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Cross channel Atlas

The Hanseatic League (12th-17th centuries)


Pascal Buléon, Louis Shurmer-Smith

 

The port network of the Hanseatic League developed across the North Sea and Baltic between the 12th and 15th centuries; at its height this consisted of more than 200 towns. Whilst the Channel remained on the margins of the League (albeit with several important representatives including the most westerly counting-houses of London and Bruges) it provided the essential trading conduit with the ports of the Atlantic and the Mediterranean.

 

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