036 - Titus Gebel: Medieval City-States
Free Cities Podcast
The Hanseatic League and the City of London
If you couldn't buy a bit of land and build something yourself, there was no space. And this problem was only overcome in I think in the 18th century when they were tearing down the city walls to grow. How does city of London fit into this? Because you know, Bishop's Gate or Gate, yeah, they were headed to the gate. The city of London. Exactly, the same. An interesting thing about the city of London is that the Hansead of Gleeek, they even had a warehouse there. So this is also kind of a today we'd say it's a special economic zone for Hanseatic traders. They did trade it with no matter what
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