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Trading posts of the Hanseatic League
- Newcastle upon TyneThe year 120 AD marked the founding of Pons Aelius, a Roman fort and bridge across the River Tyne. Emperor Hadrian gave this settlement his family name…
- ColchesterIn the year 43, Roman legions established a fortress on a gravel hill that would become Camulodunum. This site marked Britain's first major city and its…
- YorkIn AD 71, the Ninth Legion conquered the Brigantes and constructed a wooden military fortress on flat ground above the River Ouse.
- AntwerpFlowing through Antwerp is the river Scheldt. This waterway links the city to the North Sea via the Westerschelde estuary.
- BrugesThe earliest written record of the city's name appears in documents from between 840 and 875 AD. Scribes wrote the location as Bruocs or Bruggas during that…
- PolotskThe Primary Chronicle recorded Polotsk in the year 862 alongside Murom and Belozersk. Archaeologists from the Institute of History of the National Academy of…
- Novgorod RepublicIn 1136, the Novgorodians marched to Yaroslav's Court and dismissed their prince Vsevolod Mstislavich. They did not kill him or exile him permanently.
- Staraya LadogaDendrochronology suggests that Ladoga was founded in 753. Until 950, it stood as one of the most important trading ports of Eastern Europe.