Compagnie van Verre
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The Compagnie van Verre was one of the forerunner companies that were later merged into the Dutch East India Company.
Itinerario, voyage ofte schipvaert, naer Oost ofte Portugaels Indien inhoudende een corte beschryvinghe der selver landen ende zee-custen met daarin ook de Beschryvinghe van de gantsche custe van Guinea en het Reys-gheschrift vande navigatien der Portugaloysers in Orienten.
Dutch East India Company
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The United East India Company, commonly known as the Dutch East India Company, was a chartered trading company and one of the first joint-stock companies in the world. Established on 20 March 1602 by
Compagnie van Verre
…The Compagnie van Verre (lit. 'long-distance company') was one of the forerunner companies that were later merged (united) into the Dutch East India Company. It was set up in 1594 by nine citizens of Amsterdam, to break Portugal's monopoly on the pepper trade. To do this, it sent an expedition of three…
The United East India Company was the brainchild of Johan van Oldenbarnevelt, the leading statesman of the Dutch Republic.
The stock exchange of Hendrick de Keyser
![A 17th-century plaque to the [Dutch] United East India Company, the VOC, in Hoorn](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/95/17th_century_plaque_to_Dutch_East_India_Company_%28VOC%29%2C_Hoorn.jpg/500px-17th_century_plaque_to_Dutch_East_India_Company_%28VOC%29%2C_Hoorn.jpg)
A 17th-century plaque to the [Dutch] United East India Company, the VOC, in Hoorn
The return of the second Asia expedition of Jacob van Neck in 1599 by Cornelis Vroom