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Stories Cities of the Hanseatic League (II) The first time that we wrote about the Hanseatic League was in 2019 when we visited Deventer, Kampen and Hattem. This year, 2021, we took the opportunity to visit two other cities, i.e., Zutphen and Doesburg. All mentioned cities are located along the river IJssel. The IJssel river is a beautiful river and an important distributary of the Rhine River. It leaves the Lower Rhine just southeast of Arnhem and flows northeast ward […]
Stories Cities of the Hanseatic League The Hanseatic League was a commercial and defensive confederation of merchant guilds and market towns in Northwestern and Central Europe. Growing from a few North German towns in the late 1100s, the league came to dominate Baltic maritime trade for three centuries along the coasts of Northern Europe. Hansa territories stretched from the Baltic to the North Sea and inland during the Late Middle Ages, and diminished slowly after 1450. Hanse, later spelled as Hansa, was […]
