Wisby

On the same plan were organized the associations of Novgorod in Russia, of Wisby in the island of Gothland, and the so-called Komtoor of Bruges.

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They included the Law of Rhodes of the third century B.C., then were codified over the next 1,800 years in the Ordinances of Triani, the Judgment of Oleron, the Maritime Laws of Wisby, the Maritime Laws of Damme, and the Consolato del Mare.

A Furnace Afloat JOE JACKSON 2003

Wisby secured trading rights in England, and soon afterward in Flanders.

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The four chief kontors (trading stations) were Wisby, Bergen, London, and Bruges.

3. The Hanseatic League 2001

In the later 12th century the German settlement on Gothland (Wisby) became autonomous and established an offshoot at Novgorod (St. Peter's Yard), which became the focus of the important Russian trade.

3. The Hanseatic League 2001

He threatened the Hanseatic monopoly of the herring trade with his seizure of Scandinavia and, in 1361, cut the Russian-Baltic trade route with his capture of Wisby.

3. The Hanseatic League 2001

But in spite of his intimate relation to Hertha Lake, Scandinavia, and Wisby, he was only a simple man and so the lonely young woman could not fail to value her chats with Niemeyer much higher.

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Thus had he come into Andorra in the Pyrenees and Wisby in the Baltic.

Diane of the Green Van Leona Dalrymple

The gruff old captain who guarded the port of Wisby

The Iron Star — and what It saw on Its Journey through the Ages John Preston True

[246] Their naval power continued so great, that they had the glory of framing the nautical code, the laws of which were first written at Wisby, the capital of the isle of Gothland, in the eleventh century.

The Germany and the Agricola of Tacitus Caius Cornelius Tacitus