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The Hanseatic League was an alliance of trading cities that maintained a trade monopoly over most of Northern Europe and the Baltic, between the 13th and 17th centuries.
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* Middle Low German ( 14th – 16th century, during the heyday of the Hanseatic League ).
This decision of the Order was in keeping with its general strategy of espousing the trade association that in 1358 would become the Hanseatic League.
Membership in the Hanseatic League meant having important trading contacts with England, Flanders, France, and the Netherlands.
By 1618 Elbląg had left the Hanseatic League owing to its close business dealings with England.
Meanwhile, the Hanseatic League was gaining in power, threatening Scandinavian commerce.
Historically an important seaport and shipbuilding center, Gdańsk was a member of the Hanseatic League.
Category: Members of the Hanseatic League
Bishop Hans Brask's original justifications for the canal's construction were the onerous Sound Dues imposed by Denmark – Norway on all vessels passing through the narrow Øresund channel between Sweden and Denmark and the trouble with the Hanseatic League.
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Main trading routes of the Hanseatic League
Long-distance trade in the Baltic intensified, as the major trading towns became drawn together in the Hanseatic League, under the leadership of Lübeck.
The Hanseatic League was a business alliance of trading cities and their guilds that dominated trade along the coast of Northern Europe.
Hamburg's official name, Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg ( German: Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg ), reflects Hamburg's history as a member of the medieval Hanseatic League, as a free imperial city of the Holy Roman Empire, and that Hamburg is a city-state and one of the sixteen States of Germany.
Its trade alliance with Lübeck in 1241 marks the origin and core of the powerful Hanseatic League of trading cities.
This was the first time in history that the word hanse was used for the trading guild of the Hanseatic League.
Only the Novgorod Republic escaped occupation and continued to flourish in the orbit of the Hanseatic League.
It was connected to the Hanseatic League city of Bremen by the Leine, and was situated near the southern edge of the wide North German Plain and north-west of the Harz mountains, so that east-west traffic such as mule trains passed through it.
Among his diplomatic achievements were treaties of reciprocity with a number of nations, including Denmark, Mexico, the Hanseatic League, the Scandinavian countries, Prussia and Austria.
Their common enemy was the Hanseatic League and the growing German influence over the Scandinavian economy.
The city later joined the Hanseatic League.
In 1361, Kolberg joined the Hanseatic League.
It was for several centuries the " capital " of the Hanseatic League (" Queen of the Hanse ") and, because of its Brick Gothic architectural heritage, is listed by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site.
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The style known now as bock was a dark, malty, lightly hopped ale first brewed in the 14th century by German brewers in the Hanseatic town of Einbeck.
Upon the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire in 1806, the Free Imperial City of Hamburg was not incorporated into a larger administrative area while retaining special privileges ( mediatised ), but became a sovereign state with the official title of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg.
However, after the Hanseatic League was de facto disbanded in 1669, Lübeck still remained an important trading town on the Baltic Sea.
In 1937 the Nazis passed the so-called Greater Hamburg Act, whereby the nearby Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg was expanded, to encompass towns that had formally belonged to the Prussian province of Schleswig-Holstein.
It was to be the first major city of the southern Baltic and, after 1282, a principal trading centre in the Hanseatic League.
Beginning in the 12th century, Livonia was an area of economic and political expansion by Danes and Germans, particularly by the Hanseatic League and the Cistercian Order.
The Hanseatic League was greatly weakened by this and the city state of Luebeck fought its last great war.
From the 14th to the 16th centuries, Middle Low German as spoken in the towns of the Hanseatic League was the established language, but was subsequently succeeded by High German as official language in the course of the 16th and 17th centuries.
Quedlinburg was forced to leave the Hanseatic League and was subsequently protected by the Electorate of Saxony.
Truso was situated in a central location upon the Eastern European trade routes, which led from Birka in the north to the island of Gotland and to Visby in the Baltic Sea and later included the Hanseatic city of Elbląg.
In 1280, the city ( or as it was then, both cities ) joined the mercantile Hanseatic League, and thus became an important medieval trade centre.
* The Old Town, which is the old Hanseatic town, the " city of the citizens ", was not administratively united with Cathedral Hill until the late 19th century.
Hanseatic and alliance
In 1285 the city became the northernmost member of the Hanseatic League – a mercantile and military alliance of German-dominated cities in Northern Europe.
* The Hanseatic League, a trading alliance between many cities in northern Europe, is officially founded.
The Hanseatic League, known as Hansa or Hanse in various Germanic languages, was a 13th – 17th century alliance of European trading cities.
The Hanseatic alliance with Sweden to attack Denmark initially proved a fiasco since Danish forces captured a large Hanseatic fleet, and ransomed it back for an enormous sum.
* The Hanseatic League, a trading alliance in northern Europe in existence between the 13th and 17th centuries.
The alliance between the Norwegians and the Danes threatened to shift the political and military power in the Nordic and Baltic areas, and in 1365 a series of German protests in the city of Bergen eventually forced the Hanseatic office on Bryggen in the city to be closed until 1366, which temporarily damaged the trade for the kingdom.
Such entities can include multilateral international organizations, military alliance organizations ( e. g. NATO ), multinational corporations, non-governmental organizations, or other institutions such as the Roman Catholic Church, Wal-Mart, or the Hanseatic League.
* Prussian Confederation, an alliance of German Hanseatic cities in Prussia who rebelled against the Teutonic Knights
Since the German part of that region ( the Northern German Plain, except Westphalia and the Rhineland ) is largely concurrent with the area influenced by the Hanseatic League, Brick Gothic has become a symbol of that powerful alliance of cities.
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