(thing) by PikeWake Wed Aug 02 2000 at 10:08:53
Alliance between Hapsburg-controlled countries at the time of the Thirty Years' War, including Spain, Italy, Austria and The low Countries.

After this war the Swedes who fought on the opposing side, use the word "league" (Swedish "liga") to mean roughly: "a band of criminals".

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