Hanseatic League
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The Hanseatic League, commonly called The Hansa, was a medieval commercial and defensive network of merchant guilds and market towns in Central and Northern Europe. Growing from Lübeck and a few other
Northern Europe in the 1400s, showing the extent of the Hanseatic League
Ubena von Bremen, a replica of the Bremen cog
Hanseatic Seal of Elbing (now Elbląg)
The Holstentor of Lübeck, built in 1464, is the only historic gate of the city still standing today.
Novgorod Republic
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The Novgorod Republic, formally known as Lord Novgorod the Great, was a city-state that existed from the 12th to 15th centuries in northwestern Russia, stretching from the Gulf of Finland in the west
Hanseatic League
…general trend was Hanseatic cities' increased legislation of their kontors abroad. Only the Bergen kontor grew more independent in this period. The Novgorod Republic c. 1400. Novgorod created a vast territorial empire and controlled much of the fur trade with Europe. The city was one of the main trading posts of the…
Battle of the Novgorodians with the Suzdalians in 1170, fragment of a 1460 icon
Martha the Mayoress at the Destruction of the Novgorod Veche, painting by Klavdiy Lebedev, 1889
The removal of the veche bell from Novgorod, miniature from the Illustrated Chronicle of Ivan the Terrible, 16th century
A fragment of the icon Praying Novgorodians depicting the Kuzmin boyars, 1467