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The Hanseatic League (German: Deutsche Hanse) was a commercial and defensive confederation of merchant guilds and market towns in Northwestern and Central Europe. Growing from a few North German towns in the late 1100s, the league came to dominate Baltic maritime trade for three centuries along the coasts of Northern Europe. Hanseatic territories stretched from the Baltic to the North Sea and inland during the Late Middle Ages, and diminished slowly after 1450. | |||
The Hanseatic League (German: Deutsche Hanse) was a commercial and defensive confederation of merchant guilds and market towns in Northwestern and Central Europe. Growing from a few North German towns in the late 1100s, the league came to dominate Baltic maritime trade for three centuries along the coasts of Northern Europe. Hanseatic territories stretched from the Baltic to the North Sea and inland during the Late Middle Ages, and diminished slowly after 1450.