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1. (n.) Hanseatic League
a medieval league of towns of N Germany and adjacent countries for the promotion and protection of commerce.
Etymology: (1935–40; after G. H. Hansen (1841–1912), Norwegian physician, discoverer of leprosy-causing bacterium)
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1. (noun) Hanseatic League
a commercial and defensive confederation of free cities in northern Germany and surrounding areas; formed in 1241 and most influential in the 14th century when it included over 100 towns and functioned as an independent political power; the last official assembly was held in 1669
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1. 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 flourished for several centuries, to the extension of their commerce far and wide; numbered at one time 64 towns, and possessed fleets and armies, an exchequer, and a government of their own; the League dwindled down during the Thirty Years' War to six cities, and finally to three, Hamburg, Lübeck, and Bremen.
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