41. The Hanseatic cities were excepted from the Sound Dues but they had to accept Dutch competition in the Baltic trade. 42. The division was composed primarily of troops from Schleswig-Holstein, the Hanseatic Cities , and the Mecklenburg grand duchies. 43. He was mainly active at the municipal foundry of the Hanseatic city of L�beck and in his later life in Copenhagen. 44. In 1522, after negotiations between Gustav Eriksson's people and L�beck, the Hanseatic city joined the war against Denmark. 45. Prussia was extended on 1 April 1937, for instance, by the incorporation of the Free and Hanseatic City of L�beck. 46. L�beck was the smallest of the Hanseatic cities , and its Hanseatic Cross was awarded approximately 8-10, 000 times. 47. "' Beluga Shipping "'was a German heavy-lift shipping company in the Hanseatic city of Bremen. 48. Most Hanseatic cities have " grachten " to transport, to load and to land goods in and from ships. 49. As well as the present county of Segeberg and the present land of the Hanseatic city of Hamburg north of the Elbe. 50. John fought an Svante Nilsson, and this conflict meant frictions with both the Danish nobility and the Hanseatic cities , especially L�beck.