Sentence examples for formed a confederation from inspiring English sources

This distinction was emphasized during the American Civil War when the seceding states formed a confederation (Confederate States of America) in opposition to the Federal Union.

In the 1980's Gambia and Senegal briefly formed a confederation, called Senegambia.

A land-workers union, the Federation of Agricultural Labourers (Federterra), was formed in 1901, and the various Socialist-led unions formed a confederation of labour in 1906.

Some Minangkabau migrated to Malaya (now Peninsular Malaysia) in the late 19th century and formed a confederation of small states that came to be known as Negri Sembilan (Nine States).

In 1958 Egypt and Syria merged to form the United Arab Republic, while Egypt and Yemen formed a confederation called the United Arab States.

The dissidents, supported by the Russians, formed a confederation, the Radom Confederation.

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Governors of the provinces controlled by Ratsiraka loyalists have been talking with increasing ardor of breaking away and forming a confederation that would leave Antananarivo, which is landlocked, to be a nation on its own.

In January 1968, following the announcement by the British government that its forces would be withdrawn from the Persian Gulf by late 1971, Trucial Oman and the sheikhdoms of Qatar and Bahrain initiated plans to form a confederation.

That day, Owen requested that the plan allow Krajina to form a confederation with either Serbia or FR Yugoslavia.

Part of the Lithuanian army opposed the treaty however, forming a confederation led by the magnate and Lithuanian hetman Paweł Jan Sapieha at Wierzbołów.