League
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - Cite This SourceThe term League may refer to:
Measurement
- League (unit), an obsolete unit of length of an hour's walk: usually equal to three miles.
- Roman league, one of the Ancient Roman units of measurement, approximately 1.5 miles
Countries
- League of Nations
- Leagues of Inner Mongolia
- Hanseatic League
- Holy League (1538)
- Peloponnesian League
- Catholic League, multiple meanings
- Arab League
- City-state
- Lombard League,
- Delian League
Groups of people
- League of Women Voters
- League of the Public Weal, an alliance of feudal nobles organized in 1465 in defiance of the centralized authority of King Louis XI of France
- League of Spiritual Discovery, a Baltimore-based arts and politics group
- League of Social Democrats of Vojvodina, a regional autonomist political party in Serbia
- Catholic League (French), created by Henry I, Duke of Guise in 1576 and was bent upon extirpating Protestantism in France
Sports
- National League, American baseball league founded in 1876
- Sports league
- League system
- Rugby league
- All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL)
Fiction, music, and entertainment
- League of Nobles in the Dune prequel series written by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson
- Justice League of America, a popular American superhero team and comic book published by DC Comics
- The Red-Headed League, 1892 story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- A League of Their Own, 1992 film which tells a fictionalized account of the real-life All-American Girls Professional Baseball League
- The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel, 1919 novel, sequel to the 1903 play/novel The Scarlet Pimpernel''
- The League of Gentlemen (film), a 1959 movie directed by Basil Dearden and starring Jack Hawkins
- The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, 1999 graphic novel written by Alan Moore and illustrated by Kevin O'Neill
- The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (film) 2003 film adaptation of the novel
- La Lega, an Italian song
- Solarian League, a fictional star nation in David Weber's Honorverse
- Terran League, a fictional confederation of planets populated by those descended mainly from old Earth Asians, in David Weber's 1992 book Path of the Fury.
Other uses
- League Collegiate Wear, a college apparel company
See also
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