. The Rhine and northern Germany: handbook for travellers. -2--.•,.m^=.;- LI BECK. 59. Route. 311 The Hanseatic League, which derives its name from the old , i. e. association, was a confederation of German towns, especiallyof those in the North, formed for the purpose of protecting their piopertyagainst freebooters, and extending their commercial sphere. It was origi-nated in the 13th cent, by an alliance between Liibeck and Hamburg, andgradually increased till it embraced 85 towns, which wore divided into foursections, the capitals being Liibeck, Danzig, Brunswick, and Colog
. The Rhine and northern Germany: handbook for travellers. -2--.•,.m^=.;- LI BECK. 59. Route. 311 The Hanseatic League, which derives its name from the old , i. e. association, was a confederation of German towns, especiallyof those in the North, formed for the purpose of protecting their piopertyagainst freebooters, and extending their commercial sphere. It was origi-nated in the 13th cent, by an alliance between Liibeck and Hamburg, andgradually increased till it embraced 85 towns, which wore divided into foursections, the capitals being Liibeck, Danzig, Brunswick, and Cologne. Theprincipal foreign settlements of the league were at London, Bruges, Bergen,and Nowgorod. So great was its power that the confederation repeatedlyand successfully waged war with Denmark, Sweden, etc., but its object wasat length defeated by the great revolution occasioned in the commercialworld by the discovery of America and India, as well as by the increasingpower of the states over which it once held supremacy. The league wasfinally dissolved
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