Lys
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Lys may refer to any of the following:
- Places
- The Lys River or Leie, a river in France and Belgium
- Lys (torrente), a stream of Aosta Valley in Italy
- Lys, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, a commune in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department in France
- Lys (département), a département during the First French Empire, nowadays in Belgium
- Lys, an old orthography of Liss, Hampshire, England
- LYS can also refer to a Local Yarn Shop for knitters or crocheters
- Aviation
- LYS, the IATA Airport Code for Saint-Exupéry International Airport near Lyon, France
- Battles
- Battle of the Lys, a World War I battle in the spring of 1918
- Fiction
- Lys is the name of a city in Arthur C. Clarke's book The City and the Stars.
- Lys is also the name of a city in George R. R. Martin's epic series A Song of Ice and Fire.
- Heraldry
- Fleur-de-lys or Fleur-de-lis, a stylized representation of a lily or iris, used in heraldry
- Science
- Lys is an abbreviation for the amino acid lysine
- People
- Jan Lys (c1590-1629), a German painter