List of confederations

This is a list of confederations.

Historic

Name	Period	Notes
Gaya Confederacy	42-532	A Korean confederacy of territorial polities in the Nakdong River basin of southern Korea, growing out of the Byeonhan confederacy of the Samhan period..
Toltec Empire	496-1122	Existed as a confederation between the Toltecs and the Chichimeca, simultaneously as an empire exerting control over places like Cholula.
League of Mayapan	987-1461	Pre-Hispanic state in Yucatan.
Confederation of Madya-as	13th century-1569	A pre-Hispanic state that was located in the Philippines.
Old Swiss Confederacy	1291 – 1798
Iroquois Confederacy	since 1451	Five, later six, nations in the southern Great Lakes area. Initial members were the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, and Seneca nations. The Tuscarora tribe joined in or around 1722.
Wabanaki Confederacy	1606–1862	A group of Native American nations in Canada and the United States.
New England Confederation	1643–1684	British colonies of Massachusetts, Plymouth, Connecticut, and New Haven.
Aro Confederacy	1690–1902	One of the two largest precolonial and colonial empires of the Igbo (Ibo) people of West Africa. The other being the Kingdom of Nri.
United States of America	1781–1789	In its first steps, the United States were a confederation of thirteen states (Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Georgia, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maryland, South Carolina, New Hampshire, Virginia, New York, North Carolina, and Rhode Island and Providence Plantations) organized under the Articles of Confederation. Superseded by the new government under the U.S. Constitution.
United Provinces of New Granada	1811–1816
Confederation of the Rhine	1806–1813	Client state of the First French Empire. Dissolved after the Battle of Leipzig in the War of the Sixth Coalition.
Sweden-Norway	1814–1905	Personal union between Sweden and Norway. Dissolved after the 1905 Norwegian plebiscite.
German Confederation	1815–1866	Created as loose confederation of German states by the Congress of Vienna to replace the Holy Roman Empire. Weakened by the Austro-Prussian rivalry and the German Revolutions of 1848 before its final dissolution after Prussia's victory in the Austro-Prussian War.
Argentine Confederation	1831–1861	First political organization of Argentina. Highly decentralized and without a head of state.
Peru-Bolivian Confederation	1836–1839
Confederate States of America	1861–1865	Confederation that was established by several southern slave states that seceded from the Union. It comprised 11 states: South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, North Carolina, Virginia, and Tennessee. Kentucky and Missouri were both claimed by the Confederacy but never officially declared secession. The Confederation was never officially recognized as a nation, although the United Kingdom and France recognized it as a belligerent power. Was reabsorbed by the United States after the American Civil War.
North German Confederation	1867–1871	Military alliance of 22 states of Germany with the Kingdom of Prussia formed by the Augustbündnis. Superseded by the German Empire after the Franco-Prussian War in 1871.
Austria-Hungary	1867–1918	Personal union between the Kingdoms and Lands Represented in the Imperial Council and the Lands of the Crown of Saint Stephen. Dissolved by the Treaties of Trianon and Saint-Germain-en-Laye after World War I.
Carlist States	1872–1876	Established by the carlists in Basque provinces and Navarre during the war.
Soviet Union	1922–1936	Originally it was a confederation between four soviet socialist republics (Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic and Transcaucasian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic). As a confederation of member states, Soviet constitutions formally defined each member republic as a sovereign state, whose membership was voluntary, and could secede at any time. Soviet constitutions of 1936-onward defined the state as a federation. Dissolved in 1991.
Arab Federation	1958	Ephimeral union of Jordan and Iraq. Dissolved after the overthrow of King Faisal II of Iraq in the July 14 Revolution.
United Arab Republic	1958–1961	Union between Syria and Egypt. Dissolved after Syria's withdrawal following the 1961 Syrian coup d'état.
United Arab States	1958–1961	Confederation between the United Arab Republic and North Yemen. Dissolved due to the breakup of the United Arab Republic.
Union of African States	1958–1961	An attempt to merge Ghana, Guinea and Mali through the views of panafricanism. Dissolved due to rising tensions between the countries after the 1963 Togolese coup d'état.
Federation of Arab Republics	1972–1977	An attempt to merge Libya, Egypt and Syria. Dissolved despite public approval in each of the countries due to disagreements among the governments on the terms of the merger.
Ethiopian Empire	1952–1962	Federation of Ethiopia and Eritrea, an attempt to merge Eritrea and Ethiopia. Dissolved after Emperor Haile Selassie I formally annexed Eritrea to Ethiopia.
Arab Islamic Republic	1974	Ephimeral proposed union of Libya and Tunisia.
Senegambia Confederation	1982–1989	Confederation that included the present-day countries of Senegal and Gambia.
Serbia and Montenegro	2003–2006	Replacing the former Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Dissolved after the 2006 Montenegrin independence referendum.

Current

Name	Period	Notes
Commonwealth of Independent States	1991-Present	A regional organization of 9 sovereign states in Eurasia created as a successor to the Soviet Union. Contains a free-trade area and institutions for military cooperation.
Iroquois Confederacy	1600–Present	A group of Native American nations in Canada and the United States.
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)	1960-present	Confederation with purpose to coordinate oil policy and production to stabilize markets and oil prices.
Wabanaki Confederacy	1993–Present	Confederacy that was originally disestablished in 1862, but was re-established in 1993.
Union State	1996–Present	De facto confederation comprising Russia and Belarus.
Eurasian Economic Union	2015–Present	An economic union of 5 sovereign states: Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Russia. Contains a common internal market, a planned monetary union, and common policy.
European Union	1993-present	A political and economic union of 27 member-states in Europe with a common citizenship, a common internal market, common policy, common currency, and border control-free travel.