Confederacy

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Confederacy (or Confederation) may refer to:

• Confederation, an association of sovereign states or communities
• Confederate States of America, eleven southern states of the United States of America between 1861 and 1865. "Confederate" may also be used in reference to the CSA's military:
• Confederate States Army
• Confederate States Navy
• Confederate States Marine Corps
• Confederate Ireland
• Canadian Confederation
• Swiss Confederation
• Peru-Bolivian Confederation of 1836–1839
• Powhatan Confederacy
• Confederacy of Independent Systems, a fictional Separatist movement in the Star Wars universe
• Terran Confederacy, a fictional political entity in the StarCraft universe
• Terran Confederation, a fictional political entity in the Wing Commander universe
• Three Confederate States of Gojoseon of Korean pseudohistory
• Galactic Confederacy, a part of Scientology's belief system
• Iroquois Confederacy, a group of united Native-American nations in both Canada and the United States of America
• Federacy, where one or several substate units enjoys considerably more independence than the majority of the substate units

See also

• 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
• Confederacy of Independent Systems, an organization in the Star Wars movies.

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