Confederacy or confederate may refer to:
States or communities
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Confederate state or confederation, a union of sovereign groups or communities
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Confederate States of America, a confederation of secessionist American states that existed between 1861 and 1865
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Military forces of the Confederate States, the Army, Marine Corps, and Navy of the Confederacy
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Confederate Ireland, a period of Irish self-government during the Eleven Years' War
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Canadian Confederation, the 1867 unification of the three parts of Canada into the Dominion of Canada
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Confederation of the Rhine, 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, an ancient grouping of territorial polities in southern Korea
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German Confederation, 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, a group of Indian states in the 1700s
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North German Confederation, a federation in northern Germany from 1867 to 1870
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Peru–Bolivian Confederation, a federation of several states in present day Peru and Bolivia that existed between 1836 and 1839
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Powhatan Confederacy, a group of Native American tribes on the Atlantic coast governed by a single chief
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Sikh Confederacy, a group of states confederated during the 18th century in the Punjab region
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Swiss Confederation 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, states thought to have existed in present day Korea during the Bronze Age
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Northwestern Confederacy, 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, a political entity in the ''Star Trek'' universe
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Capellan Confederation
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, a political entity in the ''Battletech'' universe
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Galactic Confederacy, part of the Scientology mythos
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Terran Confederacy, 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, a secessionist political entity in the ''Star Wars'' universe
Other uses
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Confederacy (British political group), 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
See also
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Confederation (disambiguation)
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A Confederacy of Dunces'', a novel written by John Kennedy Toole, published in 1980
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Condica confederata'' or the confederate, a moth in the family Noctuidae
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Confederate Motors, an American manufacturer of motorcycles
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Battle of the Confederates
The Battle of the Trench ( ar, غزوة الخندق, Ghazwat al-Khandaq), also known as the Battle of Khandaq ( ar, معركة الخندق, Ma’rakah al-Khandaq) and the Battle of the Confederates ( ar, غزوة الاحزاب, Ghazwat al- ...
, a battle in early Muslim history
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Chevrolet Series BA Confederate, an automobile manufactured in 1932
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Federacy, where one or several states or regions enjoy considerably more independence than the majority
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Federation, a union comprising a number of partially self-governing states or regions united by a central government
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Baro Bhuyans, confederacies of soldier-landowners in Assam and Bengal in late middle age and early modern period
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