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625 years ago today, in 1399, merchants from the cities Wismar and Rostock were allowed back in the Hanseatic settlements - Kontore - in Bergen (Norway) and Brugge (Flanders). They had been excluded after the rest of the Hansa cities got fed up with having their ships and merchants attacked and plundered by ships setting out from these two cities, which were also Hansa cities.
How did that come about? It's and interesting and pretty typical case of internal Hansa conflict:
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