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Definition of Hanse towns

Hanse towns
Hanse Hanse, n. [G. hanse, or F. hanse (from German), OHG. & Goth. hansa; akin to AS. h?s band, troop.] An association; a league or confederacy. Hanse towns (Hist.), certain commercial cities in Germany which associated themselves for the protection and enlarging of their commerce. The confederacy, called also Hansa and Hanseatic league, held its first diet in 1260, and was maintained for nearly four hundred years. At one time the league comprised eighty-five cities. Its remnants, L["u]beck, Hamburg, and Bremen, are free cities, and are still frequently called Hanse towns.

Meaning of Hanse towns from wikipedia

- 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...
- anciently called who inhabited that district of Germany now occupied by the Hanse Towns and their appendages, the earliest traders in modern Europe. Chamber's...
- The United Kingdom had a diplomatic representative to the three sovereign Hanseatic cities of Bremen, Hamburg and Lübeck until German unification in 1871...
- Hanse [La Hanse (XIIe-XVIIe siècles); German], see references for bibliographical details, p. 55. ISBN 3-520-37105-7. Philippe Dollinger, Die Hanse [La...
- Austria, and Prussia renewed the Quadruple Alliance. The princes and free towns, who were not signatories, were invited to accede to its terms, whereby...
- trade with England was centred in Hamburg in those days.: 106  Other Hanse towns resented the success of the Merchant Adventurers and wanted to secure...
- Ref · Catalog 10801 Lüneburg 1992 SK26 Lüneburg, one of the richest Hanse towns, more than 1000 years old. JPL · 10801 10802 Masamifuruya 1992 UL6 Masami...
- politics, and economy. An expansion pack, Patrizier 2: Aufschwung der Hanse, was released in Germany in 2001. A compilation release containing the main...
- Appalachian Barrier Upon Colonial History. — (1899). "The Development of the Hanse Towns in Relation to Their Geographical Environment". Journal of the American...
- was formed in 1790. Further land was lost in the formation of the newer towns of Cairo and Greenville (1803), New Baltimore (1811), and Athens (1815)...