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Fr. Jonat -- you knew very well that there was an article for Hanseatic League -- why did you create a page called Hansa, when there was no need. I have redirected Hansa to Hanseatic League, rather than your "see hanseatic League" sentence. PLEASE try to LEARN how the software works -- it allows you to create a link with an alternate name -- like [[Hanseatic league|Hansa]] the link directs to the "official" article name, but the link says whatever the second part says. JHK
--- Duh! Thanks, Damian, forgot about nowiki!!JHK
When mentioning the "Hansa" it is, I think, almost always the Hansaeitic League that is ment (just compare number of links to either page, compare page size, compare dab pages). Thus I will direct the link to "Hansa" and put the record label as a "see also" at the bottom. --Fred-Chess July 8, 2005 13:49 (UTC)
Hansa means 'swan' in the Sanskrit language and many related East Indian languages. Given that 'luft' in German means 'air' and add 'hansa' to it, you get lufthansa, the airlines, whose logo is a flying swan. It is also interesting that the swastika symbol is borrowed from India.
There is a German manufacturer of specialty vehicles named Hansa. I don't know if they are related to / descended from the Hansa car brand or a separate company. Their full name is "HANSA Maschinenbau Vertriebs- und Fertigungs GmbH"; they have a web site. 70.185.217.138 02:19, 22 October 2007 (UTC)
