Alliance (disambiguation)

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An alliance is usually an agreement between two or more parties, made in order to advance common goals and to secure common interests. It can also mean that there is an affinity or similarity.

Alliance, Alliances or The Alliance may also refer to:

Places

In politics

• Electoral alliance, an association of political parties or individuals that exists solely to stand in elections.
• Alliance (Chile), a coalition of right-wing parties
• Alliance Party (Fiji), the ruling party in Fiji from 1966 to 1987, now dissolved
• The Alliance for Workers' Liberty, a Third Camp Trotskyist organisation in Britain
• The Alliance (France), a centrist, liberal, ecologist, and social-liberal coalition from 2011 to 2012
• The Alliance (Hong Kong)
• Alliance Party (Malaysia), a coalition from 1953 to 1975
• Alliance (New Zealand political party), a left-wing party
• Alliance Party of Northern Ireland
• Alliance (Poland), a party
• Alliance (Saint Martin), a party
• Alliance (Sweden), an alliance of four centre-right parties in the Riksdag
• SDP–Liberal Alliance, an alliance of the Social Democratic Party and the Liberal Party

Businesses

• Alliance Air (India), former name of Air India Regional, an airline
• Alliance Air (Uganda), an airline from 1995 to 2000
• Alliance Airlines, an Australian charter airline
• Alliance Films, a Canadian former motion picture distribution/production company
• Alliance Game Distributors, a North American distributor of RPGs, board-games and card games.
• Alliance Group, a New Zealand sheep meat producer based in Invercargill
• Alliance Healthcare, a European wholesaler, distributor and retailer of pharmaceutical, surgical, medical and healthcare products
• Alliance Tire Company, a tire manufacturing company based in Hadera, Israel
• Alliance Trust plc, a publicly traded investment and financial services company headquartered in Dundee, Scotland

Ships

• HMS Alliance, three ships
• USS Alliance, two ships
• NRV Alliance, a research vessel of the Centre for Maritime Research and Experimentation

Automobiles

• Alliance (1904 automobile), an early German automobile
• Alliance (1905 automobile), an early French automobile
• Renault Alliance, a subcompact manufactured from 1983 to 1987 for North America

In arts and entertainment

• The Alliance (dancehall), a group of dancehall artists founded by Bounty Killer
• Alliance (sculpture), in the centre of Cardiff, Wales
• Alliance (DC Comics), a fictional organization of alien freedom fighters
• Alliance (Firefly), a fictional government in the Serenity franchise
• "The Alliance" (The Office episode)
• Alliance Theatre, a theater company in Atlanta, Georgia
• Alliance, a nation in the science fiction Alliance–Union universe of C. J. Cherryh
• Alliance, a 1990 science fiction novel by Jerry Oltion in the Isaac Asimov's Robots and Aliens series
• The Alliance (Warcraft), an alliance in World of Warcraft
• Alliances, an expansion for the trading card game Magic: The Gathering from the Ice Age block
• "Alliances" (Star Trek: Voyager), a 1996 episode in the TV series Star Trek: Voyager
• Alliances (novel), a Dragonlance book by Paul B. Thompson and Tonya C. Cook
• Alliances (The Wire), a 2006 episode of The Wire
• Stargate SG-1: Alliances, a 2006 novel by Karen Miller
• Alliance (eSports), a eSports organization

Schools

• Alliance University, Bangalore, India, a private university established in 2010
• Alliance College, Cambridge Springs, Pennsylvania, an independent, liberal arts college which closed in 1987
• Alliance High School (disambiguation)

Other uses

• David Alliance, Baron Alliance (born 1932), British businessman and Liberal Democrat politician
• Alliance (taxonomy), an informal taxonomic grouping of species or genera that have at some time been considered similar
• Alliance (phytosociology), a unit of vegetation in phytosociology
• Alliance Pipeline, a Canadian natural gas pipeline
• The Alliance (professional wrestling), a professional wrestling faction
• Alliance Jiu Jitsu, Brazilian jiu-jitsu association
• Alliance (basketball), a Central Basketball League based in Alliance, Ohio, for the 1908–09 season

See also

• Alianza (disambiguation)
• Alliances (disambiguation)
• Confederacy (disambiguation)
• Northern Alliance (disambiguation)
• Unholy Alliance (disambiguation)
• Alliance coupler