From 1449–74, an association of market towns and cities along the Baltic coast in Europe known as the Hanseatic League waged an on-again, off-again war with England over maritime trading privileges.

The Hanseatic League was a confederation of merchant guilds and market towns in Northwestern and Central Europe, which came to dominate trade in the region for three hundred years. A digital platform ...

Back in the early 1990s, an ambitious Finnish company called Elcoteq decided to lower its costs by moving production overseas. First it looked to the Far East, as companies did in those days. Then it ...

IN THE LATE Middle Ages the Hanseatic League, a confederation of merchant guilds in northern Europe, dominated maritime trade in the Baltic and North seas. Now finance ministers from the northern ...

Lubeck’s town hall is a still-active city building that houses the Hanseatic Hall. Photo Credit: Nadine Godwin Six picture-perfect gabled warehouses and the 15th-century Holsten Gate are the first ...

The Hanseatic League was a medieval trading network that stretched across Northern Europe. Formed in Northern Germany in the 12th century, it was an economic powerhouse of the age. Over the next five ...

The Hanseatic League was a highly successful trading alliance among northern European cities from the 13th to the 17th centuries. Some German cities continue to maintain an association under that name ...