# confederation

> union of sovereign states linked by treaties, whose common government does not directly exercise its sovereignty over their territory

**Wikidata**: [Q170156](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q170156)  
**Wikipedia**: [English](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confederation)  
**Source**: https://4ort.xyz/entity/confederation


## References

1. Freebase Data Dumps. 2013
2. Integrated Authority File
3. YSO-Wikidata mapping project
4. Quora
5. ASC Leiden Thesaurus dataset of 5 June 2018
6. KBpedia