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Legion originally described a unit of the ancient Roman army. While the word still often has military connotations, "legion" also has many other uses. [edit] Armed forces [edit] Military units The Roman legion was the basic military unit of the ancient Roman army. A full-strength legion contained 10,000 men, though it was not uncommon for most legions to be undermanned due to previous battles. In modern times, however, the term "legion" usually denotes a special unit clearly distinguished from others, often including soldiers with either a specific national or ethnic origin and/or a specific political, ideological or religious allegiance. - Roman legion
- Czechoslovak Legions in WWI
- Legion of the United States, an early United States land force
- Hampton's Legion, a combined arms force of the Confederate States Army recruited and led by Wade Hampton III in the American Civil War
- Foreign legion
- King's German Legion in the Napoleonic Wars
- Nauvoo Legion, a militia playing a significant part in early Mormon history
- The Arab Legion (al-Jaysh al-Arabī) was the regular army of Transjordan, predecessor of the present Jordanian Army
- Condor Legion, unit of "volunteers" from the German Luftwaffe serving with the Nationalist side during the Spanish Civil War
- International Legion founded by Garibaldi
- Mickiewicz's Legion, Polish exiles fighting in 1848 Italy
- Polish Legions in World War I
- Waffen-SS, a military unit called SS Legion
- Polish Legions (Napoleonic period)
- Polish Legions, eleven units at different times between the 18th and 20th Centuries
- Roman Legion (19th Century) serving Pope Pius IX's last-ditch effort to preserve the Church's temporal power in Rome (see Ferdinand Esterhazy)
- Spanish Legion
- Volga Tatar Legion, one of several units formed by Wehrmacht out of Soviet POW's, according to their ethnicity
- Irish Legion, the Irish Legion (French: Legion irlandaise) was originally created for a proposed invasion of Ireland
- La Legion Noire (The Black Legion) in the French Revolutionary Army
- Italian Legione Redenta in the 1918 Siberian Intervention
- National Legion (Légion Nationale/Nationaal Legioen) 1920's-1930's far right Belgian paramilary and political movement, headed by Paul Hoornaert
- Legion Belge, fighting on the side of the French Revolution
- Légion Belge, name recalling the above, WWII resistance movement, far right but anti-Nazi
- Legion of French Volunteers Against Bolshevism (LVF) - pro-Nazi French
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[edit] Veterans' organizations [edit] Film rating and censorship organizations [edit] Battles [edit] Pop culture [edit] Film and television [edit] Literature and comic books - Legion (novel), a novel by William Peter Blatty
- Legion of Super-Heroes, a DC comics superhero team
- L.E.G.I.O.N., a DC Comics title
- Legion (Marvel Comics), an antihero in Marvel Comics
- Legion (DC Comics), a supervillain in DC Comics
- Ghostbusters: Legion, a comic book series
- Legion of Space Series, science fiction series by Jack Williamson
- The Legion of Space, a novel in the Legion of Space Series by Jack Williamson
- The Legion of Time, a collection of two science-fiction novels by Jack Williamson
- Space Legion, created by Robert Asprin, unconnected with Williamson's earlier one
- Legion (Warhammer 40,000), a Horus Heresy novel by Dan Abnett, published by Black Library (Games Workshop)
- Legion (play), a play by Hal Corley
- The Misplaced Legion, An Emperor for the Legion, The Legion of Videssos & The Swords of the Legion, series by Harry Turtledove
- Legion, in the army of the fictional The Domination, a unit numbering about 13,000, the equivalent of an Army Division
- The Book of Luke in the New Testament mentions "Legion" as the name of a demon (Luke 8:30)
[edit] Places - Legion of Doom, several meanings - see specific page
- Legion (biology), a taxonomic term in biology
- Legion (demon), also known as the Gadarene Demon, in the New Testament: "My name is Legion"
- Legion (software), a computer software system
- Legion Interactive, an Australian telecommunications company
- Racine Legion/Tornadoes, an American football team
- "Legion of the Archangel Michael", formal name of the major Romanian Fascist movement in the 1930s and 1940s, more often called "Iron Guard"
- Legionary ant or Army ant, particularly aggressive types of ant
- Legion of Christ (contemporary religious organization)
- Legion of Mary (Latin: Legio Mariae), an association of Catholic laity
- Legionella, a bacterium
- Lajjun, Palestinian village whose name is derived from "Legion"
- Anonymous (group), The first part of the Anonymous creed is "We are Legion"
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