LEUCA, in antiquity, a geographical measure of length in use among the later Gauls; which, according to Jornandes, who calls it leuga, contained fifteen hundred paces, or one mile and a half. Hence the name of leugar, now reckoned at three miles; in the lower age, called leuva.
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