League_(politics)

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The 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

• Alliance
• Confederation

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