Hanseatic League

English

Etymology

Hanseatic +‎ league

Proper noun

Hanseatic League

1. (historical) 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.

Synonyms

• Hansa
• Hanse, Hanse association, Hanse league
• Hanses

Related terms

• Hanseatic city
• Hanse town, Hanse city

Translations

former commercial and military alliance

• Danish: Hansaen
• Dutch: Hanze (nl) f
• Estonian: Hansa Liit
• Finnish: hansaliitto (fi), hansa (fi)
• French: Ligue hanséatique f, Hanse (fr) f
• Georgian: ჰანზა (hanza), ჰანზის კავშირი (hanzis ḳavširi)
• German: Hanse (de) f
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• Italian: Lega anseatica f
• Low German:

  German Low German: Hanse

• Persian: هانزا (hânzâ)
• Polish: Hanza f, Liga Hanzeatycka f
• Russian: Га́нза (ru) f (Gánza), Ганзе́йский сою́з m (Ganzéjskij sojúz)
• Swedish: Hansan

See also

• Lufthansa
• Hansestadt