The Hanseatic League was a medieval commercial and defensive network of merchant guilds and market towns in Central and Northern Europe. Growing from a...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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The Danish–Hanseatic rivalry was the rivalry between the German Hanseatic League and the Kingdom of Denmark, which lasted from the late 14th century up...
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Lübeck (redirect from Free and Hanseatic City of Luebeck)
Low German: Lübęk or Lübeek [ˈlyːbeːk]; Latin: Lubeca), officially the Hanseatic City of Lübeck (German: Hansestadt Lübeck), is a city in Northern Germany...
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Steelyard (category Trading posts of the Hanseatic League)
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...
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Look up Hanseatic in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The Hanseatic League was a trading alliance in northern Europe in existence between the 13th and...
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Kontor of Bruges (category Trading posts of the Hanseatic League)
The Kontor of Bruges was the Hanseatic kontor, one of the Hanseatic League's four major trading posts, in Bruges, County of Flanders. A kontor was a corporation...
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Hamburg (redirect from Hanseatic city of Hamburg)
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...
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Siege of Helsingborg (1368–1369) (category Battles involving the Hanseatic League)
during the Danish–Hanseatic War (1361–1370). Despite withstanding many sieges, Helsingborg would capitulate to the Hanseatic League. The strong fortress...
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Siege of Copenhagen (1368) (category Battles involving the Hanseatic League)
and Absalon's Castle in 1368 between Denmark and the Hanseatic League, during the Danish-Hanseatic War (1361–1370). The city was looted and Absalon's castle...
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Siege of Lindholmen (category Battles involving the Hanseatic League)
during the Danish-Hanseatic War of 1361 – 1370 between Sueco–Hanseatic and Danish forces. The siege ended in a Danish victory: the Hanseatic leader Bruno Warendorp...
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Bremen (redirect from Hanseatic city of Bremen)
[ˈʃtatɡəˌmaɪndə ˈbʁeːmən] ), is the capital of the German state Free Hanseatic City of Bremen (Freie Hansestadt Bremen), a two-city-state consisting...
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Peterhof (Novgorod) (category Trading posts of the Hanseatic League)
Latin: curia sancti Petri) was the Hanseatic kontor, one of the four major trading posts of the Hanseatic League, on the right bank of the Volkhov at...
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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...
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Free City of Lübeck (redirect from Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck)
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...
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Nykøbing Castle, Falster between Danish and Swedish forces during the Danish-Hanseatic War (1361–1370). The Siege ended in a Swedish victory, though the Danes...
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Kontor (category Trading posts of the Hanseatic League)
the Hanseatic League.: 127 Kontors were legal persons established in a foreign city, that means a city that did not belong to the Hanseatic League, with...
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French consul to the free city of Hamburg, the leading city of the Hanseatic League. He was supposed to enforce the measures for the commercial war against...
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The Wash (section Hanseatic League)
when sea trade with Europe was dominated by the League. It still retains two medieval Hanseatic League warehouses: Hanse House built in 1475 and Marriott's...
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History of Bremen (city) (section Hanseatic League)
Middle Ages, its governing merchant guilds were at the centre of the Hanseatic League, which sought to monopolise the North Sea and Baltic trade. To establish...
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History of Hamburg (section Hanseatic League)
strengthened this position. The city was a member of the medieval Hanseatic trading league and a free imperial city of the Holy Roman Empire. From 1815 until...
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The Anglo-Hanseatic War was a conflict fought between England and the Hanseatic League, led by the cities of Danzig and Lübeck, that lasted from 1469 to...
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Wismar (redirect from Hanseatic Town of Wismar)
(German pronunciation: [ˈvɪsmaʁ]; Low German: Wismer), officially the Hanseatic City of Wismar (Hansestadt Wismar) is, with around 43,000 inhabitants...
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Swedish War of Liberation (category Wars involving the Hanseatic League)
alliance. The Hanseatic League, represented by the Free City of Lübeck, which had a virtual monopoly on trade with Sweden and Bergslagen. The League was allied...
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aristocracy who sought to counter the influence of the Hanseatic League, a northern German trade league centered around the Baltic and North Seas. Denmark...
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History of the North Sea (section Hanseatic League)
with each other as well as with the Baltic and the Mediterranean. The Hanseatic League, a confederation of merchant guilds and market towns, dominated sea...
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under the control of the Hanseatic League for a fixed period of fifteen years. On 24 May 1370, representatives from the Hanseatic cities, Denmark and Norway...
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wooden buildings on Bryggen in Bergen, Norway. The museum covers the Hanseatic League period of time in Bergen. The German guild of merchants had created...
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