Hanse

Hanse englanniksi

1. A merchant guild, ''particularly'' the Fellowship of London Merchants (the "Old Hanse") given a monopoly on London's foreign trade by the Normans or its successor, the Company of Merchant Adventurers (the "New Hanse"), incorporated in 1497 and chartered under VII of England|Henry VII and I of England|Elizabeth I.

2. The rights and privileges of such guilds, ''particularly'' their trade monopolies.

3. A commercial association of Scottish burghs in the Ages.Smith, William Charles. "Britannica, Ninth Edition/Borough|Borough" in the s:Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition|''Encyclopædia Britannica'', 9th ed., Britannica, Ninth Edition/Volume IV|Vol. IV. Charles Scribner's Sons (New York), 1878, p. 64.

4. The League: a commercial association of German towns in the Ages.

5. (alternative form of), the fees payable to a Hanse or its guildhall.

6. a kind of commercial, and sometimes military, confederation of cities in the later Middle Ages; in particular the League of northern Germany

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7. any similar confederation based first and foremost on commercial interests