Venice Company, the Glossary
The Venice Company was an English chartered trading company established in 1583 to monopolise on trade in and around the Venetian colonies in the Mediterranean Sea.[1]
Table of Contents
13 relations: Alderman, Chartered company, Edward Holmeden, Elizabeth I, England, Levant Company, Mediterranean Sea, Morocco, Ottoman Empire, Paul Bayning, 1st Viscount Bayning, Republic of Venice, Spain, Stato da Màr.
- 1583 establishments in England
- 1592 disestablishments
- 16th-century mergers and acquisitions
- Levant Company
- Trading companies established in the 16th century
- Trading companies of England
Alderman
An alderman is a member of a municipal assembly or council in many jurisdictions founded upon English law with similar officials existing in the Netherlands (wethouder) and Belgium (schepen).
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Chartered company
A chartered company is an association with investors or shareholders that is incorporated and granted rights (often exclusive rights) by royal charter (or similar instrument of government) for the purpose of trade, exploration, or colonization, or a combination of these. Venice Company and chartered company are chartered companies.
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Edward Holmeden
Sir Edward Holmeden or Holmden (1544–1616) was an Alderman and Sheriff of London.
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Elizabeth I
Elizabeth I (7 September 153324 March 1603) was Queen of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death in 1603.
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England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.
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Levant Company
The Levant Company was an English chartered company formed in 1592. Venice Company and Levant Company are chartered companies, Trading companies established in the 16th century and Trading companies of England.
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Mediterranean Sea
The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean Basin and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Southern Europe and Anatolia, on the south by North Africa, on the east by the Levant in West Asia, and on the west almost by the Morocco–Spain border.
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Morocco
Morocco, officially the Kingdom of Morocco, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa.
See Venice Company and Morocco
Ottoman Empire
The Ottoman Empire, historically and colloquially known as the Turkish Empire, was an imperial realm centered in Anatolia that controlled much of Southeast Europe, West Asia, and North Africa from the 14th to early 20th centuries; it also controlled parts of southeastern Central Europe, between the early 16th and early 18th centuries.
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Paul Bayning, 1st Viscount Bayning
Paul Bayning, 1st Viscount Bayning of Sudbury in Suffolk (1588 – 29 July 1629), previously known as Sir Paul Bayning and as Baron Bayning, was an English landed gentleman, created a peer in 1628.
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Republic of Venice
The Republic of Venice, traditionally known as La Serenissima, was a sovereign state and maritime republic with its capital in Venice.
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Spain
Spain, formally the Kingdom of Spain, is a country located in Southwestern Europe, with parts of its territory in the Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea and Africa.
Stato da Màr
The Stato da Màr or Domini da Mar was the Republic of Venice's maritime and overseas possessions from around 1000 to 1797, including at various times parts of what are now Istria, Dalmatia, Montenegro, Albania, Greece and notably the Ionian Islands, Peloponnese, Crete, Cyclades, Euboea, as well as Cyprus.
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See also
1583 establishments in England
- Breamore House
- Holdenby House
- Queen Elizabeth's Men
- St Bees School
- The Grapes, Limehouse
- Venice Company
1592 disestablishments
- Venice Company
16th-century mergers and acquisitions
- Brabantsche Compagnie
- Casa da Guiné
- Compagnie van Verre
- Venice Company
Levant Company
- Andrew Riccard
- Bates's Case
- Edward Barton (diplomat)
- Edward Osborne
- Francis Levett
- George Barne (died 1593)
- Henry Maundrell
- Isaac Penington (Lord Mayor)
- John Barker (diplomat)
- John Bull (businessman)
- John Covel
- John Jolliffe (merchant)
- Levant Company
- Lewes Roberts
- List of chaplains of the Levant Company
- Matthew Cradock
- Thomas Shirley
- Thomas Thornton (merchant)
- Venice Company
- William Harborne
- William Hedges (colonial administrator)
- William Hussey (English diplomat)
- William Vincent (MP)
Trading companies established in the 16th century
- Barbary Company
- Bastion de France
- Brabantsche Compagnie
- Levant Company
- Muscovy Company
- Oude Compagnie
- Spanish Company
- Venice Company
Trading companies of England
- Atherton Trading Company
- Barbary Company
- Company of Merchant Adventurers of London
- East India Company
- Guinea Company (London)
- Hudson's Bay Company
- King George's Sound Company
- Levant Company
- Merchants of the Staple
- Meyer & Berenberg
- Muscovy Company
- Royal African Company
- Somers Isles Company
- Spanish Company
- Venice Company
- Virginia Company
- Worshipful Company of Loriners