Institution
Hanseatic League
The Hanseatic League was a commercial and defensive association of merchant guilds and towns in northern Europe, active from the medieval period into the early modern era. Led by cities such as Lübeck, Hamburg and Bremen, it dominated trade in the Baltic and North Sea. Its cities developed economies largely independent of the Holy Roman Empire's central authority.
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