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Hansa

Hanse \Hanse\, n. [G. hanse, or F. hanse (from German), OHG. & Goth. hansa; akin to AS. h[=o]s band, troop.] An association; a league or confederacy.

Hanse towns (Hist.), certain commercial cities in Germany which associated themselves for the protection and enlarging of their commerce. The confederacy, called also Hansa and Hanseatic league, held its first diet in 1260, and was maintained for nearly four hundred years. At one time the league comprised eighty-five cities. Its remnants, L["u]beck, Hamburg, and Bremen, are free cities, and are still frequently called Hanse towns.

Hansa

Hansa \Han"sa\ (h[a^]n"s[.a]), n. See 2d Hanse.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Hansa

also Hanse, medieval European merchants' guild; see Hanseatic. A member was a Hansard (early 13c. as a surname).

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Hansa

Hansa may refer to:

  • Hanseatic League, a 13th–17th century alliance of European trading cities
Hansa (company)

Hansa-Automobil Gesellschaft m.b.H was a German car brand established in 1905, which in 1914 was merged with Norddeutsche Automobil und Motoren AG (NAMAG) into Hansa-Lloyd-Werke A.G.. From 1929 to 1931 it was taken over by the Borgward group. Hansa was based in the Bremen suburb of Hastedt.

Hansa (skipper)

Hansa is a genus of skippers in the family Hesperiidae.

Hansa (film)

Hansa is a 2012 Hindi feature film directed by Manav Kaul. The directorial debut film is set in a village in Uttarakhand, where Hansa and his elder sister Chiku look for their missing father. Upon its release the film receive critical acclaim.

Usage examples of "hansa".

When the sharp outlines of the red cliffs of Heligoland appeared, the German cruiser Seeadler came from the island to meet the squadron and reported that the coast ironclads Aegir and Odin, the cruisers Hansa, Vineta, Freya, and Hertha, together with the torpedo-boats, had set out from Wilhelmshaven during the night and had seen nothing of the enemy.

Hansa cyberneticists, and I ran all the diagnostics I could get my hands on, but to no effect.

Currently, there were sixty-nine signatories to the Hansa Charter and a handful of satellite colonies and uncataloged camps.

Falke, Die Hansa als Deutsche Seeund Handelsmacht, Berlin, 1863, pp. 31, 55.

She was from the Hansa city of Danzig: one-masted like a cog but longer, beamier, of the new sort that were known as hulks.

The locally brewed Hansa Pilsner was every bit as good as the original of the Munich beerhalls, with a clear golden colour and thick creamy head.

Such Labour Congresses, partly international like the Hansa itself, are known to have been held by bakers, founders, smiths, tanners, sword-makers and cask-makers.

Miller drove back toward Altona station, picked up the main road back into the city center, and twenty minutes later swung the Jaguar into the underground garage off the Hansa Square, two hundred yards from the house where he had his penthouse apartment.

That one faced away in obvious repugnance, eliciting the loud guffaws of the Hansa seamen.

The press of people around Hansa and me was too thick to get through, and so I had to wait until a waiter went by with a tray of touch and a single glass on it.