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Hanseatic League

Type Object Region Northern Europe Time c. 1250–1669

The Hanseatic League was a commercial-political alliance of German merchant cities in Northern Europe and the Baltic;…

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  1. c. 1300–1310Baltic Sea · Baltic SeaThe league maintained kontore (trading posts) in places such as Visby and Novgorod and coordinated tariff and arbitration rules; in the 1300s, Baltic fur, grain, and salt trade volumes continued to grow.
  2. c. 1305–1310Lübeck · Schleswig-HolsteinHanseatic cities regularly convened the Hanseatic Diet to coordinate fleet escorts, responses to piracy, and diplomatic pressure on royal houses such as Denmark, strengthening its institutional role as a governance body of Northern European trade.

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