Hanseatic League

noun

1. a medieval league of towns of northern Germany and adjacent countries for the promotion and protection of commerce.

Hanseatic League

noun

1. a commercial association of towns in N Germany formed in the mid-14th century to protect and control trade. It was at its most powerful in the 15th century Also calledHansaHanse

Example Sentences

It ultimately included more than eighty cities and became one of the greatest commercial powers in Europe (see Hanseatic League).

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The Hanseatic League had long been offended at their overweening pride; and it now left them and removed its factory to Antwerp.

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In the year 1491 the Hanseatic League held its solemn meetings in this town, which had formerly assembled in Lubeck alone.

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Our old artists revelled in the varied costumes and manifold types that thronged the cities of the Hanseatic League.

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The Germans of the Hanseatic League had formed a colony in the old republic, which had grown very wealthy.

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