Adjective
Pertaining to the Hanse towns, or to their confederacy.
Source: Webster's dictionaryArchitecture The cities are characterised by a certain " Hanseatic " style also found in other parts of northern Germany (e.g. Lübeck ) as well as in countries bordering the Baltic Sea like Estonia (e.g. Tallinn ) or Latvia (e.g. Riga ). Source: Internet
Around the same time, the Hanseatic League, based around northern ports, lost its importance as new trade routes to Asia and the Americas were established, and the most powerful German states of that period were located in Middle and Southern Germany. Source: Internet
Bruges was the pioneer. had a strategic location at the crossroads of the northern Hanseatic League trade and the southern trade routes. Source: Internet
Assemblies of the Hanseatic towns met irregularly in Lübeck for a Hansetag (Hanseatic Diet ), from 1356 onwards, but many towns chose not to attend nor to send representatives and decisions were not binding on individual cities. Source: Internet
Between 1306 and 1481, Erfurt was allied with the two other major Thuringian cities ( Mühlhausen and Nordhausen ) in the Thuringian City Alliance and the three cities joined the Hanseatic League together in 1430. Source: Internet
Bruges became a great commercial center after the Hanseatic League set up business there and the Italian banking houses followed suit. Source: Internet