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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]]
* [[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
* [[League Against Cruel Sports]], a UK animal welfare campaign
==French ''Ligues'' (translated "Leagues")==
These are factions of street politics, not political parties running for office.
* [[Far right leagues]] in France, which include the
* [[Ligue des Patriotes]], which is French for "League of Patriots"
* [[Antisemitic League of 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)|''The League of Gentlemen'' (film)]], a 1959 movie directed by Basil Dearden and starring Jack Hawkins
* ''[[Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea]]'', a classic science fiction novel by French writer [[Jules Verne]], published in 1870.
* ''[[The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen]]'', 1999 graphic novel written by Alan Moore and illustrated by Kevin O'Neill
* [[The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (film) |''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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