Confederacy

Confederacy or confederate may refer to:

States or communities

 * Confederate state or confederation, a union of sovereign groups or communities
 * Confederate States of America, a confederation of secessionist American states that existed between 1861 and 1865
 * Military forces of the Confederate States, the Army, Marine Corps, and Navy of the Confederacy
 * Confederate Ireland, a period of Irish self-government during the Eleven Years' War
 * Canadian Confederation, the 1867 union of three British provinces (United Canada, split into Ontario and Quebec; Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick) as "one dominion under the name of Canada." Today, there are 10 provinces and three territories, and Canada (since 1982) is no longer a dominion.
 * Confederation of the Rhine, a group of French client states that existed during the Napoleonic Wars
 * Catalan-Aragonese Confederation, a group of Spanish states that were governed by one king
 * Gaya confederacy, an ancient grouping of territorial polities in southern Korea
 * German Confederation, an association of German-speaking states prior to German Unification
 * Iroquois Confederacy, group of united Native American nations in present-day Canada and the United States
 * Maratha Confederacy, a group of Indian states in the 1700s
 * Muscogee Confederacy, Native American nation in Southern United States
 * North German Confederation, a federation in northern Germany from 1867 to 1870
 * Peru–Bolivian Confederation, a federation of several states in present day Peru and Bolivia that existed between 1836 and 1839
 * Powhatan Confederacy, a group of Native American tribes on the Atlantic coast governed by a single chief
 * Sikh Confederacy, a group of states confederated during the 18th century in the Punjab region
 * Swiss Confederation or Switzerland, a federal republic in Europe
 * Old Swiss Confederacy, a confederation that was the predecessor of the current Swiss state
 * Three Confederate States of Gojoseon, states thought to have existed in present day Korea during the Bronze Age
 * Northwestern Confederacy, a group of Native American tribes in the Great Lakes region that united after the American revolution

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 (Wing Commander), a political entity in the Wing Commander universe
 * Confederacy of Independent Systems, a secessionist political entity in the Star Wars universe

Other uses

 * Confederacy (British political group), a society within the British Conservative Party during the early twentieth century
 * Confederates (novel), a novel by Thomas Keneally
 * Confederate (TV series), a cancelled HBO television program