The Dutch establish a trading post at Archangel on the White Sea

Historical Context Note

Litencyc Editors (Independent Scholar - Europe)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 2.2.1.00: Slavic and Russian Writing and Culture: Old, Medieval and Tsarist, 700-1917.
Vol. editors: Neil Cornwell (University of Bristol), Roman Koropeckyj (University of California, Los Angeles), Andrei Rogatchevski (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway)

Domains

Colonialism and colonisation
Trade and exchange of goods

Dates

Date of occurrence 1584

Places

Russia (Location)
Netherlands (Involved)

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Archangel, on the White Sea in the far north of western Russia, becomes the site of a Dutch trading post. Tsar Ivan IV had already granted trading privileges to the English there, but in the following century it was the Dutch who were to be dominant in the area.

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Citation: Editors, Litencyc. "The Dutch establish a trading post at Archangel on the White Sea". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 01 February 2011 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/stopics.php?rec=true&UID=15308, accessed 26 April 2024.]

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