However, by 50 BC, Middle Woodland people, particularly the "Hopewell" of Ohio, realized some sort of trans-regional political-religious integration, perhaps consisting of one or more political-religious confederations, based in great ritualized gatherings of people in embanked monumental complexes keyed, in turn, to astronomical phenomena.
The Bridal Association of America, a year-old confederation of 250 wedding-related businesses that is based in Bakersfield, Calif., said information from its Web site indicated that three times as many brides had registered for Sept. 18 as for Sept. 11.
Velappan, based in Malaysia, was the Asian Football Confederation's general secretary from 1978 to 2007.
By about 1900 the various Mafia "families" and groups of families based in the villages of western Sicily had joined together in a loose confederation, and they controlled most of the economic activities in their respective localities.
Saeed Fahia, executive director of the Confederation of Somali Community in Minnesota, said there were 25,000 to 30,000 Somalis in Minnesota, about 15,000 of whom live in Minneapolis, where the confederation is based.
A loose confederation between Israel and Palestine, based on shared economic interests, with Jordan joining in, is a possibility.
Landrigan and Baker coauthored a perspectives article in early 2015 in which they argued for a "coordinated national confederation of regional, academically based, prospective birth-cohort studies" that could pursue the NCS's initial research agenda.
The junior partner in Mr Mas's CiU coalition, the Catalan Democratic Union, wants a solution based on a confederation.
For decades, the Senecas have been one of several Indian nations, all members of the Iroquois confederation, demanding the return of hundreds of thousands of acres of land in New York based on treaties dating to the Revolutionary War.
