Hanseatic League : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Hanseatic League	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for Hanseatic League
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Hanseatic League n 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
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Hanseatic \Han`se*at"ic\, a. Pertaining to the Hanse towns, or to their confederacy. {Hanseatic league}. See under 2d {Hanse}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Hanse \Hanse\, n. [G. hanse, or F. hanse (from German), OHG. & Goth. hansa; akin to AS. h[?]s band, troop.] An association; a league or confederacy. {Hanse towns} (Hist.), certain commercial cities in Germany which associated themselves for the protection and enlarging of their commerce. The confederacy, called also {Hansa} and {Hanseatic league}, held its first diet in 1260, and was maintained for nearly four hundred years. At one time the league comprised eighty-five cities. Its remnants, L[81]beck, Hamburg, and Bremen, are {free cities}, and are still frequently called Hanse towns.