With Attila's death in 453, the Hunnic confederation he led fell apart.

The African National Congress ( ANC ), whose slate incorporated the labour confederation COSATU and the South African Communist Party, fell short of a two-thirds majority.

A confederation is a form of republic whereby the constituent states or regional governing bodies have ultimate sovereignty and there is no autonomous federal government apart from the working together of the regional bodies or states on issues affecting the whole.

This system began to fall apart as the Ottoman Empire which had been seen as a check on Russian power began to crumble, and as Germany, which had been a loose confederation of minor states, was united into a major power.

British Columbia joined confederation in 1871, followed by Prince Edward Island in 1873.

In 1885, after Barbados left the British Windward Islands, the capital of the colonial confederation was moved from Bridgetown to St. George on Grenada.

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.

The Saxons (,,, ) were a confederation of Germanic tribes on the North German plain, some of whom migrated to the British Isles during the Middle Ages and formed part of the merged group of Anglo-Saxons that would eventually carve out the first united Kingdom of England.

** British Columbia joins the confederation of Canada.

In 1859, Alexander Tilloch Galt, George-Étienne Cartier and John Ross travelled to Great Britain to present the British Parliament with a project for confederation of the British colonies.

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.

At the time of confederation, 1867, Montreal was the biggest city in the British North American colonies.

Carnarvon appointed Frere to the position on the understanding that he would work to enforce Carnarvon's confederation plan and, in return, Frere could then become the first British governor of a federated southern African dominion.

Overall, the idea of confederation under Britain was not popular in the Southern African states, which were still simmering from the last bout of British imperial expansion ( President Brand of the Orange Free State refused outright to even consider it ).

Molteno, furious, condemned Froude ’ s statements, accused Froude of imperial interference in the Cape Colony ’ s democracy, and told the British Colonial Office that he was perfectly happy to sacrifice his job to keep the Cape out of such a confederation.

The confederation slowly disintegrated as subject territories broke away and as protected regions defected to British rule.

However, the general public in South Africa saw him as a representative of the British government and local suspicion of his agenda ensured that his trip was not a success ; in fact he entirely failed to induce Southern Africans to adopt Lord Carnarvon's confederation system.

Frere was appointed on the understanding that he would work to enforce Carnarvon's confederation plan and, in return, he could then become the first British governor of a united southern African confederation.

While the war was being fought, Lord Carnarvon resigned his position in the British cabinet and his scheme for confederation was abandoned.

The British government keeps on talking about a confederation under the British flag, but that will never be brought about.

There is just one obstacle in the way of confederation, and that is the British flag.

There was considerable unrest in Cape Colony in the period from 1878 to 1885-sparked in part by the attempts of the British Colonial Office to impose a system of confederation on Southern Africa and to disarm all Africans in the Cape.

This campaign started as a side show to the Invasion of the Waikato, where British Imperial Troops, on behalf of the New Zealand Colonial Government, were fighting a confederation of Māori tribes known as the King Movement.

British Columbia joined confederation on July 20, 1871, and McCreight joined the interim transitional cabinet as Attorney General.

It also called for an Arab State or confederation under an Arab Chief, and the British government had arranged for the meetings leading up to the Faisal-Weizmann Agreement.

The Helvetii were a Celtic tribe or tribal confederation occupying most of the Swiss plateau at the time of their contact with the Roman Republic in the 1st century BC.

By the 17th century, Osei Kofi Tutu I ( c. 1695 – 1717 ), with help of Okomfo Anokye, unified what became the Ashante into a confederation with the Golden Stool as a symbol of their unity and spirit.

After their triumph in the Intercontinental Cup the same year, the club also became the first in football history — and remain the only one at present — to have won all possible confederation competitions and the club world title.

Most of the union republics quickly declared their independence, although many appeared willing to sign Gorbachev's vaguely delineated confederation treaty.

A loose confederation of anti-Bolshevik forces aligned against the Communist government, including land-owners, republicans, conservatives, middle-class citizens, reactionaries, pro-monarchists, liberals, army generals, non-Bolshevik socialists who still had grievances and democratic reformists, voluntarily united only in their opposition to Bolshevik rule.

After he was killed by members of the rival Tanukh tribal confederation, Zenobia became the head of the ' Amlaqis, leading them in their nomadic lifestyle to summer and winter pastures.

The republic was a confederation of seven provinces, which had their own governments and were very independent, and a number of so-called Generality Lands.

The confederation, aiming to curtail Russian hegemony over the Commonwealth, and seeing king Stanisław August Poniatowski as their tool, was actively opposed by the Russian forces stationed in Poland.

" As these groups would be unable to supply all their own needs, the congress anticipated that their delegates to the meetings of the confederation of communes would be able to negotiate special economic agreements with the other agricultural and industrial communes.

" As these groups would be unable to supply all their own needs, the congress anticipated that their delegates to the meetings of the confederation of communes would be able to negotiate special economic agreements with the other agricultural and industrial communes.

' Khan ' is also seen as a title in the Xianbei confederation for their chief between 283 and 289.

# Premiers of the Provinces, in the order their province joined confederation and by population at joining to break ties

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 mid-October, despite their traditional suspicions of one another, they and Demchugdongrub agreed to draw up confederation documents for the Inner Mongolian banners.

In 1623 the Oirat confederation killed Ubashi Khong Tayiji, and secured their independence.

This, combined with the effects of the Georgian-Ossetian conflict, led to the popularization of " Alania ", the name of the medieval Sarmatian confederation, to which the Ossetians traced their origin, and inclusion of this name into the official republican title of North Ossetia in 1994.

The Rouran and the Hephthalites had a falling out and problems within their confederation were encouraged by Chinese agents.

More changes followed in September 2007 when the university changed from a federal structure to a confederation of independent institutions, allowing those individual institutions which had gained the status of universities in their own right to use the title of university – these institutions are Aberystwyth University, Bangor University, Glyndŵr University ( formerly the North East Wales Institute of Higher Education ), Swansea Metropolitan University and Swansea University.

Those who had been against confederation regrouped loosely as " Liberals ", but did not become a coherent party until Andrew Blair, a supporter of Confederation, became Premier of New Brunswick and forged members of his parliamentary government and their supporters into the New Brunswick Liberal Association in 1883.

From c. 300 CE the whole current area of Kostroma with exception the area east of River Unzha was part of historical Finno-Ugric peoples ' lands, like the Merya people and their loose tribal confederation.

Before the Roman conquest their land and capital appear to have been part of the territory of the Atrebates, possibly as part of a confederation of tribes.

* 1649-64: the Beaver Wars: Encouraged by the English, and the need for more beaver for trade ( their own area being hunted out ), Haudenosee ( Iroquois ) make war on Hurons ( 1649 ), Tobaccos ( 1649 ), Neutrals ( 1650 – 51 ), Erie ( 1653 – 56 ), Ottawa ( 1660 ), Illinois and Miami ( 1680 – 84 ), and members of the Mahican confederation.