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  1. In many respects the seventeenth-century Dutch Republic inherited the economic successes of the Burgundian and Habsburg Netherlands. For centuries, Flanders and to a lesser extent Brabant had been at the forefront of the medieval European economy.

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  2. The economic history of the Netherlands (1500–1815) covers the Netherlands as the Habsburg Netherlands, through the era of the Dutch Republic, the Batavian Republic and the Kingdom of Holland. After becoming de facto independent from the empire of Philip II of Spain around 1585 the country experienced almost a century of explosive economic ...

  3. 2 days ago · The West India Company, established in 1621, was built upon shakier economic foundations; trade in commodities was less important than the trade in slaves, in which the Dutch were preeminent in the 17th century, and privateering, which operated primarily out of Zeeland ports and preyed upon Spanish (and other) shipping.

  4. The Dutch Golden Age (Dutch: Gouden Eeuw [ˈɣʌudən ˈeːu, ˈɣʌudə ˈʔeːu]) was a period in the history of the Netherlands which roughly lasted from 1588, when the Dutch Republic was established, to 1672, when the Rampjaar occurred.

  5. Dec 20, 2012 · This review article discusses recent publications by David Onnekink, Sophus Reinert, Gijs Rommelse, Jacob Soil, and Arthur Weststeijn from the perspective of the reception of Dutch economic and...

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  7. At the turn of the seventeenth century, the Dutch Republic emerged as Europe's leading economy.15 After the Spanish occupation of Antwerp in 1585 and the subsequent Dutch naval blockade of the river Scheldt and the Flemish coast, commercial hegemony shifted to Holland and Zeeland, with Amsterdam as the single most important market.