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Confederate

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

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