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Mafia primarily refers to a number of Italian criminal organizations, particularly the Sicilian Mafia and the American Mafia. The term is often applied to other criminal societies as well.
[edit] Criminal organizations
[edit] Southern Italy
[edit] Other countries
[edit] Entertainment
- Mafia Island, part of Tanzania
- Berkeley Mafia, a group of Indonesian economists
- Bomber Mafia, a close-knit group of American military men who believed that long range heavy bomber aircraft in large numbers were able to win a war
- Greenhouse Mafia, a 2006 program on Four Corners about Australia's failure to respond to global warming
- Kiambu Mafia, referring to people from Kiambu District, Kenya, who benefited from the political ascendancy of the Kenyan African National Union and Jomo Kenyatta in association with the independence of Kenya in 1963
- Lesbian Sex Mafia, a New York City group for the support of alternative culture women
- Memphis Mafia, a group of associates of Elvis Presley from 1954 until he died
- Scottish mafia, a pejorative term for a group of Scottish politicians supposedly in control of the British Government in the recent Labour administrations
- The Main Event Mafia (M.E.M.), a Professional wrestling stable
- MAFFIA, a pejorative name for the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, a UK Government ministry
[edit] Distinguish from
- mafic, a geological / mineralogical term