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Definition of Mafias

Mafia
Maffia Maf"fi*a, Mafia Ma"fi*a, n. [It. maffia.] A secret society which organized in Sicily as a political organization, but is now widespread among Italians, and is used to further or protect private interests, reputedly by illegal methods.

Meaning of Mafias from wikipedia

- violence. Mafias often engage in secondary activities such as gambling, loan sharking, drug-trafficking, prostitution, and fraud. The term Mafia was originally...
- media, the mafias are usually mentioned by the name of the economic sector in which they are involved. Terms such as coal mafia, timber mafia (sometimes...
- Mafia!, also known as Jane Austen's Mafia!, is a 1998 American crime comedy film directed by Jim Abrahams and starring Jay Mohr, Lloyd Bridges (in one...
- connections to Albanian mafia groups in Albania or Europe, ranging from loosely connected to or mostly independent of Albanian mafias in Europe to being essentially...
- Retrieved 17 July 2019. Letizia Paoli (2020). What Makes Mafias Different? Review of Paoli, Mafia Brotherhoods Archived 2007-09-27 at the Wayback Machine...
- The American Mafia, commonly referred to in North America as the Italian-American Mafia, the Mafia, or the Mob, is a highly organized Italian-American...
- The Armenian mafia (Armenian: Հայկական մաֆիա, romanized: Haykakan mafia) is a general term for organized criminal gangs that consist of ethnic Armenians...
- USSR, including also the Russian mafia, the Georgian mafia, the Chechen mafia, the Armenian mafia and the Azerbaijani mafia. Ukrainian criminal organizations...
- Palabra de Vor: Las mafias rusas en España (in Spanish). Espasa Forum. ISBN 978-8467034356. Varese, Federico (2005). The Russian Mafia. Oxford University...
- Sicilian Mafia, the original "Mafia", often referred to simply as "the Mafia" American Mafia, an Italian-American offshoot of the original Sicilian Mafia often...