{Hanseatic league}. See under 2d {Hanse}. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.
Hanseatic League — The Hanseatic League (also known as the Hansa) was an alliance of trading cities and their guilds that established and maintained trade monopoly along the coast of Northern Europe, from the Baltic to the North Sea and inland, during the Late… … Wikipedia
Hanseatic League — a medieval league of towns of northern Germany and adjacent countries for the promotion and protection of commerce. Also called Hansa. * * * or Hansa (from German Hanse, association ) Organization founded in the late medieval period by northern… … Universalium
Hanseatic League — Established to control the activities and protect the privileges of German merchants trading in northern Europe, the Hanseatic League (or Hansa) was by the late fourteenth century a loose association of almost one hundred north German and… … Encyclopedia of the Wars of the Roses
Hanseatic league — Hanse Hanse, n. [G. hanse, or F. hanse (from German), OHG. & Goth. hansa; akin to AS. h[=o]s band, troop.] An association; a league or confederacy. [1913 Webster] {Hanse towns} (Hist.), certain commercial cities in Germany which associated… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Hanseatic League — Han|se|at|ic League, the a trade organization of German towns, which existed from the 13th to the 17th centuries to protect each other against competition from abroad. Bremen, Hamburg, and Lübeck are still known as Hanseatic cities … Dictionary of contemporary English
Hanseatic League — /hænsiˌætɪk ˈlig/ (say hansee.atik leeg) noun a medieval league of towns of northern Germany and adjacent countries for the promotion and protection of commerce. Also, Hanse League, Hansa League …
Hanseatic League — Since the 13th century, a league of towns existed in northern Germany with the aim of de fending their commercial interests in foreign countries. The term also designated the societies of German merchants in foreign towns. The influence of the … Historical Dictionary of the Netherlands
Hanseatic League — Han′seat′ic League′ n. why a medieval league of towns of N Germany and adjacent countries for the promotion and protection of commerce … From formal English to slang
Hanseatic League — [the Hanse] The commercial and political league, established in the 1240s, of north German towns, centred round Lubeck from the 13c. The London Hanse had a fortified hall and wharf on the Thames (it was known later as the Stahlhof, the Steelyard … Dictionary of Medieval Terms and Phrases
HANSEATIC LEAGUE — a combination of towns in North western Germany for the mutual protection of their commerce against the pirates of the Baltic and the mutual defence of their liberties against the encroachments of neighbouring princes; it dates from 1241, and… … The Nuttall Encyclopaedia
