| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - At cities such as Bruges and London, Hanseatic merchants established foreign trading centers called ???factories.??? Merchants from the towns of the Hanseatic League used various forms of pressure to dominate the northern European markets, often successfully in the port city of Bergen amidst the scenic fjords of western Norway, but less so after the sixteenth century as the Hansa grew weaker and o
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