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Definition of Hanse

Hanse
Hanse Hanse, n. [Cf. F. anse handle, anse de panier surbased arch, flat arch, vault, and E. haunch hip.] (Arch.) That part of an elliptical or many-centered arch which has the shorter radius and immediately adjoins the impost.
Hanse
Hanse Hanse, n. [G. hanse, or F. hanse (from German), OHG. & Goth. hansa; akin to AS. h?s band, troop.] An association; a league or confederacy. Hanse towns (Hist.), certain commercial cities in Germany which associated themselves for the protection and enlarging of their commerce. The confederacy, called also Hansa and Hanseatic league, held its first diet in 1260, and was maintained for nearly four hundred years. At one time the league comprised eighty-five cities. Its remnants, L["u]beck, Hamburg, and Bremen, are free cities, and are still frequently called Hanse towns.

Meaning of Hanse from wikipedia

- ships. Hanse is the Old High German word for a band or troop. This word was applied to bands of merchants traveling between the Hanseatic cities. Hanse in...
- Gilbert Hanse (born August 12, 1963) is an American golf course designer. Hanse, along with his business partner Jim Wagner, was selected to design the...
- Hanse [La Hanse (XIIe–XVIIe siècles); German], see references for bibliographical details, p. 55. ISBN 3-520-37105-7. Philippe Dollinger, Die Hanse [La...
- Wessel Johannes Cronje (25 September 1969 – 1 June 2002) was a South African international cricketer and captain of the South Africa national cricket team...
- and twenty-nine people were on board: 307 p****engers and 22 crew. Captain Hanse Singh Narendra (56) served as the captain, with Captain Satwinder Singh...
- HanseYachts AG is a German yacht manufacturer headquartered in the city of Greifswald (Baltic Sea). The company is one of the world's largest manufacturers...
- Hansen (5 February 1924 – 19 October 1967), more commonly known as Wim Hanse, was a Dutch football player. Between 1939 and 1949, he pla**** for Racing...
- Katrina Hanse-Himarwa (22 January 1967 – 14 July 2024) was a Namibian politician. A member of the SWAPO party, she served as Minister of Education, Arts...
- Everald Hanse (died 31 July 1581) was an English priest and a martyr of the Roman Catholic Church. Everald Hanse was born in Northamptonshire and educated...
- community of the London trading post. This was a union of town merchant guilds (hanses) from Cologne, or the Rhineland, and Lübeck and Hamburg. It was maybe more...