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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 9587286, member: 2844&quot;]Very likely, Talinn was one of the Hansa towns, it was called Reval at the time.</p><p>Several cogs or kogges have been unearthed in the Netherlands as well, and one reconstruction was made, the &#039;Kamper kogge&#039;, the pride of the town of Kampen.</p><p>Kampen and the other Dutch Hansa towns are worth a visit anyway, for those of you brave enough to venture outside Holland.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wink.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=";)" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>This is the Kamper kogge:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]463512[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>And below is a map of the Hansa towns and trade routes, so you get an idea what northern Europe got up to in the Middle Ages.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wink.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=";)" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&quot;Hanze&quot; is Dutch for Hansa.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]463513[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Not all Dutch Hansa towns are on the map, they couldn&#039;t all fit in the cluster of dots (our country is too small<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/biggrin.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":D" unselectable="on" />). The Netherlands is the bit of land across the Channel from London.</p><p>London and Bergen (Norway) are included, but that is where the Hansa had trading agencies, those are not actual Hansa towns. The Hansa trading agency near London was called Stalhof (Steelyard), which is why that name is next to London on the map.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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