Hanseatic League

The Hanseatic League is a commercial and defensive confederation of merchant guilds and their market towns. It dominates Baltic maritime trade along the coast of Northern Europe. Stretching from the Baltic to the North Sea and inland. The League was created to protect the guilds’ economic interests and diplomatic privileges in their affiliated cities and countries, as well as along the trade routes the merchants visit. The Hanseatic cities have their own legal system and furnish their own armies for mutual protection and aid. Despite this, the organization is not a state, nor can it be called a confederation of city-states; only a very small number of the cities within the league enjoy autonomy and liberties comparable to those of a free imperial city.

Hansa Proper

Quarter	City	Territory	Notes
Wendish	Lübeck	Free City of Lübeck	Capital of the Hanseatic League, capital of the Wendish and Pomeranian Circle
Wendish	Hamburg	Free City of Hamburg
Wendish	Lüneburg	Duchy of Brunswick-Lüneburg
Wendish	Wismar	Duchy of Mecklenburg	Joined the 10-year Rostock Peace Treaty he predecessor of the federation of Wendish towns .
Wendish	Rostock	Duchy of Mecklenburg	Joined the 10-year Rostock Peace Treaty he predecessor of the federation of Wendish towns .
Wendish	Stralsund	Principality of Rügen	Rügen was a fief of the Danish crown to 1325. Stralsund joined the 10-year Rostock Peace Treaty in 1283, which was the predecessor of the federation of Wendish towns (1293 onwards). From 1339 to the 17th century, Stralsund was a member of the Vierstädtebund with Greifswald, Demmin and Anklam.
Wendish	Demmin	Duchy of Pomerania	Joined the 10-year Rostock Peace Treaty he predecessor of the federation of Wendish towns .
Wendish	Greifswald	Duchy of Pomerania	Joined the 10-year Rostock Peace Treaty he predecessor of the federation of Wendish towns .
Wendish	Anklam	Duchy of Pomerania	Joined the 10-year Rostock Peace Treaty he predecessor of the federation of Wendish towns .
Wendish	Stettin (Szczecin)	Duchy of Pomerania	Joined the 10-year Rostock Peace Treaty in 1283, which was the predecessor of the federation of Wendish towns (1293 onwards); since the 14th century gradually adopted the role of a chief city for the Pomeranian Hanseatic towns to its east
Wendish	Pasewalk	Duchy of Pomerania
Wendish	Kolberg (Kołobrzeg)	Duchy of Pomerania
Wendish	Rügenwalde (Darłowo)	Duchy of Pomerania
Wendish	Stolp (Słupsk)	Duchy of Pomerania
Baltic	Visby	Kingdom of Sweden	In 1285 at Kalmar, the League agreed with Magnus III, King of Sweden, that Gotland be joined with Sweden.
Baltic	Stockholm	Kingdom of Sweden
Saxon	Brunswick	Duchy of Saxony	Capital of the Saxon, Thuringian and Brandenburg Circle
Saxon	Bremen	Free City of Bremen
Saxon	Magdeburg	Archbishopric of Magdeburg	Capital of the Saxon, Thuringian and Brandenburg Circle
Saxon	Goslar	Imperial City of Goslar	Goslar was a fief of Saxony until 1280.
Saxon	Erfurt	Archbishopric of Mainz
Saxon	Stade	Archbishopric of Bremen
Saxon	Berlin	Margraviate of Brandenburg	Brandenburg was raised to an Electorate in 1356. Elector Frederick II caused all the Brandenburg cities to leave the League in 1442.
Saxon	Frankfurt an der Oder	Margraviate of Brandenburg	Elector Frederick II caused all the Brandenburg cities to leave the League in 1442.
Baltic	Gdańsk – Danzig (Gdańsk)	Teutonic Order	Capital of the Prussian, Livonian and Swedish (or East Baltic) Circle. Danzig had been first a part of the Duchy of Pomerelia, a fief of the Polish Crown, with Polish-Kashubian population, then part of the State of the Teutonic Order from 1308 until 1457.
Baltic	Elbing (Elbląg)	Teutonic Order	Elbing had originally been part of the territory of the Old Prussians, until the 1230s when it became part of the State of the Teutonic Order.
Baltic	Thorn (Toruń)	Teutonic Order	Toruń was part of the State of the Teutonic Order from 1233 until 1466.
Baltic	Kraków	Kingdom of Poland	Kraków the capital of the Kingdom of Poland it’s very loosely associated with Hansa, and pays no membership fees, or sents representatives to League meetings.
Baltic	Breslau, (Wrocław)	Kingdom of Bohemia	Breslau, a part of the Duchy of Breslau and the Kingdom of Bohemia, was only loosely associated with Hansa, and pays no membership fees, or sents representatives to League meetings.
Baltic	Königsberg (Kaliningrad)	Teutonic Order	Königsberg was the capital of the Teutonic Order.
Baltic	Rīga	Terra Mariana (Livonia)
Baltic	Reval (Tallinn)	Terra Mariana (Livonia)	On joining the Hanseatic League, Reval was a Danish fief, but was sold, with the rest of northern Estonia, to the Teutonic Order in 1346.
Baltic	Dorpat (Tartu)	Terra Mariana (Livonia)	The Bishopric of Dorpat gained increasing autonomy within the Terra Mariana.
Westphalian	Cologne	Imperial City of Cologne	Capital of the Rhine-Westphalian and Netherlands Circle.
Westphalian	Dortmund	Imperial City of Dortmund	After Cologne was excluded after the Anglo-Hanseatic War (1470–74), Dortmund was made capital of the Rhine-Westphalian and Netherlands Circle.
Westphalian	Deventer	Bishopric of Utrecht
Westphalian	Kampen	Bishopric of Utrecht
Westphalian	Groningen	Friesland
Westphalian	Münster	Prince-Bishopric of Münster
Westphalian	Osnabrück	Prince-Bishopric of Osnabrück
Westphalian	Soest	Imperial City of Soest	The city was a part of the Electorate of Cologne until acquiring its freedom in 1444–49, after which it aligned with the Duchy of Cleves.

Kontore

Quarter	City	Territory	Notes
Kontor	Novgorod: Peterhof	Novgorod Republic	Novgorod was one of the principal Kontore of the League and the easternmost.
Kontor	Bergen: Bryggen	Kingdom of Norway	Bryggen is one of the principal Kontore of the League.
Kontor	Bruges: Hanzekantoor	County of Flanders	Bruges was one of the principal Kontore of the League until the 15th century, when the seaway to the city silted up; trade from Antwerp benefiting from Bruges’s loss.
Kontor	London: Steelyard	Kingdom of England	The Steelyard was one of the principal Kontore of the League.
Kontor	Antwerp	Duchy of Brabant	Antwerp became a major Kontor of the League, particularly after the seaway to Bruges silted up in the 15th century, leading to its fortunes waning in Antwerp’s favour, despite Antwerp’s refusal to grant special privileges to the League’s merchants. Between 1312 and 1406, Antwerp was a margraviate, independent of Brabant.
Kontor	Bishop’s Lynn (King’s Lynn)	Kingdom of England	The Hanseatic Warehouse was constructed in 1475 as part of the Treaty of Utrecht, allowing the League to establish a trading depot in Lynn for the first time. It is the only surviving League building in England.
Kontor	Ipswich	Kingdom of England
Kontor	Malmö	Kingdom of Denmark	Skåne (Scania) was Danish until ceded to Sweden by the 1658 Treaty of Roskilde, during the Second Northern War.
Kontor	Falsterbo	Kingdom of Denmark	Skåne was Danish until ceded to Sweden by the 1658 Treaty of Roskilde, during the Second Northern War.
Kontor	Kaunas	Grand Duchy of Lithuania	In 1398 traders guild with close ties to Hanseatic league appeared in Kaunas. Treaty with Hanseatic league was signed in 1441. The main office was located in the House of Perkūnas from 1441 till 1532.
Kontor	Pleskau (Pskov)	Pskov Republic	In the 12th and 13th centuries, Pskov adhered to the Novgorod Republic. It was captured by the Teutonic Order in 1241 and liberated by a Lithuanian prince, becoming a de facto sovereign republic by the 14th century.
Kontor	Polotsk	Principality of Polotsk	Polotsk was an autonomous principality of Kievan Rus’ until gaining its independence in 1021. From 1240, it became a vassal of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, being fully integrated into the Grand Duchy in 1307.