Some federally recognized tribes are confederacies of more than one tribe. Each of the aforementioned nations and confederacies participated in the ethnogenesis of the Armenians. The Umayyads sought out alliances with various Berber confederacies. In the Middle Ages, Slavic tribal confederacies, and then Slavic states, dominated. They were replaced by loose confederacies of clans. Most spoke several languages, and confederacies sometimes linked widely scattered tribal groups. He solidified his rule among the Berber confederacies. Mahan was the largest and earliest developed of the three confederacies. At least seven of the 12 Sikh "Misls" (Sikh confederacies) were led by Jat Sikhs. The Berbers confederacies beyond the frontier grew increasingly powerful and troublesome. Around 100 BCE, Jin evolved into the Samhan confederacies. The Samhan confederacies were Mahan, Jinhan, and Byeonhan. His sons founded three tribal confederacies named after them&colon; Sarbani, Bettani, and Gharghashti. They lived in bands that were allied in three loose regional confederacies. The "Boii" and "Volcae" were two large Celtic confederacies who generally cooperated in their campaigns.