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Membership Merchants from the following 200 towns shared in Hanseatic privileges. These towns benefitted from league membership for various periods from the fourteenth to sixteenth century, some of them for very short. This list is taken from Dollinger, pp. ix-x. The towns are organized by region with chief towns that ever served as the head of a Hanseatic third or quarter listed immediately after the region: Sweden - Visby Rhine-Meuse - Cologne Towns Dinant Duisberg Düsselforf Emmerich Grieth Neuss Nijmegen Roermond Tiel Venlo Wesel Zaltbommel Ijssel & Zuiderzee Important Towns Involved in Hanseatic Affairs Deventer Kampen Towns Arnhem Doesborg Elburg Harderwijk Hasselt Hattem Ommen Stavoren Zutphen Zwolle North Sea Coast Important Towns Involved in Hanseatic Affairs Bremen Hamburg Towns Buxtehude Groningen Stade Westphalia - Dortmund Important Towns Involved in Hanseatic Affairs Münster Osnabrück Soest Towns Ahlen Allendorf Altena Arnsberg Attendorn Balve Beckum Belecke Bielefeld Blankenstein Bocholt Bochum Bödefeld Borgentreich Borken Brakel Breckersfeld Brilon Coesfeld Dorsten Drolshagen Dülmen Essen Eversberg Freienohl Fürstenau Geseke Grevenstein Hachen Hagen Haltern Hamm Hattingen Herford Hirschberg Hörde Hüsten Iˆburg Iserlohn Kallenhardt Kamen Langenscheid Lemgo Lippstadt Lüdenscheid Lünen Melle Menden Minden Neheim Neuenrade Neustadt Nieheim Oldenzaal Olpe Paderborn Peckelsheim Plettenberg Quakenbrück Ratingen Recklinghausen Rheine Rüthen Schwerte Solingen Sundern Telgte Unna Vörden Vreden Warburg Warendorf Warstein Wattenscheid Werl Werne Westhofen Wetter Wiedenbrück Lower Saxony - Brunswick Important Towns Involved in Hanseatic Affairs Goslar Hildesheim Lüneburg Magdeburg Towns Alfeld Ascherleben Bockenem Einbeck Gardelegen Gronau Halberstadt Hameln Hanover Helmstedt Osterburg Quedlinburg Salzwedel Seehausen Stendal Tangermünde Ulzen Werben Central Germany Towns Duderstadt Erfurt Göttingen Halle Merseburg Mühlhausen Naumburg Nordhausen Northeim Osterode Uslar Brandenburg Towns Berlin Brandenburg Cölln on Spree Frankurt on Oder Havelberg Kyritz Perleberg Pritzwalk Baltic Coast - Lübeck Important Towns Involved in Hanseatic Affairs Rostock Stettin Stralsund Wismar Towns Anklam Belgard Demmin Gollnow Greifenberg Greifswald Kammin Kiel Kolberg Köslin Rügenwalde Schlawe Stargard Stolp Treptow on Rega Wollin Prussia & Poland - Gdansk Important Towns Involved in Hanseatic Affairs Breslau Cracow Königsberg Thorn Towns Braunsberg Elbing Kulm Livonia Important Towns Involved in Hanseatic Affairs Dorpat Reval Riga Towns Fellin Goldingen Kokenhusen Lemsal Pernau Roop Wenden Windau Wolmar Sweden - Visby Important Towns Involved in Hanseatic Affairs Stockholm Towns Kalmar Nyköping (?)

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