The Obotrites (, ), also commonly known as the Obodrites, Abotrites, or Abodrites, were a confederation of medieval West Slavic tribes within the territory of modern Mecklenburg and Holstein in northern Germany ( see Polabian Slavs ).

* Battle of Mediolanum: A Germanic confederation, the Alamanni ( 300, 000 warriors ), who crossed the Alps are defeated by Roman legions under Gallienus near Mediolanum ( modern Milan ).

The Wappinger People were a loose confederation of tribes living from the eastern banks of the Hudson River, from modern northern Dutchess County NY, south into Westchester County, and eastward into north-central Connecticut into the Connecticut River valley south to the Long Island Sound.

Already the Medieval Holy Roman Empire of which parts evolved into modern Germany had had no capital, considering itself rather as a confederation of varied territories of which some were German while others were not.

The Karakhanids were a confederation formed some time in the ninth century of Karluk, Yaghma, Chigil, and other tribes living in Semirechye, Western Tian Shan ( modern Kyrgyzstan ), and Western Xinjiang ( Kashgaria ).

A confederation in modern political terms is a permanent union of political units for common action in relation to other units.

Canada is an unusually decentralized, " collaborative " federal state and not a confederate association of sovereign states, ( the usual meaning of confederation in modern terms ).

* 358 BCE: Triple city coalesced into one entity ; became the center of Phoenician confederation and neutral meeting ground for the governors of the three main Phoenician cities / seaports: Aradus ( modern Ruad in Syria ), Sidon, and Tyre.

This inaugural confederation grew through a long series of accessions to modern Switzerland.

According to an older opinion the Vahika Sanghas included prominently the Vrikas ( possibly modern Virk Jatts ), Damanis, confederation of six states known as Trigarta-shashthas, Yaudheyas ( modern Joiya or Johiya Rajputs and some Kamboj ), Parsus, Kekayas, Usinaras, Sibis ( possibly modern Sibia Jatts?

In first time territory of Khurasan ( including area Gorgan ) owned tribe aparnak ( parthians ), moved here from Dakhistan / Dahistan ( a part of territory of modern Turkmenistan ) where they entered in confederation of Dahai tribes ,-the " barbars " and " enemies of Aryans " according to Avestan texts as thinks Christian Bartholomae.

Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, who represented both the Kagyupa and Nyingmapa lineages, and leader of the modern Eclectic School ( Ris-med ) of Tibetan Buddhism in the diaspora, inspired by the Greek philosophers of the polis, used the Gesar epic detailed tales about an idealized nomadic government formed by the Mukpo clan, which constructed a nomadic confederation of imperial reach, to develop a model of a Tibetan polity.

The vow's roots lie in the oath taken in the United Kingdom, the modern form of which was implemented in 1689 by King William II and III and Queen Mary II, and was used in Canada prior to confederation.

The nickname " targowiczanin ", describing the supporters of this confederation, became a negative political epithet in Poland, akin to " foolish traitor ", still used up to the modern day.

" the Fours ") is the second largest subgroup of the Mongol people in modern Mongolia and was one major tribe of the Four Oirat confederation in 15th-18th century.

In the writings of Al-Biruni, Ibn-Batuta, Ibn-Khaldun, Al-Khwarezmi, Masudi, Varahamihira and Juzjani's Hudud ul -' alam min al-mashriq ila al-maghrib, they are presented as a group of Turkic origin which formed one of the older members of the Hephthalite confederation, and included many nomads near Bactria ( in Turfan ) and east of modern Ghazni.

* confœderatio ( confederation ), a military organisation of the citizens for the attainment of common political aims.

Having developed from a loose confederation of national political parties in the 1970s, the ELDR is now a recognised European political party incorporated as a non-profit association under Belgian law.

Despite this legal status, the ELDR party has yet to achieve significant grassroots involvement and retains much of the character of a mere confederation of national political parties.

Fataḥ ( ) ( also known as Fateh, ) is a major Palestinian political party and the largest faction of the Palestine Liberation Organization ( PLO ), a multi-party confederation.

Some Christians favor political and administrative decentralization of the government, with separate Muslim and Christian sectors operating within the framework of a confederation.

Despite political complications that arose from time to time ( such as an ill-fated scheme by the British Colonial Office to enforce a confederation in Southern Africa in 1878, and tensions with the Afrikaner-dominated Government of Transvaal over trade and railroad construction ), economic and social progress in the Cape Colony continued at a steady pace until the outbreak of the Anglo-Boer Wars in 1899.

Syndicalism can be accurately divided into the purely economic focused camp, exemplified by the Italian USI ( Unione Sindacale Italiana, the largest Italian syndicalist union in 1920, taking part in Biennio rosso ) and the anarcho syndicalism of the CNT ( national confederation of labour ), taking both political and economic action, wishing to take control of both workplace and political life, while syndicalism has traditionally focused on the economic sector alone.

Apparently Canaan at this time existed as a distinct political entity ( probably a loose confederation of city-states ).

This problematic dualism dominated until 1798, i. e. until the end of the old confederation, the political structure of the Canton Zug.

In this Canadian context, confederation generally describes the political process that united the colonies in the 1860s and related events, and the subsequent incorporation of other colonies and territories.

The Barisan Nasional defines itself as " a confederation of political parties which subscribe to the objects of the Barisan Nasional ".

* Secession from federation or confederation ( political entities with substantial reserved powers which have agreed to join together ) versus secession from a unitary state ( a state governed as a single unit with few powers reserved to sub-units )

The war also showed that the confederation had grown into a political alliance so close that it no longer tolerated separatist tendencies of a single member.

On his second trip to Southern Africa in 1875, Froude was an official emissary charged with promoting confederation, a position which conflicted at times with his habit for lecturing on his personal political opinions.

With the various migrations and political upheavals following the collapse of the Gökturk confederation and the Mongol invasions " Turkestan " gradually ceased to be a useful geographic descriptor, and was not used.

Lord Carnarvon, still bent on imposing confederation on Southern Africa, now appointed his political ally Sir Bartle Frere as governor of Cape Colony and high commissioner of South Africa.

Lord Carnarvon had failed to appreciate the geo-political differences between Canada and Southern Africa, and how inappropriate a Canadian-style confederation was for the Southern African political landscape.

In spite of the disastrous failure of political confederation, the members of the Cape parliament set about establishing a South African Customs Union in 1888.

After the Battle of Caporetto, the political life in Austria-Hungary resumed and Gorizia became the focus of three competing political camps: the unified Slovene nationalist parties that demanded a semi-independent Yugoslav state under the House of Habsburg, the Friulian conservatives who demanded a separate and autonomous Eastern Friuli within an Austrian confederation, and the underground Italian irredentist movement working for the unification with Italy.

Under the terms of the Sykes-Picot Agreement, the British and French had agreed to an independent Arab state, or confederation of states, and consultations with the sharif of Mecca.

In " the work of European writers which treat iwi and hapū as parts of a hierarchical structure ", it has been used to mean " tribe ", or confederation of tribes, however " peoples " is considered a " better gloss " because " it avoids the structural connotations " of the tribal terms.

The Rutherford government had acquiesced to this state of affairs: because the terms of confederation had been drawn up by the Liberal government of Sir Wilfrid Laurier, it was natural for the provincial Liberal Party to cast itself as their defender.

In 894, Árpád and Kurszán negotiated together with the representatives of the Byzantine emperor, Leo VI the Wise the terms under which the confederation of the Magyar tribes was willing to assist the Byzantine Empire against Emperor Simeon I of Bulgaria.

Informally it can be considered more widely: from a post-colonial form of amical protection, or protectorate, to confederation of unequal members when the lesser partner ( s ) delegate to the major one ( often the former colonial power ) some authority normally exclusively retained by a self-governing state, often in such fields as defence and foreign relations, while often enjoying favorable economic terms such as market access.

Tecumseh acknowledged to Harrison that he had threatened to kill the chiefs who signed the treaty if they carried out its terms, and that his confederation was rapidly growing.

In 1865, Hathaway objected to the terms of Canadian confederation and resigned from his government position when the terms were accepted by the government of Samuel Leonard Tilley.

While not hostile to confederation, Pope did not agree with the terms set by the Quebec Conference.

The financial situation forced Haythorne's government to send a delegation to Ottawa in February 1873 and seek terms for admission to Canadian confederation which would see the completion of the railway and the Canadian government assume the island's debts.

Mathieson's government pressed the federal government to fulfill the terms on which Prince Edward Island joined Canadian confederation in 1873.

He protested the federal government's failure to fulfill the terms of confederation on which the island had joined the dominion in 1873.

However, historically the terms " Iran " and " Persia " have referred to a confederation of all groups native to the Iranian Plateau, and the speakers of Iranian languages, whether located in Iran or not ( e. g. Tajiks, Kurds, Pashtuns, etc .).

The negotiations, in which participated Benoît Frachon for the CGT, Marx Dormoy ( SFIO ) as under-secretary of state to the President of the Council, Jean-Baptiste Lebas ( SFIO, Minister of Labour ), had started on June 6 at 3 PM, but the pressure from the workers ' movement was such that the employers ' confederation quickly accepted the unions ' terms.

Earlier, Korošec and Nikola Pašić had agreed on the terms of the Geneva Declaration, in which the Kingdom of Serbia recognized the equal rights of the different components of such a state should it join with it in a confederation.