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Hanse towns
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.
Townsfolk
Townsfolk Towns"folk`, n. The people of a town; especially, the inhabitants of a city, in distinction from country people; townspeople.
Township
Township Town"ship, n. 1. The district or territory of a town. Note: In the United States, many of the States are divided into townships of five, six, seven, or perhaps ten miles square, and the inhabitants of such townships are invested with certain powers for regulating their own affairs, such as repairing roads and providing for the poor. The township is subordinate to the county. 2. In surveys of the public land of the United States, a division of territory six miles square, containing 36 sections. 3. In Canada, one of the subdivisions of a county.
Townsman
Townsman Towns"man, n.; pl. Townsmen (-men). 1. An inhabitant of a town; one of the same town with another. --Pope. 2. A selectman, in New England. See Selectman.
Townsmen
Townsman Towns"man, n.; pl. Townsmen (-men). 1. An inhabitant of a town; one of the same town with another. --Pope. 2. A selectman, in New England. See Selectman.

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