Dutch East India Company

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Founded in 1602, the United East India Company or Vereenigde Oost Indische Compagnie was a commercial organisation comprising several trading agencies, which was established to protect the Dutch trade in Asia. It dealt primarily in textiles and eventually established nearly monopolistic control in the spice trade with East Asia. The Company established colonies and trading posts in Indonesia, Sri Lanka and parts of India. It was dissolved in 1799.

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