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Levant Company
Also Known As Turkey Company The Levant Company was formed in 1592 from the merger of the Venice Company (1583) and the Turkey Company (1581); Turkey Company remained a common informal name and its members were called Turkey Merchants.
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The Levant Company was an English chartered trading company formed by the 1592 merger of the earlier Venice Company and Turkey Company, with its initial charter approved by Elizabeth I on 11 September 1592, established to regulate and monopolise English trade with the Ottoman Empire and the wider Levant. It funded England's early diplomatic representation in Constantinople and imported goods including silk, currants and raw cotton in exchange for English cloth, before Parliament dissolved it under the Dissolution of Levant Company Act 1825.
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Organization TypeChartered joint-stock trading company 1 Headquarters IndustryTrade with the Ottoman Empire and the Levant 1 Cross-Tradition Connections
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Many Levant Company merchants and shareholders went on to found the East India Company in 1600.
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being superseded in 1825...Dissolved by the Dissolution of Levant Company Act 1825.
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Elizabeth I of England approved its initial charter on 11 September 1592.
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financed by the Levant Company, sailed from England.
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the Venice Company (1583) and the Turkey Company (1581) merged
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