What, still thriving, Middle Ages commercial center commissioned a statue by Nicholas Monro in 1972?
Bull Ring, Birmingham The Bull Ring is a major commercial area of central Birmingham. It has been an important feature of Birmingham since the Middle Ages, when its market was first held. Two shopping centres have been built in the area; in the 1960s, and then in 2003; the latter is styled as one word, Bullring.
Hanseatic League The Hanseatic League (also known as the Hanse or Hansa; Middle Low German: "Hanse", "Deutsche Hanse", Latin: "Hansa", "Hansa Teutonica" or "Liga Hanseatica ") was a commercial and defensive confederation of merchant guilds and their market towns. Growing from a few North German towns in the late 1100s, the league came to dominate Baltic maritime trade for three centuries along the coast of Northern Europe. It stretched from the Baltic to the North Sea and inland during the Late Middle Ages and declined slowly after 1450.