1836–1839
- Powhatan Confederacy
- Swiss Confederation
- Three Confederate States of Gojoseon of the Korean Bronze age
[edit] Fictional Confederacies
- The Confederacy of Independent Systems, a secessionist political entity in the Star Wars universe
- Galactic Confederacy, part of the Scientology mythos
- Terran Confederacy, a political entity in the StarCraft universe
- Terran Confederation, a political entity in the Wing Commander universe
[edit] See also
- Federacy, in which some substate units enjoy more independence than the majority of the substate units
- A Confederacy of Dunces, a novel written by John Kennedy Toole, published in 1980
- Federation, a union comprising a number of partially self-governing states or regions united by a central government
- Confederate Motor Company, an American manufacturer of motorcycles