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Liebersee
Liebersee (Gräberfeld von Liebersee) is a polycultural prehistoric and early medieval cemetery near Torgau, Saxony, with about 2,000 graves used from around 1200 BC to around 700 AD across Lausitzer, Iron Age, Germanic, Merovingian, and early Slavic phases.
Liebherr Group
The Liebherr Group is a family-owned German technology group founded in 1949 by Hans Liebherr, manufacturing construction machinery, cranes, mining equipment, aerospace components, and refrigerators.
Liebherr-Aerospace
Liebherr-Aerospace is the aerospace and transportation systems segment of the Liebherr Group, headquartered in Toulouse and founded as Liebherr-Aero-Technik by Hans Liebherr in 1960, supplying aircraft systems worldwide.
Liebman's Deli
Liebman's Deli is a kosher-style Jewish delicatessen in the Riverdale section of the Bronx, New York, founded by Joe Liebman in 1953 and known for its in-house cured pastrami.
Liechtenstein
Liechtenstein (Fürstentum Liechtenstein) is a small Central European principality between Switzerland and Austria, founded 1719, in a customs and currency union with Switzerland and the EEA, with a financial sector and commuter-dependent high-income economy.
Liechtenstein general elections, 1862–2021
Liechtenstein general elections choose the 25 members of the Landtag and have been held since the 1862 constitution, evolving from indirect male suffrage to proportional representation.
Liechtenstein in World War II
Liechtenstein in World War II: the neutral, unarmed principality (11,000 people, 160 km2) between Switzerland and the Third Reich, its 1939 neutrality declaration, the VDBL Nazi movement, Swiss war-economy integration, refugees, and the 2001-2005 historians' commission.
Liechtenstein national football team
Liechtenstein men's national football team (Liechtensteiner Fussballverband), UEFA/FIFA member since 1974; debuted 1982, first win 1998 vs Azerbaijan, seven competitive wins, only UEFA member without a domestic league.
Liechtenstein olympic committee
Liechtenstein Olympic Committee (LOC), Liechtensteinisches Olympisches Komitee: National Olympic Committee founded 1935, based in Schaan; president Stefan Marxer, secretary general Beat Wachter; runs Olympic missions, athlete funding squads, and 50% athlete employment.
Lied
Lied (plural Lieder), German for "song", denotes the German art song for solo voice and piano, central to Romantic music; Kunstlied distinguishes it from Volkslied; Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, Wolf, and Strauss are its principal composers.
Liedermacher
Liedermacher is a German term for a singer-songwriter in German-speaking countries who writes or adapts the words and music of the songs they perform, usually on guitar.
Lief Festival
Lief Festival is a one-day dance-music festival held each early September at the Recreatieplas Strijkviertel lake in Utrecht, the Netherlands, running since 2006 with house, techno, disco, and funk.
Liège
Liège (Luik, Lüttich) is a Meuse-river city in eastern Belgium, fourth largest in the country, former prince-bishopric seat, home of the University of Liège (1817), a 2025 tramway, major port and e-commerce airport hub.
Liège Island
Liège Island (Ile Liège, Isla Lieja): island 9 mi long, 3 mi wide in the Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica, immediately NE of Brabant Island at 64°02'S 61°55'W; charted and named for Belgium's Liège province by the Belgica expedition 1897-99 under de Gerlache.
Liège waffle
Liège waffle (gaufre de Liège): dense Belgian street-food waffle from Liège, Wallonia, made of yeasted brioche dough with caramelizing pearl sugar, baked in a 24-hole iron, eaten plain by hand, distinct from the lighter Brussels waffle.
Liège–Bastogne–Liège
Liège–Bastogne–Liège, La Doyenne, is Belgium's oldest Monument one-day cycling race, first run in 1892. A 260 km Ardennes out-and-back with climbs like La Redoute; record five wins by Eddy Merckx, four by Pogačar.
Lieguo Zhi Zhuan
Lieguo Zhi Zhuan (列國志傳, Chronicle of the States, Transmitted) is a Chinese historical novel by the Ming dynasty writer Yu Shaoyu narrating six centuries of Zhou dynasty history.
Liejiaomi
Liejiaomi (猎骄靡, c. 177–104 BCE) was king of the Wusun of Central Asia, who rose as a ward of the Xiongnu court and allied with Han China by marriage.
Lieke Klaver
Lieke Klaver (born 1998, Velsen) is a Dutch 400 m sprinter; Olympic mixed 4x400m relay gold and women's relay silver 2024, world 4x400m champion 2023, European indoor 400m champion 2025, PB 49.58.
Lieke Martens
Lieke Martens van Leer (born 1992, Nieuw-Bergen) is a retired Dutch forward; EURO 2017 winner and player of the tournament, The Best FIFA Women's Player 2017, Barcelona 2017–2022 (158 matches, 73 goals, 2021 Champions League), PSG 2022–2025, 160 Netherlands caps.
Liella!
Liella! is an 11-member Japanese school idol group from Love Live! Superstar!!, begun in 2020 with five members and expanded to 11 by 2023, with its first Oricon number 1 in 2024.
Lielow
Lielow is a 2021 two-player abstract strategy game by Michael Amundsen and Alek Erickson, played on a chessboard where stacks grow by moving and the uniquely tallest stack is the king; capture it to win.
Lien
Lien: a security interest or legal right a creditor acquires in a debtor's property to secure a debt, without transferring ownership. Also legal lien, common-law lien. Covers categories (legal, equitable, statutory, maritime, tax), possessory character, and priority rules.
Liene Ozoliņa
Liene Ozoliņa, also published as Liene Ozoliņa-Fitzgerald, is a Latvian sociologist who earned her PhD at the London School of Economics in 2014 and studies post-Soviet neoliberalism.
Lientur
Lientur, also recorded as Blanqueado, was a mestizo Mapuche toqui, or war leader, who fought the Spanish in Chile's Arauco War from 1618 to 1625.
Lienz
Lienz, East Tyrol's district capital in Austria (Stadtgemeinde, Bezirk 707): 12,129 residents, 15.95 km² at 673 m, mayor Elisabeth Blanik; former residence of the Counts of Görz, district seat since 1868.
Lienzo de Tlaxcala
The Lienzo de Tlaxcala is a lost sixteenth-century Mexican pictorial manuscript, a painted cloth commissioned in 1552 documenting the Tlaxcalteca role in the Spanish conquest.
Liepāja
Liepāja, historically known as Libau, is a port city on the Baltic Sea coast of western Latvia, the country's third-largest city with about 67,000 residents and Latvia's third-largest port.
Lieping Chen
Lieping Chen (陈列平) is a Yale immunologist whose laboratory discovered PD-L1 (B7-H1) in 1999 and showed the PD-1/PD-L1 pathway lets tumors evade immune attack, founding cancer immunotherapy.
Lier, Belgium
Lier (Lierre) is a Flemish town in Antwerp Province, Belgium, at the confluence of the Grote and Kleine Nete; city rights since 1212, known for the Zimmer Tower, beguinage, Sint-Gummaruskerk, and 38,747 residents (2026).