The European chartered companies that traded with India and East Asia from the seventeenth century, including the British, Dutch, Swedish, French, Danish, Portuguese and Ostend companies. A company belongs here when its cited article calls it an East India company or describes its trade with the East Indies. The group brings together the entries filed under the heading East India Companies, so a reader can compare them and move from one to another within the same part of the economic field.
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Swedish East India Company (Wikipedia)
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was a chartered trading company based in Gothenburg, Sweden.
Dutch East India Company (Wikipedia)
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was a chartered trading company and one of the first joint-stock companies in the world.
Ostend Company (Wikipedia)
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was a chartered trading company in the Austrian Netherlands (modern-day Belgium) in the Holy Roman Empire which was established in 1722 to trade with the East and West Indies.
East India Company (Wikipedia)
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The East India Company (EIC) was an English, and later British, joint-stock company that was founded in 1600 and dissolved in 1874.
Compagnie des Indes (Wikipedia)
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Compagnie des Indes (lit. 'Company of the Indies') or India Company, refer to several European chartered companies involved in long-distance trading.
Danish East India Company (Wikipedia)
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The Danish East India Company (Danish: Ostindisk Kompagni) refers to two separate Danish-Norwegian chartered companies.
Portuguese East India Company (Wikipedia)
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The Portuguese East India Company (Portuguese: Companhia do commércio da Índia or Companhia da Índia Oriental) was a short-lived and ill-fated attempt by Philip III of Portugal, to create a chartered company to ensure the security of their interests in India, in the face of the mounting pressure and influence by their rivals; the Dutch East India Company and the English East India Company, following the personal union of the Portuguese and Spanish Crowns.
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