Hanseatic League
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Hanseatic League
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From Hanseatic + league.
proper noun the Hanseatic League
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The commercial and military alliance of German (chiefly Low German) merchant guilds and privileged market towns which dominated trade along the coasts of northern Europe from the mid-12th to mid-17th centuries.
Only for a brief two centuries in the Middle Ages did a Baltic community coalesce, under the Hanseatic League of prosperous cities that valued trade over plunder.
Similar: Hansa, Hanse, Hanse association, Hanse league, Hanses
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name former commercial and military alliance
| Español | Liga Hanseática |
|---|---|
| Português | Liga Hanseática |
| Français | Ligue hanséatique, Hanse |
| Deutsch | Hanse |
| Italiano | Lega anseatica |
| Русский | Га́нза Gánza, Ганзе́йский сою́з Ganzéjskij sojúz |
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