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	Hanseatic League - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Hanseatic League (German: die Hanse, Dutch: de Hanze, Polish: Hanza) consisted of an alliance of trading cities that established and maintained a trade monopoly over the Baltic Sea and most of Northern Europe for a time in the later Middle Ages and the Early Modern period, between the 13th and 17th centuries.
		Historians generally trace the origins of the League to the foundation of the town of Lübeck, established in 1158/1159 after the capture of the area by Henry the Lion of Saxony.
		By the late 16th century, the League imploded and was unable to deal with its own internal struggles, the social and political changes that accompanied the Reformation, the rise of Dutch and English merchants, and the incursion of the Ottoman Turks upon its trade routes and the Empire itself.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hanse (2078 words)

	The Hanseatic League
		Hanseatic League (from Old High German hansa, "league"), designation applied to a federation of cities in northern Germany, and of communities of German merchants in the Low Countries, England, and the Baltic region, organized during the 13th century for the protection and enhancement of mutual commercial interests.
		At the peak of its ascendancy, the league was a potent force in the politics of Europe.
		Among these leagues was one comprising certain towns of Westphalia, the Rhineland, and the Low Countries; another one consisted of the trading centers in the duchy of Saxony and the mark of Brandenburg; a third was made up of Prussian and Livonian (Latvian and Estonian) towns.
	www.blackstudies.ucsb.edu /antillians/hanseatic.html (718 words)

	Hanseatic League on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		HANSEATIC LEAGUE [Hanseatic League], mercantile league of medieval German towns.
		The league vigorously extended its operations, founding principal foreign branches at Bruges and Bergen.
		Although assemblies of the league met irregularly at Lübeck, many towns did not send representatives, and decisions were subject to review by the individual towns.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/H/Hanseati.asp (523 words)

	3. The Hanseatic League. 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History
		Bruges was the most ardent champion of Hanseatic unity, and, with Lübeck, was the chief source of such cohesion as the league attained.
		Externally the league was weakened by the disorders of the Hundred Years' War; by the rise of Burgundy and the new orientation thereby given to Dutch trade (e.g., Brill wrested the monopoly of the herring trade from the league); and by the great discoveries and the opening of new trade routes.
		In the 15th century, the league was further weakened by the struggle within the member towns between the democratic guildsmen and the patrician oligarchy.
	www.bartleby.com /67/548.html (1104 words)

	Lalor, Cyclopaedia of Political Science, V.2, Entry 137, HANSEATIC LEAGUE: Library of Economics and Liberty
		HANSEATIC LEAGUE, an association of the principal cities in the north of Germany, Prussia, etc., for the better carrying on of commerce, and for their mutual safety and defense.
		The supreme authority of the league was vested in the deputies of the different towns assembled in congress.
		When they were in a situation to do this, the functions of the Hanseatic merchants ceased as a matter of course; their confederacy fell to pieces; and at the middle of the seventeenth century the cities of Lübeck, Hamburg and Bremen were all that continued to acknowledge the authority of the league.
	www.econlib.org /library/ypdbooks/lalor/llCy528.html (3606 words)

	Hanseatic League (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The league established permanent commercial enclaves (Kontore) in a number of foreign towns, notably Bruges in Flanders, Bergen in Norway, Novgorod in Russia, and the Steel Yard in London.
		The league's members raised an armed force that defeated the Danes decisively in 1368, and in the Peace of Stralsund (1370) Denmark was forced to recognize the league's supremacy in the Baltic.
		The league died slowly as England contested with the Netherlands for dominance in northern European commerce and Sweden emerged as the chief commercial power in the Baltic Sea region.
	www.hfac.uh.edu /gbrown/philosophers/leibniz/BritannicaPages/HanseaticLeague/HanseaticLeague.html (869 words)

	i-Friesland history: The Hanseatic League
		As tax revenues started to flow from the free towns in the Hanseatic alliance to emperors and dukes, the merchants were in a position to influence the lords to pass laws to protect the Hansa cargoes.
		However by the middle of the 1400s the league was already entering a long period of decline.
		Indeed the cities of Hamburg, Lubeck, and Bremen continued to be known as Hanseatic cities until the end of the 19th century.
	www.i-friesland.com /Hanseatic_League.htm (980 words)

	Prof. Rainer Postel, The Hanseatic League and its Decline
		Rainer Postel, The Hanseatic League and its Decline
		In the Hanseatic reply the Lübeck syndic stated that the Hansa was neither a society nor a corporation, it owned no joint property, no joint till, no executive officials of their own; it was a tight alliance of many towns and communities to pursue their respective own trading interests securely and profitably.
		So there was a smaller circle of Hanseatic towns that took part in trade, were invited to the meetings and influenced their decisions, and a wider circle, whose merchants also benefited from Hanseatic privileges.
	www2.hsu-hh.de /hisfrn/hanse.html (5226 words)

	Wikinfo \| Hanseatic League (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The foundations of the Hanseatic League, an alliance of trading cities that for a time in the later Middle Ages and the Early Modern period maintained a trade monopoly over most of Northern Europe and the Baltic, can be seen as early as the 12th century.
		The chief city of the Hanseatic League was Lübeck, founded by Henry the Lion of Saxony in 1159.
		The League also wielded power abroad: between 1368 and 1370, the League's ships fought against the Danes, and forced the Danish king to grant the League 15 percent of the profits from Danish trade (Treaty of Stralsund).
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Hanseatic (725 words)

	Seemotive, Hanse Cog
		The Hanseatic League extended from Scandinavia to Upper Italy and from England to Russia.
		The strongest influences for the development of the Hanseatic League in the North Sea and Baltic Sea arose from the city of Lübeck, depicted on the stamp to the left.
		The Hanseatic League traded the grain surplus from the east, fish from Bergen and Visby, cloth from Brügge and wax, honey, furs and amber from Nowgorod.
	www.shipsonstamps.org /Topics/html/kogge.htm (1952 words)

	The Hanseatic League (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Hanseatic League was an association (Hansa) of north German cities for the promotion of trade.
		The League possessed no central defense organization, so that it was easy to withdraw its privileges when the nation state began to develop.
		The principle trading vessels of the Hanseatic League were the single-masted cog and hulk, which developed into the three-masted caravel and carrack, usually of about 400 tons.
	www.black-knight.org /Deadfire/txt/CRM/Hanseatic.League.html (450 words)

	Hanseatic City Demmin, History of Hanseatic League
		The trading monopoly of the Hanseatic League, however, was undermined by the growing competition of Holland and England which were gaining more and more commercial power.
		A steady and irreversible decline of the Hanseatic League began.
		As its membership in the medieval Hanseatic League is documented, Demmin joined the Hansa Association of the modern age in 1992.
	www.all-in-all.com /1047/english/1047_1.htm (219 words)

	Hanseatic League -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust!
		The cities of the league demanded a share in the Danish revenues for 15 years, the possession of Danish strongholds, and the final voice in the selection of the Danish kings.
		In the Middle Ages it was one of the main commercial centres of northern Europe and the chief city of the Hanseatic League (an association of towns for the protection of trading interests).
		This was the case with the early city leagues, such as the Achaean and Aetolian leagues in ancient Greece and the Hanseatic and the Swabian leagues in Europe; and to a...
	www.britannica.com /ebc/article-9274769 (1274 words)

	Baltic Cooperation --> Hanseatic League (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Hanseatic League originated as a union of independent merchant cities, seeking to defend themselves and to maximize their trading profits.
		Merchants decided to protect one another and the league as a whole in order to secure the conditions that would allow their trade to flourish undisturbed.
		The defeat forced on the members of the Hanseatic League the transformation from a loose trade union to the stronger political and military alliance.
	www.europe-at-school.org /winners_arbeiten/baltic_sea_1-2001/cooperation/hanse.html (747 words)

	ANISTORITON: History Essays (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Nevertheless, in view of all the difficulties which the League had to conquer: deplorable conditions of circulation, inadequate means of transportation, general insecurity, and an insufficiently organized monetary system, it is impossible not to admire the magnitude of the results obtained.
		Therefore the progress accomplished in the domain of international commerce by the Hanseatic League is to be explained solely by the energy, the spirit, and the ingenuity of the merchants themselves, which explains why their contribution is difficult to be estimated.
		The Hanseatic League and its Decline by Prof.
	www.anistor.co.hol.gr /english/enback/e971.htm (2773 words)

	U.S. Ambassador to Finland on Baltic Regional Integration (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The League was a medieval guild of city-based merchants who integrated the international trade of the region, Shearer noted.
		This conference, titled "Towards a New Hanseatic League," was intended to explore recent trends toward economic integration in the economics of the Baltic Sea region.
		Hanseatic businessmen created a mining industry in Sweden; and it was they who went into southern Sweden creating the fair at Scanor and inventing various types of fishing products.
	www.usemb.se /BalticSec/shearer.htm (3786 words)

	The Deep Periphery - Hanseatic League (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Hanseatic League came into existence in the late twenty-night century, founded by exiles from the Lyran Alliance who sought to escape the provisions of Archon Elizabeth Steiner's Military Disaster Order.
		Likewise, Hanseatic agents frequently play the various factions off against each other as a means of driving up the value of their goods and information, though they go to strenuous efforts to avoid excessive bloodshed.
		The Hanseatic rank structure is somewhat abbreviated when compared to that of most Inner Sphere units, with a common uniform for all bar the highest and lowest ranks.
	www.classicbattletech.com /Hanseatic.html (1408 words)

	Hanseatic Cities quiz -- free game
		It joined the Hanseatic league in 13th century and became one of the leading Hanseatic cities.
		It was one of the most important centres of the Hanseatic League.
		It became member of the Hanseatic League in the 14th century.
	www.funtrivia.com /playquiz.cfm?qid=107247&origin= (537 words)

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		The goal of the League was monopoly of the commerce and trade of the Baltic and its neighboring seas.
		As an attractive port to the Hanseatic league a kontor was established in 1269 and from that point on until Novgorod was conquered by Ivan III and sacked by Ivan IV (the terrible), it served as the source of Russian export.
		The Danish peninsula is the sharp demarcation between the Baltic and the North Sea with its treacherous gates at the Skagerrak and Kategat and the narrow, shallow strait between Hamlet's castle at Elsinore and Swedens Helsingborg.
	www.aloha.com /~craven/child899.html (3474 words)

	SEMINAR REPORTS 1998 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The rise of the Hanseatic League was essentially a political event, it being little more than a federation established by German towns among themselves to maintain by political action that status in European trade which they had won as economical changes took place.
		The League owed much of its riches and power to herring but as masters of the Belt and the Sound the Danes were able, if they chose to, greatly to harass Hanseatic traders and fishermen.
		The League was able to dictate the peace talks, its demands, for example the claim of receiving two-thirds of the revenue in Scania for 15 years, were all granted.
	www.the-orb.net /wales/mtib/mti13d.htm (669 words)

	Hanseatic League
		At its height in the late 14th century the Hanseatic League included over 160 cities and towns, among them Lübeck, Hamburg, Cologne, Breslau, and Kraków.
		The basis of the league's power was its monopoly of the Baltic trade and its relations with Flanders and England.
		The decline of the Hanseatic League from the 15th century was caused by the closing and moving of trade routes and the development of nation states.
	www.tiscali.co.uk /reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0001663.html (223 words)

	The Hanseatic League
		The merchants in the League met on a regular basis at the so-called ‘Hansedays’, which were usually held in Lübeck.
		This had serious consequences for the Hanseatic League, because Antwerp was not a member.
		Toward the end of the 1400s, the golden period of the Hanseatic League was drawing to a close.
	www.hum.uit.no /a/svenonius/lingua/flow/co/texts/hansa.en.html (549 words)

	The Hanseatic League in the Eastern Baltic
		At its peak, the Hanseatic League covered the entire North Sea and Baltic Sea Regions and it stretched hundreds of miles inland along rivers from the Rhine to the Daugava.
		It never fully joined the Hanseatic League, but in 1259, the League established a Kontor, a trading post, which enjoyed most of the Baltic trade for Russian goods for at least a century and eliminated the need for ships to sail the dangerous northern route around Scandinavia.
		The Hanseatic League had "no executive officials of their own" and "no common council," according to one scholar, and the League deliberately evaded classification as a society or corporation, in part to avoid legal action against the League
	depts.washington.edu /baltic/papers/hansa.html (2547 words)

	Patrician II for PC video game review and cheats (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		As the master tradesman, you'll be able to shape the growth of a small city in the Hanseatic League, a diverse mercantile economy of cities in Northern Germany.
		Formed around the trade of traditional textiles and foodstuffs, the Hanseatic League was formed sometime around the early 13th century and prospered until the early 17th century.
		The Hanseatic League makes an interesting backdrop for this game, but something may ultimately be left to be desired when you realize that the start of the game is just like the middle is just like the end.
	www.gamezilla.com /reviews/p/patrician2.asp (1185 words)

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