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Hanseatic League Trade

Type Event Region Europe Time 1490–1500

In the 1490s the Hanseatic League still controlled Baltic–North Sea trade in grain, fish, furs, and cloth, with Lübeck, Hamburg, and Danzig at its co…

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  1. 1490–1499Danzig (Gdańsk) · PolandIn the 1490s, the Polish–Lithuanian Kingdom exported large quantities of rye and wheat to Northern and Western Europe via Danzig; Hanseatic merchants controlled loading, warehousing, and credit, sustaining the system of supplying grain-deficient regions from the "Baltic granary."
  2. 1495Skalmörde · ScandinaviaIn 1495 Hanseatic cities convened at Skalmörde to coordinate shipping taxes and fishing rights with Denmark and Sweden, seeking to preserve the League's passage and trade privileges in the Øresund and Baltic.
  3. 1492–1500London Steelyard · EnglandHanseatic merchants maintained warehousing and wholesale networks at the London Steelyard, the Bruges port (Bruges), and Bergen, importing Flemish cloth and Norwegian dried cod, forming a complementary commodity cycle along the North Sea coast.

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