Hanseatic League
Meanings
name
- 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.
Word forms
Etymology
From Hanseatic + league.
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