The Articles of Confederation, formally the Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union, was an agreement among the 13 founding states that established the United States of America as a confederation of sovereign states and served as its first constitution.

The Articles of Confederation established the United States as a confederation of sovereign states with a weak central government.

The Qarluqs, a confederation of Turkic tribes, established a state in what is now eastern Kazakhstan in 766.

Russia did not declare its independence, and Yeltsin continued to hope that some form of confederation could be established.

The Abron kingdom of Jaman was established in the seventeenth century by an Akan group, the Abron, who had fled the developing Asante confederation in what is present-day Ghana.

The newly established Turkic Council, founded on November 3, 2009 by the Nakhchivan Agreement Mongolian confederation, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Turkey, aims to integrate these organizations into a tighter geopolitical framework.

The JI was established as a loose confederation of several Islamic groups.

While the word " confederation " was officially used when the present Canadian federal system was established in 1867, the term is recognised to be a misnomer since Canadian provinces are not sovereign and do not claim to be.

In 1918, Yugoslavia was established as a confederation of South Slavic nations.

Let them remove that, and in less than a year the confederation would be established under the Free Afrikander flag.

In the 9th century BCE, the Phoenicians established a trading station in Tripoli and later, under Persian rule, the city became the center of a confederation of the Phoenician city states of Sidon, Tyre, and Arados Island.

Unlike in the United Kingdom, where the term ( Fidei defensor, in Latin ) signifies the sovereign's position as Supreme Governor of the Church of England and a member and defender of the security of the Church of Scotland, there have been no established churches in Canada since before its confederation in 1867.

In 1897, when the Federated Malay States ( FMS ) was established, Sungai Ujong and Jelebu were reunited to the confederation of small states and the whole, under the old name of the Negeri Sembilan, was placed under a single Resident and became a member of the FMS.

It was established in 1990 as a non-profit ( IRS 501 ( c )( 3 )) confederation of independent college councils representing all graduate and professional students at the University of Minnesota to the Board of Regents, the President of the University, the University Senate, the University at large and wider community.

This organization was a loose confederation of the Connecticut, Massachusetts Bay, New Haven, and Plymouth Colonies, principally established to coordinate defense against common threats.

Tecumseh eventually emerged as the leader of the confederation, but it was built upon a foundation established by the religious appeal of his younger brother.

Bolívar decided to rejoin the patriot cause and made his way to Cartagena de Indias, which had established itself as an independent republic on November 11, 1811 ( in reaction as much to events in Spain as to attempts by the junta in Bogotá to control it ) and joined a few days later in a confederation with four other provinces, the United Provinces of New Granada.

He was one of the original founders in 1935 of the Committee for Industrial Organizing, an effort led by John L. Lewis, and became the Vice-President of the CIO when it established itself as a separate union confederation in 1937.

In alliance with Byzantium against the Pannonian Avars, the Turks continued to support Dulo ( Duolu ) leaders in Patria Onoguria, including Khan Kubrat, leader of the Unogundur Bulgars ( Onoq-Utigurs ) who under their authority defeated the Avars and established the new Onoq-Utigur confederation of Old Great Bulgaria ( Bul ~ Bol meaning " Many " and Gar ~ Gurs ~ Gur meaning " Tribe ") around Azov.

The Targowica Confederation (,, ) was a confederation established by Polish and Lithuanian magnates on 27 April 1792, in Saint Petersburg, with the backing of the Russian Empress Catherine II.

In the past, the Tikar faced invasions from peoples in the surrounding hills, and between 1700 and 1800, they joined a confederation established by the Mbum for defense purposes.

Officially, the CAVB was the last confederation to be created: it was established in 1972, when the FIVB turned its five Volleyball Zone Commissions into continental confederations.

She decided that a good pretext for justifying the war would be to help the Polish nation in re-establishing Golden Liberty and giving help to the confederation which would be established by magnates Franciszek Ksawery Branicki, Szymon Kossakowski, Seweryn Rzewuski, Stanisław Szczęsny Potocki and others.

The Karluk rose in rebellion against the Göktürk, then the dominant tribal confederation in the region, in about 745, and established a new tribal confederation with the Uygur and Basmyl tribes.

As part of this defense, Canada and the US established the North American Air Defense Command ( now called North American Aerospace Defense Command NORAD ).

The new sound hailed from a club that he established called the Afro-Shrine.

The institution, also called BankItalia, was established in 1893 from the combining of three major banks in Italy after the Banca Romana scandal.

The first known European gambling house, not called a casino although meeting the modern definition, was the Ridotto, established in Venice, Italy in 1638 to provide controlled gambling during the carnival season.

The church is headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah, and has established congregations ( called wards or branches ) and built temples worldwide.

After the point is established, a seven is typically called by simply " 7 out " or " 7 out 7 ".

Connecticut's first European settlers were Dutch and established a small, short-lived settlement in present-day Hartford at the confluence of the Park and Connecticut rivers, called Huys de Goede Hoop.

Christians believe that God has established a new covenant with people through Jesus, as recorded in the Gospels, Acts of the Apostles, Epistles, and other books collectively called the New Testament ( the word testament attributed to Tertullian is commonly interchanged with the word covenant ).

Although no official membership figures are published, the Columbia Encyclopedia gives an estimated figure of 50, 000 Christadelphians, who are spread across approximately 120 countries ; there are established churches ( or ecclesias, as they are often called ) in many of those countries, along with isolated members.

The octant where all three coordinates are positive is sometimes called the first octant ; however, there is no established nomenclature for the other octants.

In Dune, it is established that De Vries had pioneered a type of toxin called " residual poison " which remains in the body for years and requires an antidote to be administered regularly.

By luck, these men found the Valley of Copiapó, where a Spaniard called Gonzalo Calvo Barrientos, a Spaniard whom Pizarro had expelled from Peru for stealing objects the Inca had offered for his ransom, had already established a friendship with the local natives.

In its place he established an effectively autocratic structure, a shift later epitomized in the institution's name: it would be called a consistorium (" consistory "), not a council.

In 1905, it established a large house of studies at Washington, D. C., called the Dominican House of Studies.

The town is first mentioned in 742 under the name of " Erphesfurt ": in that year, Saint Boniface writes Pope Zachary to tell him that he had established three dioceses in Thuringia, one of which " in a place called Erphesfurt, which for a long time has been inhabited by pagan natives.

In 1967, the DoD established a criterion-based approach, using a set of 35 criteria, called the Cost / Schedule Control Systems Criteria ( C / SCSC ).

His works established and popularised inductive methodologies for scientific inquiry, often called the Baconian method, or simply the scientific method.

In grateful recognition of that fact, on the fiftieth anniversary ( May 16, 1866 ) of the date of Windischmann's preface to that work, a fund called Die Bopp-Stiftung, for the promotion of the study of Sanskrit and comparative grammar, was established at Berlin, to which liberal contributions were made by his numerous pupils and admirers in all parts of the globe.

Shortly after taking power in 1933 ( so called Machtergreifung ), May Day ( May 1 ) was established as a national holiday in the German Empire.

In 1878 the London Livery companies established the City and Guilds of London Institute the forerunner of the engineering school ( still called City and Guilds college ) at Imperial College London.

Kildall and his wife Dorothy established a company, originally called " Intergalactic Digital Research " ( later renamed as Digital Research, Inc ), to market CP / M through advertisements in hobbyist magazines.

A people called the Akkadians invaded the valley under Sargon I and established their supremacy over the Sumerians, and extended their control into Syria as far as the coast.

Christopher Columbus established a small settlement called La Navidad, near the modern town of Cap Haitien, built from the timbers of his wrecked ship Santa María, during his first voyage in December 1492.

A second settlement was established on the north coast in 1504 called Puerto Real near modern Fort Liberte-which in 1578 was relocated to a nearby site and renamed Bayaha.