In Ancient Rome, a league was equivalent to how many Roman miles?

The league was used in Ancient Rome, defined as 1.5 Roman miles (7,500 Roman feet, 2.2 km, 1.4 mi.). The origin is the "leuga gallica" (also: leuca Gallica), the league of Gaul.

A league is a unit of length (or, in various regions, area). It was long common in Europe and Latin America, but it is no longer an official unit in any nation. The word originally meant the distance a person could walk in an hour. Since the Middle Ages, many values have been specified in several countries.

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Pat Salloum

For those who were wondering...a land league and a sea league were different measures. A sea league, being 3 miles, is the basis for the 3 mile territorial limit.

carlthedad

It was actually 1.4 but I won't argue with the expert here.

filmnut

So the Light Brigades Charge was about 2 or 3 miles ?

Ed Taber

The metric system is so much more logical;1 Meter+1/10,000,000 the distance from the Equator to the North Pole on the Paris Meridian.

Colleen Gillett

Wikipedia says it is 3 miles.

Don Storjord

Trickey in the wording

James Clausen

How long is a Roman mile? Indirectly standardized to 5,000 Roman feet by Agrippa in 29 BC. In modern times, Agrippa's Imperial Roman mile is empirically estimated to have been around 1,481 meters (1,620 yards, 4,860 English feet, 0.92 English miles). or is it How long is a Roman league? League, any of several European units of measurement ranging from 2.4 to 4.6 statute miles (3.9 to 7.4 km). In English-speaking countries the land league is generally accepted as 3 statute miles (4.83 km), although varying lengths from 7,500 feet to 15,000 feet (2.29 to 4.57 km) were sometimes employed. Not one of the best questions and answers, I learned nothing.