Leine (disambiguation)

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Leine is a river of Thuringia and Lower Saxony, Germany, a tributary to the Aller.

Leine may also refer to:

  • Leine (Eine), a river of Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, tributary of the Eine
  • Leine (Helme), a river of Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, tributary of the Helme
  • Leine, the former German name of the village of Linie, in western Poland

People with that name[edit]

  • Kim Leine (born 1961), Danish-Norwegian author
  • Leine Loman (born 1967), former Dutch international cricketer

See also[edit]

  • Leine Uplands, a region in Germany which forms a part of the Lower Saxon Hills and lies along the Leine
  • Leine Formation, a geologic formation of the Permian, in Germany
  • Leine Palace, the former residence of the Hanoverian kings and current seat of the Landtag of Lower Saxony, in Hanover, Germany
  • Léine croich, a style of shirt (often yellow) historically worn in Ireland and the Scottish Highlands
  • Lèine bhàn, a white or off-white smock formerly worn to church in Scotland by transgressors of ecclesiastical law