Hansa may refer to:
Places
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Hanseatic League
The Hanseatic League (; gml, Hanse, , ; german: label=Modern German, Deutsche Hanse) was a medieval commercial and defensive confederation of merchant guilds and market towns in Central and Northern Europe. Growing from a few North German to ...
, a 13th–17th century alliance of European trading cities
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Hansa (shopping centre)
Hansa ( fi, Hansakortteli, sv, Hansakvarteret) is a shopping centre in the city centre of Turku, in Finland. It is located in the city's VII District, next to the main Market Square. The shopping centre hosts a total of 156 businesses, incl ...
, in Turku, Finland
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Hansa-Park
Hansa-Park is a seasonal amusement park in Sierksdorf, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany off the Baltic Sea. It was opened on May 15, 1977 under the name Hansaland and renamed Hansa-Park in 1987. It currently spans and includes more than 125 attracti ...
, a German attraction park
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480 Hansa
Hansa ( minor planet designation: 480 Hansa), provisional designation , is a stony asteroid and the namesake of the Hansa family located in the central region of the asteroid belt, approximately in diameter. It was discovered on 21 May 1901, by ...
, a main-belt asteroid, a minor planet orbiting the Sun
Transportation
Ships
* ''Hansa'', a schooner, the research ship of the Second
German North Polar Expedition
The German North Polar Expeditions were a short series of mid-19th century German expeditions to the Arctic. The aim was to explore the North Pole region and to brand the newly united, Prussian-led German Empire as a great power. In 1866, German ge ...
* , a container ship, the recovery of whose lost cargo of uniquely numbered Nike shoes provided research into North Pacific Ocean currents
* , a German auxiliary cruiser used in World War II
* , a German Imperial navy ship name
** , a German armored corvette
** , a German protected cruiser
* , several steamships of the name
** , a German transatlantic passenger liner renamed ''Hansa'' in 1935 because Ballin had been Jewish
** , a Swedish passenger liner, sunk by a Soviet submarine in 1944
Others
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Hansa (airship), or Zeppelin LZ13, a German airship
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Hansa (car)
Hansa-Automobil Gesellschaft m.b.H was a German car brand established in 1905, which in 1914 was merged with ''Norddeutsche Automobil und Motoren AG'' (NAMAG) into Hansa-Lloyd-Werke A.G.. From 1929 to 1931 it was taken over by the Borgward group. ...
, a German car brand of the Borgward group
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HFB 320 Hansa Jet
The HFB 320 Hansa Jet is a twin-engine, ten-seat business jet that was designed and produced by German aircraft manufacturer Hamburger Flugzeugbau between 1964 and 1973. The most recognisable and unconventional feature of the aircraft is its f ...
, a German business jet
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Hansa Bai, 15th century Queen of Mewar
Organizations
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Hansa Brewery, a Norwegian brewery merged to form Hansa Borg Bryggerier
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Hansa Records
Hansa Records (also known as Hansa, Hansa Musik Produktion or Hansa International) was a record label founded in the 1960s based in Berlin, Germany.
Profile
The label's most successful act commercially was the German-based band Boney M. with mil ...
, a record label based in Germany
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Hansa Tonstudio
Hansa Tonstudio is a recording studio located in the Kreuzberg district of Berlin, Germany. The studio, famous for its Meistersaal recording hall, is situated approximately 150 metres from the former Berlin Wall, giving rise to its former nickna ...
, a recording studio in Berlin, Germany
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Hansa Rostock
FC Hansa Rostock () is a German association football club based in the city of Rostock, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. The club is also called as "the cog" because of its club crest. They have emerged as one of the most successful clubs from the forme ...
, a German football (soccer) club
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Lufthansa
Deutsche Lufthansa AG (), commonly shortened to Lufthansa, is the flag carrier of Germany. When combined with its subsidiaries, it is the second- largest airline in Europe in terms of passengers carried. Lufthansa is one of the five founding m ...
, a German airline company
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Lüneburger SK Hansa, a German football (soccer) club
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DDG Hansa
DDG Hansa, short for Deutsche Dampfschiffahrts-Gesellschaft Hansa (German Steamship Company Hansa; in modern orthography, Deutsche Dampfschifffahrts-Gesellschaft Hansa) was a major German shipping company specialising in heavy freight and schedul ...
, a former German shipping company
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Hansa (market)
Hansa was an online darknet market which operated on a hidden service of the Tor network.
On July 20, 2017, it was revealed that it had been compromised by law enforcement for several weeks before closing shortly following AlphaBay as a culmin ...
, a former darknet market
*Hansa Chippers, a
woodchipper
A tree chipper or woodchipper is a machine used for reducing wood (generally tree limbs or trunks) into smaller woodchips. They are often portable, being mounted on wheels on frames suitable for towing behind a truck or van. Power is general ...
manufacturer based in New Zealand
Other uses
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''Hansa'' (film), a 2012 Hindi film directed by Manav Kaul
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Hansa Bird, or Hamsa, a swan or goose used as a symbol and decorative element in India
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Hansa Session
''Hansa Session'' is the acoustic and string quartet version of five re-imagined tracks from the '' Love Is Dead'' album by Scottish synth-pop band Chvrches recorded at the Hansa Tonstudio in Berlin.
Talking about the motivation behind this E ...
, a 2018 album by
Scottish synth-pop
Synth-pop (short for synthesizer pop; also called techno-pop; ) is a subgenre of new wave music that first became prominent in the late 1970s and features the synthesizer as the dominant musical instrument. It was prefigured in the 1960s ...
band
Chvrches
Chvrches (stylised CHVRCHΞS and pronounced "Churches") are a Scottish pop band from Glasgow, formed in September 2011. The band consists of Lauren Mayberry, Iain Cook, Martin Doherty and, unofficially since 2018, Jonny Scott. Mostly deriving f ...
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Hansa Yellow
Arylide yellow, also known as Hansa yellow and monoazo yellow, is a family of organic compounds used as pigments. They are primarily used as industrial colorants including plastics, building paints and inks. They are also used in artistic oil pain ...
, a yellow pigment used in paints
*Hansa, an Earth-based trade organization that governs much of human civilization in Kevin J. Anderson's ''
The Saga of Seven Suns
''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things already mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the m ...
'' science fiction series
*Hansa Parekh, a character in the
Khichdi
''Khichdi'' or ''khichri'' (, , , , Odia: ଖେଚୁଡି) is a dish in South Asian cuisine made of rice and lentils (''dal'') with numerous variations. Variations include ''bajra'' and mung ''dal'' ''khichri''. In Indian culture, in ...
franchise
See also
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Khansa (disambiguation) al-Khansa was a 7th-century female Arabic poet.
Khansa(a) may also refer to:
* ''al-Khansaa'' (magazine), a women's online magazines published by al-Qaeda
* al-Khansaa Brigade, an all-women police force of the jihadist Islamic State of Iraq and ...
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Hamsa (disambiguation)
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