Hansa

The Hanseatic League, known as Hansa or Hanse in various Germanic languages, was a 13th–17th century alliance of European trading cities. Several names have been derived from it:

Ships and transportation

• Hansa (airship), or Zeppelin LZ13, a German airship
• Hansa (car), a German car brand of the Borgward group
• Hansa (Swedish ship), a Swedish passenger liner, sunk by a Soviet submarine in 1944
• SMS Hansa (1872), a German armored corvette
• SMS Hansa (1898), a German protected cruiser
• German auxiliary cruiser Hansa, a German auxiliary cruiser used in World War II
• Hansa Carrier, a container ship, the recovery of whose lost cargo of uniquely numbered Nike shoes provided research into North Pacific Ocean currents
• Hansa, a schooner of the second German North Polar Expedition
• HFB-320 Hansa Jet, a German business jet

Organizations

• Hansa Language Centre, a language school in Toronto, Canada
• Hansa (shopping centre), in Turku, Finland
• Hansa Brewery, a Norwegian brewery merged to form Hansa Borg Bryggerier
• Hansa Records, a record label based in Germany
• Hansa Tonstudio, a recording studio in Berlin, Germany
• Hansa Rostock, a German football (soccer) club
• Hanseatic Parliament, a modern association of business chambers from the Baltic Sea Region
• Hansa-Park, a German attraction park
• Deutsche Luft Hansa and Lufthansa, German airlines
• Lüneburger SK Hansa, a German football (soccer) club

Other uses

• Hansa (film) 2012 Hindi film directed by Manav Kaul
• Hansa Bird, or Hamsa, a swan or goose used as a symbol and decorative element in India
• Hansa Yellow, a yellow pigment used in paints
• 480 Hansa, a minor planet orbiting the sun
• From the video game Metro 2033 and the novel upon which it is based, "Hansa" is the commonly used nickname of "The Commonwealth of the Stations of the Ring Line".
• The Hansa (Saga of Seven Suns), an Earth-based trade organization that governs much of human civilization in Kevin J. Anderson's The Saga of Seven Suns science fiction series