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    The Compagnie van Verre (meanings "long-distance company") was one of the forerunner companies that were later merged (united) into the Dutch East India...
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    voorcompagnieën (or pre-companies) include: Compagnie van Verre (Amsterdam, 1594–1598), Nieuwe Compagnie, Eerste Verenigde Compagnie op Oost-Indië (Amsterdam, 1598–1601)...
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    1600, the Brabantsche Company merged with the Compagnie van Verre to form the Vereenigde Compagnie van Amsterdam. Finally this company and other companies...
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    is among the founders of the Compagnie van Verre, the Amsterdam Exchange Bank and the United East India Company (VOC). Van Os was born in Antwerp to a...
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    times mayor of Amsterdam. He was involved in the Compagnie van Verre, the VOC, and the trial of Johan van Oldenbarnevelt. Reynier Pauw was a member of the...
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    Geschiedenis van de VOC, p. 17-22. Witteveen, M. (2002) Een onderneming van landsbelang. De oprichting van de Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie in 1602 De...
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    several other prosperous merchants in Amsterdam formed a company, Compagnie van Verre, to finance a Dutch trading expedition to the East Indies. Their...
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    The Dutch West India Company or WIC (Dutch: Westindische Compagnie) Dutch pronunciation: [ʋɛstˈɪndisə kɔmpɑˈɲi] was a chartered company of Dutch merchants...
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    Sluzhba Novyn (2 December 2014) Official website Nieuwe Compagnie van Verre (Student Association) Voortgezette Compagnie van Verre (Alumni Association)...
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    was a Dutch merchant, patrician, and one of the founders of the Compagnie van Verre and its successor the Dutch East India Company. Born in Amsterdam...
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    Amsterdam Stock Exchange. The former Stock Exchange building was the Beurs van Berlage. The Amsterdam Bourse, an open-air venue, was created as a commodity...
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    Eastland Company, Levant Company, and East India Company. In 1594, the Compagnie van Verre ("Company of Far Lands") was founded in Amsterdam, with the aim of...
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    along with Osram, Tungsram, Associated Electrical Industries, ELIN [de], Compagnie des Lampes, International General Electric, and the GE Overseas Group...
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  • (December): 825–48. doi:10.2307/2232670. JSTOR 2232670. S2CID 154188130. Van Wijnbergen, Sweder (1984). "The 'Dutch Disease': A Disease After All?". The...
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    predicate. On 7 October 1919, eight Dutch businessmen, including Frits Fentener van Vlissingen, founded KLM as one of the first commercial airline companies...
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    developed in the early 19th century by Dutch chocolate maker Coenraad Johannes van Houten, whose father Casparus was responsible for the development of the...
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    Volumes. Dobbs Ferry, New York: Oceana Publications. pp. Vol. 10: 17–23. Van Zandt, Franklin K. (1976). Boundaries of the United States and the Several...
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    once ashore. The expedition had not been a commercial success. The Compagnie van Verre could hardly cover the costs, but the goal of the expedition was...
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    investments. One of these was the whaling industry in which the Noordsche Compagnie had held a Dutch monopoly in the first half of the century. After its...
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    denomination. Persons depicted on those older banknotes were: ƒ5 – poet Joost van den Vondel (the note was replaced by a ƒ5 coin in 1988 and withdrawn entirely...
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    prefixed Admirael ('admiral'), often combined with the growers' names: Admirael van der Eijck was perhaps the most highly regarded of about fifty so named. Generael...
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    most appropriate place to buy spices. In 1594, they established the Compagnie van Verre (a.k.a long distance company), and on 2 April 1595, four ships left...
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    2009. "Fokker, Anthony Herman Gerard (1890-1939)". Biografisch Woordenboek van Nederland (in Dutch). Vol. 1. The Hague. 1979. Retrieved 15 December 2023...
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  • aircraft Herts, UK: Harleyford Publications, 1961. LCCN 61-10595 Klaauw, Bart van der (March–April 1997). "Fokker's American Years". Air Enthusiast. No. 68...
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  • Stijn Kuipers, Het begin van het moderne Nederlandse poldermodel; De Hoge Raad van Arbeid van 1920 als eerste manifestatie van het Nederlandse tripartiete...
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    The Noordsche Compagnie (English: Northern Company) was a Dutch cartel in the whaling trade, founded by several cities in the Netherlands in 1614 and...
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    Company Noordsche Compagnie Ostend Company Dutch West India Company Compagnie van Verre Compagnie van De Moucheron Veerse Compagnie Spanish Barcelona...
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    van Heemskerk. In 1602, at the insistence of Johan van Oldenbarnevelt, all Dutch trading companies merged into the Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie (VOC)...
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    "Silver VOC - Dutch East Indies Company - Ingot". Van Dillen, II, p. 768-772 Röell, Guus (2017). "Uit verre streken – from distant shores – Luxury goods from...
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  • to the Netherlands from North Rhine-Westphalia and was married to Rebecca van Crefelt. His son Benjamin Philips (1767 – Zaltbommel) built a fortune selling...
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