It soon became a powerful military confederation and by c. 340 BC it became one of the leading military powers in ancient Greece.

It was one of the more powerful among the Etruscan 12-city confederation.

The territory of the powerful confederation of the Hun tribes included about 400 AD the lands of southern Poland, where burial and treasure sites have been investigated.

Yemen has long been home to dozens of tribes, many of which have formed powerful tribal confederations.

For these ancient copper-colored and fecund places, one of the biggest pre-inca confederations was created, the powerful confederation of conchucos.

The Anazah is a powerful confederation of tribes in the north of the Arabian peninsula.

Sheik Ahmar is the head of the powerful confederation of Hashed tribes in northern Yemen.

During the pre-Inca period, people lived in clans, which formed great tribes, some allied with each other to form powerful confederations, as the Confederation of Quito.

Part of a powerful confederation of tribes, these Oghuz formed the ethnic basis of the modern Turkmen population.

Until his death, in 2007, Abdullah al-Ahmar was the head of Yemen's most powerful tribal confederation, the Hashids, whose members live primarily in the north.