legation• A legation was set up in Berlin in 1837 and another in St Petersburg twenty years later.• The roofs of every embassy and legation in London are draped with aerials of every size and shape.• the Cuban legation• At one stage the station, not far from the foreign legations, was connected to them by a tram line.• In 581 a Frankish legationsent by Chilperic I returned from Constantinople with numerousgifts.