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

The LEAGUE (nonprofit), a nonprofit, school and web-based program for service learning.
League of Women Voters
League of the Public Weal, a French alliance of feudal nobles organized in 1465
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 bent upon extirpating Protestantism in France
League Against Cruel Sports, a UK animal welfare campaign
Urban League, a civil rights organization based in New York City

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

The League also listed as TheLeagueTv, a popular internet series about two hitmen. The series won BusinessWeek's Best of 2008 award for comedy.
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
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, a classic science fiction novel by French writer Jules Verne, published in 1870.
30,000 Leagues Under the Sea, a 2007 film starring Lorenzo Lamas
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.