Leyden, or Leiden, is a city and municipality in South Holland, Netherlands.
Leyden or Leiden may also refer to:
Places in France Lyon, a major French city Places in the United States Leyden, Colorado Leyden, Massachusetts Leyden, New York Leyden, Wisconsin Leyden Street, Plymouth, Massachusetts Leyden Township, Cook County, Illinois Port Leyden, New York, a village partly within the Town of Leyden, New York
People John of Leiden (1509–1536), Dutch Anabaptist leader Bill Leyden (1917–1970), American television personality John Leyden (1775–1811), British orientalist Matt Leyden (c.1904–1975), Canadian ice hockey administrator Norman Leyden (1917–2014), American conductor, composer and musician Ernst Viktor von Leyden (1832–1910), German physician Lucas van Leyden (1494–1533), Dutch engraver and painter
Science and medicine Leyden jar, a device for storing electric charge invented in 1745 Leyden papyrus X (P. Leyden X), a 3rd-century papyrus codex written in Greek Leiden scale, a temperature scale Factor V Leiden, a variant of human factor V that causes a hypercoagulability disorder Papyrus Leiden 334, an Egyptian hieratic papyrus made during the Nineteenth Dynasty
Sports B.S. Leiden, a basketball club based in Leiden, Netherlands ZVL Leiden, a water polo club in Leiden, Netherlands
Other uses Leyden cheese, a spiced cheese made in the Netherlands Leiden Conventions, an established set of rules, symbols, and brackets used to indicate the condition of an epigraphic or papyrological text in a modern edition The Leiden school, a school of thought in linguistics Leiden University, Leiden and The Hague, South Holland, Netherlands Leyden High School District 212, Cook County, Illinois USS Leyden, the name of United States Navy ships
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