Confederacy

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Confederacy (or Confederation) may refer to:

1. A Confederation, an association of sovereign states or communities. Examples include:

• Confederate States of America, thirteen southern states of the United States of America between 1861 and 1865. "Confederate" may also be used in reference to the CSA's military, such as:
  • Confederate States Army
  • Confederate States Navy
  • Confederate States Marine Corps
• Confederate Ireland
• Canadian Confederation
• German Confederacy
  • German Confederate Navy
• Iroquois Confederacy, a group of united Native American nations in both Canada and the United States of America
• North German Confederation
  • Northern German Federal Navy
• Peru-Bolivian Confederation of 1836–1839
• Powhatan Confederacy
• Confederation of the Rhine
• Sikh Confederacy
• Swiss Confederation especially the Old Swiss Confederacy
• Three Confederate States of Gojoseon of the Korean Bronze Age

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

2. A group of individuals assembled for some nefarious purpose. See confederate.

[edit] See also

• Federacy, where one or several states or regions enjoy considerably more independence than the majority
• 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

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