legion
Legion ( Latin legio ) means:
- Roman Legion , an army unit in Roman times with 3,000–6,000 soldiers
- derived from this a mixed military unit, often in the service of a foreign country, cf. Examples below
- Troops of volunteer soldiers (volunteer army, mercenary army, in the case of foreign soldiers, the Foreign Legion); see mercenaries
- Legion (demon) , demonic appearance in the New Testament
- Legion (Blatty) , a novel by William Peter Blatty (1983)
- Legion (software) , a computer program
- Legion (computer game) , a strategy game released in 2002
- Legion (film) , an American feature film
- Legion (TV series) , an American television series
- Legion (album) , an album by the band Deicide
- Legion (musician) , bourgeois Erik Hagstedt, a Swedish metal singer
- Legion (Romanian band) , a Romanian thrash metal band
- Legion (Spanish band) , a former Spanish thrash metal band
- The Legion , a Swedish black metal band
- a character from a video game by Acclaim, see Shadow Man (computer game)
- a character from a video game by EA BioWare, see Mass Effect 2
- the sixth expansion of the video game World of Warcraft
Legion is the name of the following police or military organizations:
- Arab Legion , Jordan
- Carabinieri Legions , the name of regional police commands of the Italian Carabinieri
- German-Russian Legion, set up as a Russian troop formation in 1812, renamed the German Legion in 1814, from 1814 infantry regiment "Graf Werder" (4th Rheinisches) No. 30
- Légion étrangère (Foreign Legion), part of the French armed forces
- Georgian Legion , a unit of the German army in the world wars
- Hanseatic Legion 1813
- Islamic Legion , Libya
- Jewish Legion , Battalion No. 38 to 42 made up of Jewish volunteers of the Royal Fusiliers of the British Army from 1914, in the battle between Great Britain and the Ottoman Empire
- King's German Legion , 1803 to 1816, British
- Legion Condor , a formation of the Luftwaffe of the German Reich
- Austrian Legion
- Eastern legions , military units of the German Wehrmacht
- Legión Española , an elite military association of the Spanish army
- Czechoslovak legions , military units in the First World War
Veteran organizations:
- American Legion in the USA
- Royal British Legion in Great Britain
Legion as an order:
- Legion of Honor , a French order
- Legion of Merit , an American military award
Legion is the family name of the following people:
- Alex Legion (* 1988), American basketball player
Other uses:
- Legion of Super-Heroes , a group of teenage superheroes and main characters in US comic series
- LEGION , a fictional intergalactic police force from the US comic series of the same name
See also
Wiktionary: Legion - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
