Hanseatic League establishes its Kontor at Bruges
1358
German merchants formalized their trading post in the Flemish cloth capital, joining the existing kontors at Novgorod, Bergen, and London. The four factories formed the corners of a commercial empire that moved Baltic grain, English wool, Norwegian cod, and Russian furs across northern Europe without owning a single acre of sovereign territory or maintaining a standing army.
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Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.