The Orthodox Hansa Bundesland has remained free from the yoke of Islam with the support of the Scandinavian Union for the last 500 years, gaining and losing territory along the coast of the North and Baltic Seas. As of 1998 the territory held by the OHB was at its farthest extent, stretching from Den Helder in the Netherlands to Danzig on the Baltic, and as far south as Dusseldorf, Kassel, Leipzig and Dresden.