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Free City of Hamburg
drawn on the map 1814–1870
A North Sea/Elbe port and a leading Hanseatic city, effectively an imperial free city (its status confirmed 1618). Hamburg grew into Germany's greatest port and a center of overseas trade; it retained self-government as a city-republic and remains a German city-state today.
- Shown on the map
- 1814–1870
- Peak area
- 1k km²
- Region
- Europe
Overview
A North Sea/Elbe port and a leading Hanseatic city, effectively an imperial free city (its status confirmed 1618). Hamburg grew into Germany's greatest port and a center of overseas trade; it retained self-government as a city-republic and remains a German city-state today.
Common questions
- What was Free City of Hamburg?
- A North Sea/Elbe port and a leading Hanseatic city, effectively an imperial free city (its status confirmed 1618). Hamburg grew into Germany's greatest port and a center of overseas trade; it retained self-government as a city-republic and remains a German city-state today.
- When is Free City of Hamburg shown on the map?
- The border data draws Free City of Hamburg 1814–1870. The source samples borders at fixed dates, so a span can begin late or run on past the end.
- How large was Free City of Hamburg?
- At its greatest extent drawn on this map, Free City of Hamburg covered about 1,000 km². That is the largest area the border data gives it across the years it is drawn, not necessarily its greatest extent in history.
Sources
This compendium cites its sources once for the whole document rather than per territory. Its bibliography names the English Wikipedia articles for each territory as the primary basis, with Encyclopædia Britannica, the World History Encyclopedia, German History in Documents and Images, national institutions such as the Swiss Federal Council and the National Museum of Denmark, and the scholarship of Peter H. Wilson and Joachim Whaley on the Holy Roman Empire. The article this entry is anchored on:
- Wikipedia — Hamburg en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamburg
This entry was last updated .
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Text available under CC BY-SA 4.0: reuse it with a credit to The World Through Time and a link to this page. Passages drawing on the Wikipedia articles listed above are also licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 by their contributors.
Border geometry for the map itself comes from Cliopatria v0.12 (Seshat Global History Databank, CC-BY-4.0).
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