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The Hanseatic League [a] was a medieval commercial and defensive network of merchant guilds and market towns in Central and Northern Europe. Growing from a few North German towns in the late 12th century, the League expanded between the 13th and 15th centuries and ultimately encompassed nearly 200 settlements across eight modern-day countries, ranging from Estonia in the north and east, to the ...
The union of Cities was founded in 1980 in the Dutch Hanseatic city of Zwolle. On the city's 750th anniversary, it invited representatives from 43 former Hanseatic cities to a Hanseatic Day, after which the Union of Cities THE HANSA was founded and the annual organization of a Hanseatic Day was agreed.
This created a personal union between the three nations, birthing the Kalmar Union, named after the city of Kalmar, where the union was ratified. Under Margaret I, the architect of the Kalmar Union, the Hanseatic League was coerced into returning several forts in Scania that the Hansa had seized per the Treaty of Stralsund. [2]
The New Hanseatic League, or the Hansa, [3] also called the Hanseatic League 2.0, [4] was established in February 2018 by European Union finance ministers from Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands and Sweden through the signing of a two-page foundational document [5] that set out the "shared views and values in the discussion on the architecture of the ...
The area's streets are named after "Hansa cities"; cities that were part of the Hanseatic League, a trading network established in the Middle Ages. Hansaplatz, the central square, has a small shopping arcade, a library and the Grips-Theater. Hansaplatz subway station was built in 1957, though the U9 line did not open until 1961.
The Hanseatic Days are held annually in one of the member cities of the New Hansa since 1980, when it was decided to re-establish the Hanseatic League and the first Hanseatic Days were held in Zwolle, the Netherlands. During the festival, Hanseatic cities from different European countries try to position themselves as cities that have rich ...
Satellite image of Europe by night 1916 physical map of Europe Topography of Europe. Some geographical texts refer to a Eurasian continent given that Europe is not surrounded by sea and its southeastern border has always been variously defined for centuries. In terms of shape, Europe is a collection of connected peninsulas and nearby
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 1474.Causes of the war include increasing English pressure against the trade of the Hanseatic cities on the southern coast of the Baltic Sea.