Hansa Explained

Hansa may refer to:

Places

• Hanseatic League, a 13th–17th century alliance of European trading cities
• Hansa (shopping centre), in Turku, Finland
• Hansa-Park, a German attraction park
• 480 Hansa, 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
• , 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

• Hansa (airship), or Zeppelin LZ13, a German airship
• Hansa (car), a German car brand of the Borgward group
• HFB 320 Hansa Jet, a German business jet
• Hansa Bai, 15th century Queen of Mewar

Organizations

• 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
• Lufthansa, a German airline company
• Lüneburger SK Hansa, a German football (soccer) club
• DDG Hansa, a former German shipping company
• Hansa (market), a former darknet market
• Hansa Chippers, a woodchipper manufacturer based in New Zealand

Other uses

• Hansa, a synonym for Metrocles (skipper), a genus of butterflies
• Hansa (film), a 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 Session, a 2018 album by Scottish synth-pop band Chvrches.
• Hansa Yellow, 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 science fiction series
• Hansa Parekh, a character in the Khichdi franchise

See also

• Khansa (disambiguation)
• Hamsa (disambiguation)