Definition and meaning of confederacy

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Confederacy may refer to:

A 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. "Confederacy" may also reference the military armed forces of the CSA, such as:
  • Confederate States Army
  • Confederate States Marine Corps
  • Confederate States Navy
• Confederate Ireland
• Canadian Confederation
• Confederation of the Rhine
• Gaya Confederacy, an ancient grouping of territorial polities in southern Korea
• German Confederation
• Iroquois Confederacy, group of united Native American nations in both Canada and the United States of America
• Maratha Confederacy
• North German Confederation
• Peru-Bolivian Confederation of 1836–1839
• Powhatan Confederacy
• Sikh Confederacy
• Swiss Confederation
  • Old Swiss Confederacy
• Three Confederate States of Gojoseon of the Korean Bronze Age
• Western Confederacy

  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, a political entity in the Wing Commander universe
• Confederation of Planet Omega, from the animated series Once Upon a Time... Space
• The Confederacy of Independent Systems, a secessionist political entity in the Star Wars universe

  See also

• A Confederacy of Dunces, a novel written by John Kennedy Toole, published in 1980
• Confederates (novel), a novel by Thomas Keneally
• Confederate Motor Company, an American manufacturer of motorcycles
• 1932 Chevrolet Confederate Series BA, an automobile
• 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

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