What kind of urban community do you know?

The most widespread and numerous associations were guilds and workshops. In the guild, mainly merchants united. The tasks of the guilds were mutual assistance and protection of interests, as well as the expansion of the trade market. The workshops included artisans. In general, the workshops carried the same functions as the guilds, that is, mutual assistance and defense of interests and rights. Sometimes people united in foreign cities on the basis of nationality (for example, the unification of Germans in Novgorod). People could also unite according to the principle of unity of political views.