List of confederations
A confederation is a political union of sovereign states united for purposes of common action. Confederations include:
Confederations of states
Includes confederations of confederations:| Name | Period | Type | Notes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Arzawa | 1700–1300 BC | Confederation of States | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Philistia | 1450–604 BC | Confederation of States | A confederation of city states in the Gaza Strip. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Assuwa | 1400-14th century BC | Confederation of States | Confederation of 22 states in Anatolia formed to fight the Hittite Empire. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Xu (state) | ? - 512 BC | Confederation of States | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sea Peoples | 1200 BC | Hypothesised seafaring confederation that initiated the Late Bronze Age collapse in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Near East. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Three Crowned Kings | 600 BC–300 AD | Confederation of States | Three Tamil dynasties which ruled in a triumvirate in Tamilakam, South Asia. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Etruscan dodecapolis | 6th Cent. BC | Confederation of cities | one of many Etruscan Leagues that was a confederation of twelve towns | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Jin (Korean state) | 4th–2nd cent. BC | Confederation of States | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ba (state) | ? - 326 BC | Confederation of Cheifdoms | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Mahan confederacy | 194 BC–?th cent. AD | Confederation of States | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gaya Confederacy | 42–532 AD | Confederation of States | A Korean confederacy of territorial polities in the Nakdong River basin of southern Korea, growing out of the Byeonhan confederacy of the Samhan period. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Xianbei confederacy | 93–234 AD | Confederation of tribal confederations | Nomadic empire in Eastern Asia. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Quda'a | 4th cent.-12th cent. AD | Confederations or tribes and tribal confederations | Confederation of Arab tribes. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Toltec Empire | 496–1122 AD | Confederation of States | Existed as a confederation between the Toltecs and the Chichimeca, simultaneously as an empire exerting control over places like Cholula. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| First Turkic Khaganate | 552–603 AD | Confederation of tribal confederations | Göktürk confederation in Eurasia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Oqun/Western Turkic Khaganate | 603-657/742 AD | Confederation of tribal confederations | Split from the First Turkic Khaganate. Bore the Nushibi confederation. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 Papal proto-national flag.svgGreek city state leaguesThe Ancient Greeks formed many Leagues which often acted as confederations and alliances usually to combat a common enemy, These polities would often be known as symmachia and koinon.
Supranational 'confederations'A supranational union is a supranational polity which lies somewhere between a confederation that is an association of sovereign states and a federation that is a single sovereign state.
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