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The Hanseatic League ran trade from Lübeck to London

A loose alliance of merchant towns dominated northern European commerce for centuries Beginning in the twelfth century, German merchant towns banded together to protect shared trading privileges, with Lübeck as the usual meeting place. The league maintained fortified trading posts called kontors in Bruges, Bergen, Novgorod and London, and at its height counted around two hundred member towns. Its last general assembly met in 1669. It sits in Mondo's history collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.

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Where does this come from, and can I check it?: A loose alliance of merchant towns dominated northern European commerce for centuries. The figure is taken from Encyclopaedia Britannica, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
Is this really a history fact?: Yes. It sits on the History shelf, one of 2,600 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
What else can I read about it?: The links under the fact point to a quiz, game, puzzle or calculator on the same subject, and the shelf below shows related facts. The wording here is original, and quoted phrases are marked as quotations.