Mafia (disambiguation)

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Mafia primarily refers to the Sicilian criminal organization also known as Cosa Nostra or to its offshoot in the United States of America, sometimes simply referred to as the "American Mafia".

[edit] Criminal Organizations

The word "mafia" may be applied by extension to other criminal organizations with a similar structure, such as:

• Mafia-like criminal organizations based in Southern Italy, such as the Camorra in Campania, 'Ndrangheta in Calabria, Sacra Corona Unita in Apulia, or Stidda or Cosa Nostra in Sicily. .

• Mafia-like criminal organizations based in other countries, such as the Albanian Mafia, Irish Mob in the USA, Organizatsiya in Russia, Yakuza in Japan, Triad society in China, Pashtun Mafia in Pakistan, Dixie Mafia in the southern USA.

[edit] Other

• Mafia: The City of Lost Heaven, a computer game
  • Mafia 2, a planned sequel
• Mafia Island, part of Tanzania
• Mafia (game), a party game
• Jane Austen's Mafia!, a 1998 comedy film
• Mafia (album), an album by Black Label Society
• La Bella Mafia, an album by Lil' Kim
• B.U.G. Mafia or simply Mafia is a Romanian rap group since 1995.
• MAFFIA, a pejorative name for the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, a UK Government ministry.
• The Greenhouse Mafia, a 2006 program on Four Corners about Australia's failure to respond to global warming.
• Three 6 Mafia, a hip hop group from Memphis, Tennessee.
• Memphis Mafia
• Scottish Mafia, a pejorative term for a group of Scottish politicians supposedly in control of the British Government in the recent Labour administrations