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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A former economic and defensive confederation of free towns in northern Germany and neighboring areas. Traditionally dated to a protective alliance formed by Lübeck and Hamburg in 1241, it reached the height of its power in the 1300s and held its last official assembly in 1669.
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- noun a commercial and defensive confederation of free cities in northern Germany and surrounding areas; formed in 1241 and most influential in the 14th century when it included over 100 towns and functioned as an independent political power; the last official assembly was held in 1669
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Is the Hansa the same association that I know as the Hanseatic League?
In Our Time: The Peasants' Revolt Carla 2006
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Founded in the 12th century, the city exudes an independent air, likely a product of its maritime heritage as a major Baltic port and its centuries-long status as a free city-state governed not by royalty but by wealthy merchants who helped found the powerful economic alliance known as the Hanseatic League.
Thestar.com - Home Page OMAR SACIRBEY 2011
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The original European common market dates back to the 13th century, when the Hanseatic League formed in the northern German city of L ü beck and expanded across Europe's North and Baltic Sea regions.
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Admittedly, my task would be easier if the ambassador from the Hanseatic League would conclude his peroration on the vital necessity of expanding the tax and customs concessions granted to his trading guild, including listing each of them in excruciating detail.
Secret History of Elizabeth Tudor, Vampire Slayer Lucy Weston 2011
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Admittedly, my task would be easier if the ambassador from the Hanseatic League would conclude his peroration on the vital necessity of expanding the tax and customs concessions granted to his trading guild, including listing each of them in excruciating detail.
Secret History of Elizabeth Tudor, Vampire Slayer Lucy Weston 2011
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Much later, in the late Middle Ages, the Hanseatic League, a league of merchant associations within the cities of Northern Germany and the Baltic, was formed in part to protect maritime trade from Baltic pirates.
David Isenberg: It's Private Sector vs. Private Sector in the Ultimate Maritime Smackdown David Isenberg 2011
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There was no Egypt at all, Greek antiquity did not include Gods or mythology, there was a bit about the Middle Ages, some stuff about the Hanseatic League, something about the Reformation and that was more or less it.
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The styling is similar to those in Germany from the Hanseatic League trade treaties
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He suggests, for example, that the world owes parliamentary government to Iceland, and massive intercontinental trade to the Hanseatic League, and massive long-distance fishing to the Atlantic cod banks and Atlantic whaling, and so on.
Salty tales from the briny deep kEN rINGLE 2010
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This summer I visited the eco-municipality of Visby, one of the greenest cities in Sweden on the island of Gotland -- once a Viking raiding center and later a major trading city in the Hanseatic League.
Derek Shearer: Happy Days Are Not Here Again: Obama, China and the Coming Great Contraction 2010
chained_bear commented on the word Hanseatic League
Usage/historical note can be found in comment on sterling.
February 6, 2017