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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...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • 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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    Kontor (category Trading posts of the Hanseatic League)
    of the Hanseatic League.: 127  Kontors were legal entities established in a foreign city (ie. a city that did not belong to the Hanseatic League), with...
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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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    [ˈʃtatɡəˌmaɪndə ˈbʁeːmən] ), is the capital of the German state of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen (Freie Hansestadt Bremen), a two-city-state consisting...
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    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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    dockworkers played a crucial role in the trade networks of Europe. The Hanseatic League, a powerful trading confederation in Northern Europe, employed dockworkers...
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    powers, especially the Hanseatic cities against which he also fought. From 1426 to 1435, he was at war with the German Hanseatic League and Holstein. When...
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    The Danish–Hanseatic rivalry was a rivalry between the German Hanseatic League and the Kingdom of Denmark, which lasted from the late 14th century up...
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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 Hanseatic League, he was regarded as a hero by the Swedish people. Furthermore, when Sweden did develop, freed itself from the Hanseatic League, and...
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  • beginning with the Hanseatic League and ending with the Great Nordic War. In the second half of the 14th century, the Hanseatic League dominated the trading...
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    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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    foreign powers over the Latvians and their territory. As a member of the Hanseatic League, Riga's prosperity grew throughout the 13th–15th centuries—with Riga...
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    Bryggen (category Trading posts of the Hanseatic League)
    Around 1350 a Kontor of the Hanseatic League was established there, and Tyskebryggen became the centre of the Hanseatic commercial activities in Norway...
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    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...
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    Riga (category Members of the Hanseatic League)
    a flat and sandy plain. Riga was founded in 1201, and is a former Hanseatic League member. Riga's historical centre is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, noted...
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    entity with the strength to resist and compete against the might of the Hanseatic League. In 1363, aged ten, Margaret married Haakon VI. In 1370, they had a...
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    (German pronunciation: [ˈvɪsmaʁ]; Low German: Wismer), officially the Hanseatic City of Wismar (Hansestadt Wismar) is, with around 43,000 inhabitants...
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