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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.
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 Saxon Hansa cities urged Prussia to intervene, but Conrad of Jungingen was more worried about a Danish victory. [32] So only after the cities, led by Lübeck's burgomaster Hinrich Westhof , had liaised [ clarification needed ] the Treaty of Skanör (1395), Albert's defeat manifested [ clarification needed ] , so that Prussia finally sent ...
Map of the Hanseatic League, showing principal Hanseatic cities and Pskov Map of the Teutonic Order State (in salmon) ca. 1455. The establishment of diplomatic and trade relations between the Pskov Republic and the Hansa was logical due to its geographical location, political system and its independence from Novgorod and other Rus' principalities.
Though the League was attempting a blockade on Denmark to stifle their economy, many members of league still traded with Denmark. The Dutch and Teutonic cities in particular were guilty of this, as despite providing financial subsidies to the Hansa, still continued trade with the Danish. As a result, the Hanseatic blockade proved ineffective ...
Hamburg (German: [ˈhambʊʁk] ⓘ, [7] locally also [ˈhambʊɪ̯ç] ⓘ; Low Saxon: Hamborg [ˈhambɔːç] ⓘ), officially the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, [8] [a] is the second-largest city in Germany after Berlin and 6th-largest in the European Union with a population of over 1.9 million.
The first mention of a Hansa Almaniae (a "German Hansa") in English records is in 1282, [4]: 137 concerning merely the community of the London trading post. This was a union of town merchant guilds (hanses) from Cologne, or the Rhineland, and Lübeck and Hamburg. It was maybe more the result of government pressure from London and the English ...