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A league is a unit of length.It was common in Europe and Latin America, but is no longer an official unit in any nation.Derived from an ancient Celtic unit and adopted by the Romans as the leuga, the league became a common unit of measurement throughout western Europe.
League: Length: Nautical mile: Length: Rhumb: Angle: The angle between two successive points of the thirty-two point compass (11 degrees 15 minutes) (rare) [1] Shackle: Length: Before 1949, 12.5 fathoms; later 15 fathoms. [2] Toise: Length: Toise was also used for measures of area and volume Twenty-foot equivalent unit or TEU: Volume
A league is equivalent to 5,000 varas squared or 4,428.4 acres (1,792.11 ha). Standardisation of measurement in Texas came with the introduction of varas , cordeles, and leagues. A measure of 100 by 100 varas (Spanish) is almost 7000 square meters, and is known traditionally throughout Spain and Latin America as a manzana (i.e., a "city block").
This is an old French league, defined as 10 000 (a myriad) pieds. It was the official league in parts of France until 1674. lieue de Paris: 12 000 3.898 km 2.422 miles This league was defined in 1674 as exactly 2000 toises. After 1737, it was also called the "league of bridges and roads" (lieue des Ponts et des Chaussées). lieue des Postes: 13 200
Lunar distance LD ≈ 384 402 km. [10] Average distance between the center of Earth and the center of the Moon. astronomical unit au. Defined as 149 597 870 700 m. [11] Approximately the distance between the Earth and Sun. light-year ly ≈ 9 460 730 472 580.8 km. The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one Julian year. [12]
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"A league and a labor" (4,605.5 acres; 18.638 km 2) was a common first land grant [4] and consisted of a league of land away from the river plus one extra labor of good riparian (river-situated) land. A headright of this much land was granted to "all persons [heads of families] except Africans and their descendants and Indians living in Texas ...