Hansa
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The Hanseatic League, known as Hansa or Hanse in various Germanic languages, was a 13th–17th century alliance of European trading cities. Several names have been derived from it:
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[edit] Ships and transportation
- Hansa (airship), or Zeppelin LZ13, a German airship
- Hansa (car), a German car brand of the Borgward group
- Hansa (Swedish ship), a Swedish passenger liner, sunk by a Soviet submarine in 1944
- SMS Hansa (1872), a German armored corvette
- SMS Hansa (1898), a German protected cruiser
- German auxiliary cruiser Hansa, a German auxiliary cruiser used in World War II
- NAL Hansa, Indian all-composite aircraft
- Hansa Carrier, a container ship, the recovery of whose lost cargo of uniquely numbered Nike shoes provided research into North Pacific Ocean currents
- Hansa, a schooner of the second German North Polar Expedition
- HFB-320 Hansa Jet, a German business jet
[edit] Organizations and businesses
- Hansa (shopping centre), in Turku, Finland
- Hansa Brewery, a Norwegian brewery merged to form Hansa Borg Bryggerier
- Hansa Records, a record label based in Germany
- Hansa Tonstudio, a recording studio in Berlin, Germany
- Hansa Rostock, a German football (soccer) club
- Hanseatic Parliament, a modern association of business chambers from the Baltic Sea Region
- Hansa-Park, a German attraction park
- Deutsche Luft Hansa and Lufthansa, German airlines
[edit] Other uses
- Hansa Bird, or Hamsa, a swan or goose used as a symbol and decorative element in India
- Hansa Yellow, a yellow pigment used in paints
- 480 Hansa, a minor planet orbiting the sun
- From the video game Metro 2033, "Hansa" is the commonly used nickname of "The Commonwealth of the Stations of the Ring Line".
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