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Definition of Hanseatic league

Hanseatic league
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.
Hanseatic league
Hanseatic Han`se*at"ic, a. Pertaining to the Hanse towns, or to their confederacy. Hanseatic league. See under 2d Hanse.

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- The Hanseatic League was a medieval commercial and defensive network of merchant guilds and market towns in Central and Northern Europe. Growing from a...
- The New Hanseatic League, or the Hansa, also called the Hanseatic League 2.0, was established in February 2018 by European Union finance ministers from...
- Hanseatic flags are the banners of Hanseatic cities that were flown by cogs and other ships of the Hanseatic League from 13th to 17th centuries. Originally...
- signed at Stralsund, secured the Hanseatic League's position as a great power in Northern Europe. The Danish–Hanseatic War is split into two parts, one...
- official name reflects Hamburg's history as a member of the medieval Hanseatic League and a free imperial city of the Holy Roman Empire. Before the 1871...
- independent of royalty. In the 14th century, Lübeck became the "Queen of the Hanseatic League", and at that time, the largest and most powerful member of this medieval...
- beginning with the Hanseatic League and ending with the Great Northern War. In the second half of the 14th century, the Hanseatic League dominated the trading...
- The Dano-Hanseatic War, also known as the Kalmar War with the Hanseatic League, or the Danish-Hanseatic War of 1426-1435, was an armed trade conflict between...
- city of the Hanseatic League remained Lübeck, where in 1356 the first general diet was held and its official structure was announced. The league declined...
- of the Hanseatic League in London, and their main trading base in England, between the 13th and 16th centuries. The main goods that the League exported...