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Hanseatic League


 

The Hanseatic League (German: die Hanse) was an alliance of trading cities that established and maintained a trade monopoly over most of Northern Europe and the Baltic for a time in the later Middle Ages and the Early Modern period (ie between the 13th and 17th century).

Reference

  • P. Dollinger The German Hansa (1970; repr.1999).
  • Braudel, Fernand, The Perspective of the World, vol. III of Civilization and Capitalism 1984
  • E. Gee Nash. The Hansa. 1929 (Reprint. 1995 Edition, Barnes and Noble)