confederacy

Athens emerged as the head of the Delian League, a confederacy of cities located along the Anatolian coast and on islands in the Aegean.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 10, 2026

In the confederacy, Georgia enacted a similar 15-day grace period, while Florida law provided an extra 20 days.

From Slate ● Mar. 13, 2026

Known as “Lament for Confederation,” it was a landmark moment in First Nations history, calling out the meaning of the confederacy and the impact of colonization on Indigenous peoples.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 5, 2024

Instead, Cortés wandered into a collection of city states, three of them joined in a powerful confederacy, the Triple Alliance.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 2, 2024

In this confederacy, the clan mothers also played a key role in governance.

From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

There was talk that states might further align themselves into various geographical confederacies and suffer the obvious inefficiencies and jealousies inherent in such arrangements.

From Salon ● May 10, 2020

They also coalesced in larger confederacies when necessary; Europeans would know them as Creeks or Choctaws.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018

The Chinese empire believed itself to be the sole legitimate political entity, while to its north and west tribal confederacies fought each other with glee.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 9, 2016

However, much of the land in the American British Empire remained under the control of powerful native confederacies, which made any claims of British mastery beyond the Atlantic coastal settlements hollow.

From Textbooks ● Dec. 30, 2014

Such was the maintenance of suits, or confederacies for the purpose of supporting each other's claims in litigation, which was the subject of frequent complaints in parliament, and gave rise to several prohibitory statutes.

From View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 by Henry Hallam