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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

- the Hanse towns met irregularly in Lübeck for a Hansetag [de] (Hanseatic Diet) – starting either around 1300,: 59  or possibly 1356.: 66  Many towns chose...
- The United Kingdom had a diplomatic representative to the three sovereign Hanseatic cities of Bremen, Hamburg and Lübeck until German unification in 1871...
- 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...
- in Granada. James George Wiedemann was the acting consul of the free Hanse Towns, also known as the Hanseatic Consul. He was in San Juan Del Norte, when...
- This changed the momentum as South Africa secured wins in Durban and Cape Town, where Cronje scored his fourth test century. He was the first captain since...
- The Hanse Sail in Rostock is the largest maritime festival in Mecklenburg (Germany) and one of the largest in Europe. About 250 traditional sailing ships...
- Santo Domingo. His father served as British Consul to Hamburg and the Hanse towns and later as envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to Württemberg...
- regarded by the Hanseatic League as "pirates who did much damage to the Hanse towns." During the later years of the reign of Christian I, Pining and Pothorst...
- Appalachian Barrier Upon Colonial History. — (1899). "The Development of the Hanse Towns in Relation to Their Geographical Environment". Journal of the American...
- Hanse [La Hanse (XIIe–XVIIe siècles); German], see references for bibliographical details, p. 55. ISBN 3-520-37105-7. Philippe Dollinger, Die Hanse [La...