Its inhabitants are a loosely-connected federation of tribes belonging to the mountains.
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This union was quickly rejected by the gothic federation of tribes.
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Their political and social structure was based on Cacicazgos, a federation of tribes led by a cacique, with different social classes.
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A scion of the powerful Shammar federation of tribes, which straddles the border with Syria, Mr Yawar could help stop the flow of jihadi zealots into the country.
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Spanish chronicles describe the tribes as being part of a federation of tribes led by Caciques, with the village of Eupari as the largest and central to the other villages.
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Wiser counsel suggests that Iraq should be a federation of strictly administrative regions, not of tribes.
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This tribal federation was made up of mainly small tribes who inhabited the Pennines and cooperated on defence and external affairs.
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A group of anti-government tribes, most prominently the Hashid tribal federation, declared the formation of the Alliance of Yemeni Tribes on 30 July.
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At the time of the European arrival, the hegemonic Iroquois federation was regularly at war with Algonquian neighbours and forced other tribes out of Iroquois-occupied territories.