Lys or LYS may refer to:

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Les Lys The Chablis (wine), Chablis region of Burgundy (wine), Burgundy is classified (wine), classified according to four tiers of ''Appellation d'origine contrôlée'' (AOC) designation. The top two are the crus of Chablis and include the 7 Cru (wine)#G ...

, a Premier cru vineyard in Chablis *

Lyon–Saint-Exupéry Airport Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport — formerly known as ''Lyon Satolas Airport'' — is an international airport of Lyon, the third-largest city in France and an important transport facility for the entire Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. It lies in ...

, France (by IATA code) *

Lys (department) Lys (, ) was a department of the French First Republic and French First Empire in present-day Belgium. It was named after the river Lys (Leie). It was created on 1 October 1795, when the Austrian Netherlands and the Prince-Bishopric of Liège wer ...

, a ''département'' during the First French Empire, now in Belgium * Lys (Dora Baltea), a stream of Aosta Valley in Italy *

Lys (river) The Lys () or Leie () is a river in France and Belgium, and a left-bank tributary of the Scheldt. Its source is in Pas-de-Calais, France, and it flows into the river Scheldt, with the confluence in the city of Ghent, Belgium. Its total length ...

, a river in France and Belgium * Lys, Nièvre, a commune in the Nièvre department in France * Lys, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, a commune in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department in France *Lys, an old orthography of Liss, Hampshire, England

Science

*Lys (or K), an abbreviation for the amino acid

lysine Lysine (symbol Lys or K) is an α-amino acid that is a precursor to many proteins. Lysine contains an α-amino group (which is in the protonated form when the lysine is dissolved in water at physiological pH), an α-carboxylic acid group ( ...

*Plural form of the symbol for

light-year A light-year, alternatively spelled light year (ly or lyr), is a unit of length used to express astronomical distances and is equal to exactly , which is approximately 9.46 trillion km or 5.88 trillion mi. As defined by the International Astr ...

People

* Lys (surname) *

Lys Assia Rosa Mina Schärer (3 March 1924 – 24 March 2018), known by her stage name Lys Assia, was a Swiss singer who won the first Eurovision Song Contest in . Assia was born in Rupperswil, Aargau, and began her stage career as a dancer, but changed ...

(1924–2018), Swiss singer * Lys Mouithys (born 1985), Congolese football player

Other uses

Battle of the Lys (1918) The Battle of the Lys, also known as the Fourth Battle of Ypres, was fought from 7 to 29 April 1918 and was part of the German spring offensive in Flanders during the First World War. It was originally planned by General Erich Ludendorff as ...

, a battle of World War I in France in the spring of 1918 *Fleur-de-lys or ''

Fleur-de-lis The ''fleur-de-lis'', also spelled ''fleur-de-lys'' (plural ''fleurs-de-lis'' or ''fleurs-de-lys''), is a common heraldic charge in the (stylized) shape of a lily (in French, and mean and respectively). Most notably, the ''fleur-de-lis'' ...

'', a stylized representation of a lily or iris, used in heraldry * ''Lisans Yerleştirme Sınavı'' ( Student Selection and Placement System), a standardized test for admission to higher education in Turkey *

LYS (sailing) Svenskt Respitsystem (SRS), formerly known as Leading Yard Stick and Lidingö Municipality, Lidingö Yard Stick (LYS). SRS is a semi-empirically based handicapping system used in yacht racing in the Nordic countries. The first version of the hand ...

, a sailing handicapping system *Lys, a key town in Arthur C. Clarke's 1956 book ''

The City and the Stars ''The City and the Stars'' is a science fiction novel by British writer Arthur C. Clarke, published in 1956. This novel is a complete rewrite of Clarke's earlier '' Against the Fall of Night'', his first novel, which had been published in ''Star ...

'' *Lys, a city-state in George R.R. Martin's novels ''

A Song of Ice and Fire ''A Song of Ice and Fire'' is a series of high fantasy novels by the American author George R. R. Martin. Martin began writing the first volume, ''A Game of Thrones'', in 1991, and published it in 1996. Martin, who originally envisioned the ser ...

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