Legion

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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.

Armed forces

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
  • List of Roman legions
  • The Theban Legion – a Roman Legion whose members, under a long-lasting tradition, were massacred for their Christian belief
• 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 Napoleonoic 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
• Condor Legion Germans supporting Franco in the Spanish Civil War
• 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

Awards

• Légion d'honneur (France)
• Philippine Legion of Honor
• Legion of Merit (USA)

Veterans' organizations

• American Legion, an organization of United States veterans
• Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, a post-Civil War fraternity of loyal service members
• American Legion Auxiliary, a woman's service organization affiliated with the American Legion
• The Royal British Legion
• Royal Canadian Legion
• Voldemārs Ozols, aka Society of the Cavaliers of the Order of Lāčplēsis & Freedom Fighters "Legion", Latvian veterans' organization

Censorship

• National Legion of Decency/Catholic Legion of Decency - seeking to impose film censorship

Ships

• HMS Legion (1914), a Royal Navy ship sunk in 1921
• HMS Legion (G74), a Royal Navy ship sunk in 1941
• USS American Legion (APA-17)

Battles

• Battle of the City of Legion

Pop culture

Games

• Legions (Magic: The Gathering), a set of cards in a game
• Legion Arena, a computer game released in 2005
• Alpha Legion, in the fictional universe of Warhammer 40,000
• A recurring enemy in the Castlevania video game series
• In Mass Effect 2, as one of the principal antagonists, Legion is a "naturally-evolved" geth that's obsessed with (and stalking) Commander Shepard for unknown reasons.
• Legion, central villain of the video game Shadow Man
• "Legions of the Damned", demons in Disciples: Sacred Lands

Film and television

• Legion, the alien kaiju seen in the film Gamera 2: Attack of Legion
• Legion of Super Heroes (TV series), inspired by the DC Comics superhero team
• "Legion" (Law & Order: Criminal Intent episode), the eighteenth episode in the second season of Law & Order: Criminal Intent
• "Legion" (Red Dwarf), the second episode of Red Dwarf Series VI
• Legion (film) upcoming 2010 fantasy/horror film
• "Legion", the eleventh episode in the eighth season of the American television series Smallville

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)

Music

• Legion (album), an album by Deicide
• Legion (musician), Swedish vocalist of black metal
• Legion Records
• "Legion" is a song by VNV Nation from the album Empires
• "Legion" is a song by Junkie XL from the album Big Sounds of the Drags
• "Legion" is a song by Saviour Machine from the album Saviour Machine I
• "Legion" is a song by HammerFall from the album No Sacrifice, No Victory
• "Legion" is a song by At the Gates

Places

• Legion Field, a stadium in Birmingham, Alabama
• Legion Park, a stadium in Great Falls, Montana
• Legion Sports Complex, a complex in Wilmington, North Carolina
• Legion Stadium, the main stadium in the Legion Sports Complex
• Legion State Park
• Colchester Legion Stadium, a stadium in Truro, Nova Scotia

Other

• 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 Romania or National Legionary State, terms used sometimes for the period of Romanian history when the above dominated the country's politics
  • "Legionnairism", present Fascist ideology claiming heritage of the above (see Noua Dreaptă)
• 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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