What alliance brought together many cities in northern Germany and the Baltic for the purposes of trade and defense?

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The Hanseatic League was an alliance of merchant guilds and their market towns that dominated trade along the coast of Northern Europe. It stretched from the Baltic to the North Sea and inland during the Late Middle Ages and early modern period (c. 13th–17th centuries).

What Alliance Brought Together Many Cities in Northern Germany and the Baltic