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Confederacy or confederate may refer to:
States or communities
[edit]- 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 union of three British provinces (United Canada, split into Ontario and Quebec; Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick) as "one dominion under the name of Canada." Today, there are 10 provinces and three territories, and Canada (since 1982) is no longer a dominion.
- 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
- Muscogee Confederacy, Native American nation in Southern United States
- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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