Alliance

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An alliance is an agreement between two or more parties, made in order to advance common goals and to secure common interests.

Alliance may also refer to:

• Military alliance formed between states
• Business alliance formed between organisations
• Alliances in the Bible

Contents 1 Political parties 2 Places 3 Other uses 4 See also

Political parties

• Alliance (New Zealand political party), New Zealand
• Canadian Alliance, Canada
  • Alberta Alliance Party, Alberta, Canada
• Alliance, Iceland
• Alliance Party of Northern Ireland, Northern Ireland
• The former name of the Barisan Nasional (National Front), Malaysia
• The Alliance (Hong Kong), Hong Kong
• United People Alliance, Portugal
• SDP-Liberal Alliance, UK

Places

• In the United States of America:
  • Alliance, Nebraska
  • Alliance, Ohio
  • Alliance, North Carolina
• In Canada:
  • Alliance, Alberta
  • Alliance, Ontario
  • Belle-Alliance Electoral District, Quebec

Other uses

• Alliance Air, a low-cost carrier based in Delhi, India
• Alliance (Star Trek), a group in the Star Fleet Universe, the General War era
• A faction in the Warcraft Universe, the Alliance - comprised of the Humans, Night Elves, Dwarves, and Gnomes.
• A common name for (ostensibly) democratic, "good-guy" (often, but not always) star-nations in various science fiction universes:
  • Earth Alliance (Babylon 5), in Babylon 5
  • Rebel Alliance, in Star Wars
  • Anglo-Sino Alliance, in Firefly
• The Alliance, was the name of a professional wrestling faction which ostensibly consisted of World Championship Wrestling and Extreme Championship Wrestling
• The Alliance (The Office episode), an episode of the television series The Office

See also

• Confederacy (disambiguation)

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