(Settlement) Hanover City

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• Country – Principality of Calenberg
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• Other Notable residents – Jasper Hanebuth
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Three centuries ago Hanover was founded on the east bank of the River Leine as a small village of ferrymen and fishermen. However that became a comparatively large town receiving town privileges, due to its position at a natural crossroads. As overland travel was relatively difficult, its position on the upper navigable reaches of the river helped it to grow by increasing trade. It was connected to the Hanseatic League city of Bremen by the Leine, and was situated near the southern edge of the wide North German Plain and north-west of the Harz mountains, so that east-west traffic such as mule trains passed through it. Hanover was thus a gateway to the Rhine, Ruhr and Saar river valleys, their industrial areas which grew up to the southwest and the plains regions to the east and north, for overland traffic skirting the Harz between the Low Countries and Saxonyor Thuringia.

Recently the the main churches were built, as well as a city wall with three city gates. The beginning of industrialization has led to trade in iron and silver from the northern Harz Mountains, which has increased the city’s importance.