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Han•sa

(ˈhæn sə, -zə)

n.
1. a guild of merchants in a medieval town.
[1300–50; < Medieval Latin; replacing Middle English hans, hanze < Middle Low German hanse, c. Old English hōs, Old High German, Gothic hansa company]
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The new concert and congress hall is on a long thin island that curves round the Hansa kernel to the west between the inner harbour and the wide Renaissance moat which separates the old city from its nineteenth-century suburbs and the railways.
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