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The Dutch East India Company, VOC, was founded in 1602 by the amalgamation, under government pressure, of various overseas trade companies. It was a decentralized company with branches in six important cities in the Netherlands. Each of these branches had its own administration, warehouses and shipyards. The central direction of the company consisted of a board of 17 directors, 8 of whom were appointed by the City of Amsterdam.
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Kist, J.B. (1998). Integrating Archaeological and Historical Records in Dutch East India Company Research. In: Babits, L.E., Van Tilburg, H. (eds) Maritime Archaeology. The Springer Series in Underwater Archaeology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-0084-5_5
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