Results for "confederation"
42 peoples found.
- Confederacy Glossary
Israelitesבני ישראל
🇮🇱 Israel and 11 moreAncient Semitic-speaking people of Canaan, known for their tribal confederation
Historical, Canaanite (Northwest Semitic)
Twelve Tribes of Israelשִׁבְטֵי־יִשְׂרָאֵל (Šiḇṭê Yiśrāʾēl)
🇮🇱 Israel and 5 moreAncient tribal confederation of the biblical Israelites in Canaan
Historical, Semitic
Baggaraعرب البقارة
🇸🇩 Sudan and 6 moreNomadic cattle herders of the Sahel between Lake Chad and the Nile
About 6 million, Afro-Asiatic, Semitic
Durrani
🇦🇫 Afghanistan and 3 moreA major Pashtun tribal confederation of southern Afghanistan and Pakistan
About 8.2 million, Indo-Iranian
Banu Sulaym
🇱🇾 Libya and 5 moreArab tribal confederation with roots in the Hejaz, now prominent in Cyrenaica, Libya
Semitic
Qays
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia and 7 moreA major Arab tribal confederation of northern Arabia and the early Islamic world
Historical, Semitic
Al Qasimi
🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates and 3 moreArab tribe and dynasty ruling Sharjah and Ras Al Khaimah in the UAE
Kutama
🇩🇿 Algeria and 2 moreA Berber tribe from northern Algeria, key to the rise of the Fatimid Caliphate
Historical
Bariq
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia and 2 moreA large tribe from Bareq in southwest Saudi Arabia, descended from Al-Azd.
About 100,000, Semitic
Banu Ghatafan
🇸🇦 Saudi ArabiaA confederation of Bedouin tribes from northeast of Medina in pre-Islamic Arabia
Historical, Afro-Asiatic
UmatillaImatalamłáma
🇺🇸 United StatesSahaptin-speaking people of the Columbia Plateau in the Pacific Northwest
Sahaptin (Penutian family)
Bani Yas
🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates and 1 moreA major tribal confederation of Najdi origin in the United Arab Emirates and Qatar
About 6,000
Bani Shaiba
🇸🇦 Saudi ArabiaCustodians of the Kaaba keys in Mecca for centuries
Afro-Asiatic
Banu Bakr
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia and 4 moreA historic Arab tribal confederation from central and northern Arabia
Semitic
Hawazin
🇸🇦 Saudi ArabiaA major Arab tribal confederation of western Najd and the Hejaz
Historical, Semitic
PeoriaPeewaalia
🇺🇸 United StatesA Native American people of the Illinois Confederation, now in Oklahoma
About 4,000, Algonquian
Quda'a
🇸🇾 Syria and 4 moreA confederation of Arab tribes influential in Syria and Arabia from the 4th to 12th centuries
Historical, Semitic
BarzaniEşîra Barzanî
🇮🇶 Iraq and 2 moreA Kurdish tribal confederation from Barzan in northern Iraq
Tayy
🇸🇾 Syria and 5 moreAncient Arab tribal confederation of Jabal Shammar and the Syrian Desert
Doukkala
🇲🇦 MoroccoBerber-Arab tribal confederation of Morocco's Atlantic plains
About 360,000, Afro-Asiatic
Khamseh
🇮🇷 IranA confederation of five partly nomadic tribes in southwestern Iran
Jebala
🇲🇦 MoroccoMountain tribal confederation of northwest Morocco
About 1.3 million, Maghrebi Arabic (Pre-Hilalian Arabic)
Shabankara
🇮🇷 IranA confederation of herding and warrior tribes in medieval Fars, Iran
Historical
Yaquina
🇺🇸 United StatesNative people of the Yaquina River and Bay in Oregon
Historical, Yakonan
Abda
🇲🇦 MoroccoArab tribal confederation of western Morocco, descended from Banu Ma'qil
Semitic
Oulad Zyan
🇲🇦 MoroccoArab tribe of the Chaouia confederation near Casablanca, Morocco
Ngāti Maniapoto
🇳🇿 New ZealandA large iwi of the Waikato-Waitomo region, part of the Tainui confederation
About 46,000, Austronesian