Commonwealth (disambiguation)

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Commonwealth is an English term meaning a political community.

Commonwealth or Common Wealth may also refer to:

Political entities

See also Places, below

  • Commonwealth Government, used to refer to the Australian Government
  • Commonwealth of Nations, an intergovernmental organisation of 56 member states comprising mostly former British colonies; formerly called British Commonwealth of Nations
  • Commonwealth of Independent States, an intergovernmental organisation of Post-Soviet republics
  • Lusophone Commonwealth, officially the Community of Portuguese Language Countries, an intergovernmental organisation consisting of former Portuguese colonies
  • Commonwealth of England, the republican government ruling England, and later Ireland and Scotland, 1649–1660
  • Commonwealth realm, a sovereign state which has Charles III as its monarch and head of state
  • Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, a constitutional monarchy that ruled Poland, Lithuania and much of Eastern Europe between 1569 and 1795
  • Common Wealth Party, a former political party in the United Kingdom

Arts, entertainment, and media

Literature

  • Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet, a 2004 book by Jeffrey Sachs
  • Commonwealth (Hardt and Negri book), by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri
  • Commonwealth (Goebel novel), a 2008 novel by Joey Goebel
  • Commonwealth (Patchett novel), a 2016 novel by Ann Patchett

Music

  • "Commonwealth" (song), bootleg song by the Beatles
  • Commonwealth (New Grass Revival album), 1981
  • Commonwealth (Sloan album)
  • "Commonwealth", a song by the American band Bright from the album The Miller Fantasies

Periodicals

  • The Commonwealth (Pittsburgh), a 19th-century newspaper in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
  • Commonwealth Magazine a web-based publication that covers politics, policy, ideas, and civic life
  • The Commonwealth, a late-19th century publication of the London branch of the Christian Social Union
  • The Commonwealth, the official publication of the Commonwealth Club of California

Other uses

  • Commonwealth (statue), a 1905 statue on the Pennsylvania State Capitol grounds

Companies and charities

  • Commonwealth (automobile company), a luxury auto company that produced cars from 1917 to 1922
  • Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation, a former Australian aircraft manufacturer
  • Commonwealth Athletic Conference, a high school athletic conference in Massachusetts
  • Commonwealth Bank, an Australian multinational bank
  • Commonwealth Brands, a tobacco company now called Commonwealth-Altadis, part of Imperial Tobacco
  • Commonwealth Engineering, a former Australian engineering company
  • Commonwealth Fund, an American charity promoting health care reform in the United States

Places

United States

  • Commonwealth (U.S. insular area), a term used for two current and one former self-governing U.S. territories
  • Commonwealth (U.S. state), a term used by four U.S. states in their full official state names, specifically:
    • Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the full name of Massachusetts
    • Commonwealth of Kentucky, the full name of Kentucky
    • Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the full name of Pennsylvania
    • Commonwealth of Virginia, the full name of Virginia
  • Commonwealth, Virginia, an unincorporated community
  • Commonwealth, Wisconsin, a town
    • Commonwealth (community), Wisconsin, an unincorporated community within the town
  • Commonwealth Avenue (disambiguation)
  • Commonwealth Club Historic District, a private club in Richmond, Virginia

Elsewhere

Military

  • HMAS Commonwealth, a Royal Australian Navy shore base located in Kure, Japan from 1948 to 1956
  • HMS Commonwealth (1903), a Royal Navy battleship from 1905 to 1921

Schools

See also

  • Commonweal (disambiguation)
  • Commonwealth Bank building (disambiguation)
  • Commonwealth Brigade (disambiguation)
  • Commonwealth Building (disambiguation)
  • Commonwealth Club (disambiguation)
  • Co-operative Commonwealth (disambiguation)
  • Commonwealth Conference (disambiguation)
  • Commonwealth District (disambiguation)
Topics referred to by the same term
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