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Hanseatic League en · PROPN

Etymology

From Hanseatic + league.

Meanings

  1. (historical) The commercial and military alliance of Low German merchant guilds and privileged market towns which dominated trade along the coasts of northern Europe from the mid-12th to mid-17th centuries.
    • Only for a brief two centuries in the Middle Ages did a Baltic community coalesce, under the Hanseatic League of prosperous cities that valued trade over plunder. 1989 May, Priit J. Vesilind, “The Baltic: Arena of Power”, in National Geographic, volume 175, number 5, page 605:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
the Hanseatic League canonical lexicographic

Relateds

Hanse city · Hanse town · Hansestadt · Hanseatic city

Synonyms

Hanse association · Hanse · Hanse league · Hanses · Hansa

Translations (24)

ru Ганзе́йский сою́з (former commercial and military alliance) · ka ჰანზის კავშირი (former commercial and military alliance) · pl Liga Hanzeatycka (former commercial and military alliance) · ru Га́нза (former commercial and military alliance) · pt Liga Hanseática (former commercial and military alliance) · pl Hanza (former commercial and military alliance) · da Hansaen (former commercial and military alliance) · fi hansa (former commercial and military alliance) · nds-de Hanse (former commercial and military alliance) · ka ჰანზა (former commercial and military alliance) · nl Hanze (former commercial and military alliance) · fa هانزا (former commercial and military alliance) · it Lega anseatica (former commercial and military alliance) · sv Hanseförbundet (former commercial and military alliance) · da Hanseforbundet (former commercial and military alliance) · fr Ligue hanséatique (former commercial and military alliance) · fi hansaliitto (former commercial and military alliance) · sv Hansan (former commercial and military alliance) · de Hanse (former commercial and military alliance) · es Liga Hanseática (former commercial and military alliance) · fr Hanse (former commercial and military alliance) · no Hansaen (former commercial and military alliance) · no Hansaforbundet (former commercial and military alliance) · et Hansa Liit (former commercial and military alliance)