League of towns
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A league of towns is an alliance of two or more, usually geographically close, towns and/or cities for the protection of their political and/or economic interests.
The term predominantly refers to medieval
leagues of towns (since the 13th century), which usually became important economic, political and even religious factors in their respective countries, but it is also used for the ancient world and for modern town alliances.
Examples:
The term predominantly refers to medieval
Middle Ages
The Middle Ages is a periodization of European history from the 5th century to the 15th century. The Middle Ages follows the fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476 and precedes the Early Modern Era. It is the middle period of a three-period division of Western history: Classic, Medieval and Modern...
leagues of towns (since the 13th century), which usually became important economic, political and even religious factors in their respective countries, but it is also used for the ancient world and for modern town alliances.
Examples:
Middle Ages
- League of six towns of Upper LusatiaLeague of six towns of Upper LusatiaThe Lusatian League was a historical alliance of six towns in the Bohemian, later Saxon region of Upper Lusatia, that existed from 1346 until 1815. The member towns were Bautzen , Görlitz , Kamenz , Lauban, Löbau and Zittau...
- Lombard LeagueLombard LeagueThe Lombard League was an alliance formed around 1167, which at its apex included most of the cities of northern Italy , including, among others, Crema, Cremona, Mantua, Piacenza, Bergamo, Brescia, Milan, Genoa, Bologna, Padua, Modena, Reggio Emilia, Treviso, Venice, Vercelli, Vicenza, Verona,...
- Rhenish League of Towns
- Swabian League of TownsSwabian LeagueThe Swabian League was an association of Imperial States - cities, prelates, principalities and knights - principally in the territory of the Early medieval stem duchy of Swabia, established in 1488 at the behest of Emperor Frederick III of Habsburg and supported as well by Bertold von...
- Hanseatic LeagueHanseatic LeagueThe Hanseatic League was an economic alliance of trading cities and their merchant guilds that dominated trade along the coast of Northern Europe...
- PentapolitanaPentapolitanaPentapolitana was a league of towns of the five most important Hungarian royal free towns of present-day eastern Slovakia in the Middle Ages.The first meeting of the representatives of...
- DécapoleDécapoleThe Décapole was an alliance formed in 1354 by ten Imperial cities of the Holy Roman Empire in the Alsace region to maintain their rights, it was disbanded in 1679....
- Prussian ConfederationPrussian ConfederationThe Prussian Confederation was an organization formed in 1440 by a group of 53 gentry and clergy and 19 cities in Prussia to oppose the monastic state of the Teutonic Knights. It was based on the basis of an earlier similar organization, the Lizard Union...