hanseatic league

Noun hanseatic league has 1 sense

• hanseatic league(n = noun.group) - a commercial and defensive confederation of free cities in northern Germany and surrounding areas; formed in 1241 and most influential in the 14th century when it included over 100 towns and functioned as an independent political power; the last official assembly was held in 1669;
is a kind of confederacy, confederation, federation