Durotriges were more a tribal confederation than a tribe.

To the east was the Ba tribal confederation.

Purus: one of the major tribal confederations in the Rigveda.

"It was a decision looking for an excuse," said Clayton Matt, head of the tribal confederation's natural resources department.

As is the case with many other large tribal confederations in the region, the name Otaibah only appeared within the last few centuries.

Soon after, from the 630s to 660s, the territory was taken by Samo's tribal confederation.

The great tribal confederations did not so much break up the western empire as occupy an area which had already lost its unifying institutional force.

Tecumseh, the leader of the tribal confederation, was killed, and his Indian coalition disintegrated.

This was also the name given to an area, Indian, tribal confederation.

"Gyula" meant the second highest title in Hungarian tribal confederation.