Confederacy (or Confederation) may refer to:

Confederation, an association of sovereign states or communities. A confederation is a group of empowered states or communities usually created by treaty but often later adopting a common constitution Examples include:

• Confederate States of America, eleven southern states of the United States of America between 1861 and 1865. The Confederate States of America (also called the Confederacy, the Confederate States, and CSA) formed as the government set up from 1861 "Confederate" may also refer to their nationality, and 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
• Iroquois Confederacy, a group of united Native American nations in both Canada and the United States of America
• Peru-Bolivian Confederation of 1836–1839
• Powhatan Confederacy
• Swiss Confederation
• 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

See also

• Federacy, in which some substate units enjoy more independence than the majority of the substate units
• 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

The War Department was established by the Confederate Congress in an act on February 21, 1861. The Confederate States Navy ( CSN) was the naval branch of the Confederate States Armed forces established by an act of the Confederate Congress The Confederate States Marine Corps ( CSMC) a branch of the Confederate Navy, was established by the Confederate Ireland refers to the period of Irish self-government between the Rebellion of 1641 and the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland in 1649 Canadian Confederation was the process by which the federal Dominion of Canada was formed beginning 1 July 1867 from the The Iroquois Confederacy (also known as the "League of Peace and Power" the "Five Nations" the "Six Nations" or the "People of the Longhouse The Peru-Bolivian Confederation (or Confederacy was a short-lived confederated state that existed in South America between the years 1836 and 1839 The Powhatan (also spelled Powatan and Powhaten) or Powhatan Renape (literally the "Powhatan Human Beings" is the name of a Switzerland (English pronunciation; Schweiz Swiss German: Schwyz or Schwiiz Suisse Svizzera Svizra officially the Swiss Confederation The Three Gojoseon kingdoms are states noted in history texts such as Joseon Sangosa (1924-25 and has been researched by several historians,,,, although not widely accepted The Clone Wars are a series of fictional intragalactic battles in George Lucas 's Science fiction saga Star Wars. In Scientology doctrine The Galactic Confederacy refers to an extraterrestrial political unit involving our Solar system. Blizzard Entertainment's 1998 bestselling Real-time strategy game series StarCraft revolves around interstellar affairs in a distant sector of the galaxy Government and Politics The Terran Confederation is a representative Democracy organized on the federal system (making its name something of a A federacy is a Form of government where one or several substate units enjoy considerably more independence than the majority of the substate units A Confederacy of Dunces is a Novel written by John Kennedy Toole, published in 1980, 11 years after the author's Suicide. A federation ( Latin: foedus, covenant is a union comprising a number of partially self-governing states or regions united by a central ("federal" Confederate Motor Company Inc is an American manufacturer of Motorcycles based in Birmingham Alabama, and distributed by Birmingham Speed of

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