An exhibition exploring the lives of merchants in the Hanseatic League shows how the trading network built its vast wealth and made the region wealthy. The Hanseatic League (1350-1860 approx.) was an ...

Rather, a combination of diplomatic cooperation and a balance of power kept order until the Crimean War and the unifications of Germany and Italy disrupted it. A yet older example of such cooperation ...

absorbed it into the USSR after World War II. All the while, trade was taking place: in the Viking era, Estonia was on the route to Istanbul; in 1285 the Hanseatic League established a trading station ...

Even during the Cold War, Bornholm found itself in a unique ... 03:58 BetterHelp Offer 05:01 Temporary Rule by Lübeck & The Hanseatic League 06:11 Bornholm's Role in Danish Succession Battles ...

The Hanseatic League was an association of over 100 cities ... Gdansk lived its most dramatic moments in the 20th century. World War II began right here in 1939, when Hitler invaded.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Hanseatic League or Hansa which dominated North European trade in the medieval period. With a trading network that stretched from Iceland to Novgorod via London ...

I was hosted but opinions expressed are my own. If you’ve already savored the beer, brats, and big cities of Germany, it may ...

A long-time seaport on the Baltic and a member of a merchant’s group of trading cities known as the Hanseatic League ... most notably the War of the Polish Succession in the 1730s, Danzig ...

The gateway to the beaches of the Polish Riviera and once a major seaport for northern Europe’s Hanseatic League merchants ... eviscerated by Second World War bombs still sit alongside restored ...

The city has a fusion of gothic and baroque architecture.Credit: iStock Lubeck ganged up with nearby Hamburg in 1159 to grab a bigger share of the lucrative salt trade, and the Hanseatic League ...

Forming what was called the Hanseatic League, northern German cities like Hamburg and Bremen ... ecology and the man-made marvels that have survived after centuries of war, pollution, and other ...