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Hanseatic League
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This article is about the 13th to 17th century trading monopoly. For the modern business association, see
Hanseatic Parliament.
Hanse
Hanseatic League
Northern Europe in 1400, showing the extent of the Hansa
Capital
Lübeck
Lingua franca
Middle Low German
Membership
Establishment
1358
The Hanseatic League (also known as the Hanse or Hansa;
Low German: Hanse,
Latin: Hansa, Hansa Teutonica or Liga Hanseatica) was an economic alliance of
trading cities and their merchant
guilds that dominated trade along the coast of
Northern Europe. It stretched from the
Baltic to the
North Sea and inland during the
Late Middle Ages and
early modern period (ca 13th?17th centuries).
The League was created to protect commercial interests and privileges granted by foreign rulers in cities and countries the merchants visited. The Hanseatic cities had their own legal system and furnished their own protection and mutual aid. Despite this, the organization was not a city-state nor can it be called a confederation of city-states, only a very small number of the cities within enjoyed autonomy and liberties comparable to those of
The legacy of the Hansa is remembered today in several names, for example the German airline
Lufthansa (i.e., 'Air Hansa') and the
Hanze University Groningen in the Netherlands.
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History
Historians generally trace the origins of the League to the rebuilding of the
North German town of
Lübeck in 1159 by
Henry the Lion,
Duke of Saxony, after Henry had captured the area from Count
Adolf II, Count of
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