Levant Co
Locations city-town / local authority / county1974 / region-state / country:
- Aleppo, Syria
- London, Greater London, Greater London, Greater London, England
Sectors:
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Merchanting & trade, international & inland
International trading inc chartered companies activities
Notes:
Chartered company established by English merchants in 1581 and throughout much of its history, to 1754, granted exclusive rights to trade with the Levant / Ottomon Empire. Succeeded the Venice Co and the Turkey Co. Exported British manufactures, colonial goods and raw materials, and imported silk, cotton, spices, currants, etc. Based in London and with Middle East headquarters at Aleppo. By mid 18th century had taken the form of a company of merchants. Had trading posts / factories across the Empire. In declined by 18th century and wound up 1825 [2024]
Publications:
- Account of the Levant Company; with some notices of the benefits conferred upon society by its offices in promoting the cause of humanity, literature, ... by Walsh, Robert
- Aleppo and Devonshire Square. English traders in the Levant in the eighteenth century by Davis, Ralph
- British Shipping in the Mediterranean during the Napoleonic Wars. The untold story of a successful adaptation by Galani, Katerina
- British Society in the 18th Century Levant. The factory communities behind 'the Turkey trade' by Laidlaw, Christine
- British trade and diplomacy in the Eastern Mediterranean. The Levant Company in Thessalonika, 1792-1825 by Vlami, Despina
- British Trade with Turkey and the Decline of the Levant Company, 1790-1825 by Russell, Ina S
- British-Ottoman Relations, 1661-1807. Commerce and diplomatic practice in eighteenth century Istanbul by Talbot, Michael
- Britons in the Ottoman Empire, 1642-1660 by Goffman, Daniel
- Business Community of Seventeenth Century England by Grassby, Richard
- Commerce and Experience in the Seventeenth Century Mediterranean. Market dynamics, commercial culture and naval protection of English trade to Aleppo by Dickie, Trevor
- Companies, Commerce and Politics. The Hudson's Bay, Levant and Russia Companies, 1714-1763 by Wagner, Mike
- Corporate identity and entrepreneurial initiative. The Levant Company in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries by Vlami, Despina
- Early Chartered Companies, AD1296-1858 by Cawston, George, & Augustus H Keane
- Early History of the Levant Company. Its foundation and its history to 1640 by Epstein, Mordecai
- Early Voyages and Travels in the Levant by Bent, J Theodore (ed)
- English Chartered Trading Companies, 1688-1763. Guns, money and lawyers by Wagner, Mike
- English Trade in the Levant, 1693-1753 by Matterson, Clarence
- English traders at Aleppo, 1658-1756 by Ambrose, Gwilym P
- Entrepreneurial forms and processes inside a multiethnic precapitalist environment. Greek and British enterprises in the Levant, 1740s-1820s by Vlami, Despina, & Ikaros Mandouvalos
- Entrepreneurship and relational capital in a Levantine context. Bartholomew Edward Abbott, the 'Father of the Levant Company' in Thessaloniki by Vlami, Despina
- Forgotten Majority. German merchants in London, naturalization and global trade, 1660-1815 by Beerbuhl, Margrit Schulte
- Friends and Rivals in the East. Studies in Anglo Dutch relations in the Levant from the seventeenth to the early twentieth century by Hamilton, Alastair, Alexander Hide & Maurits Van Den Boogert (eds)
- History of the Levant Company by Wood, Alfred C
- History of the Levant Company by Wood, Alfred C
- History of the Levant Company, 1603-1681. A study in commercial history by Roby, W
- Later History of the Levant Co, 1753-1825 by Russell, Ina S
- Merchants and Revolution. Commercial change, political conflict and London's overseas traders, 1550-1653 by Brenner, Robert
- Merchants of Aleppo. The commercial and financial life of an Ottoman Arab city by Masters, Bruce B
- Networks of friendship, networks of kinship. Eighteenth century Levant merchants by Frangakis-Syrett, E
- Pashas, Traders and Travellers in the Islamic World by Mather, James
- Queen Elizabeth and the Levant Company. A diplomatic and literary episode of the establishment of our trade with Turkey by Rosedale, H G
- Select Charters of Trading Companies, AD1530-1707 by Carr, Cecil T (ed)
- Some aspects of English trade with the Levant in the sixteenth century by Willan, Thomas S
- The British in the Levant. Trade and perceptions of the Ottoman Empire in the eighteenth century by Laidlaw, Christine
- The Levant Co, 1592-1605 by Popham, J
- The Levant Company mainly from 1640-1753 by Ambrose, Gwilym P
- Trade, Plunder and Settlement. Maritime enterprise and the genesis of the British Empire, 1480-1630 by Andrews, Kenneth R
- Trading with the Ottomons. The Levant Company in the Middle East by Vlami, Despina
- Women and the Levant Company, 18th and 19th centuries by Vlami, Despina
Groups:
Locations city-town / local authority / county1974 / region-state / country:
- Aleppo, Syria
- London, Greater London, Greater London, Greater London, England
Sectors:
- Merchanting & trade, international & inland International trading inc chartered companies activities
Notes:
Chartered company established by English merchants in 1581 and throughout much of its history, to 1754, granted exclusive rights to trade with the Levant / Ottomon Empire. Succeeded the Venice Co and the Turkey Co. Exported British manufactures, colonial goods and raw materials, and imported silk, cotton, spices, currants, etc. Based in London and with Middle East headquarters at Aleppo. By mid 18th century had taken the form of a company of merchants. Had trading posts / factories across the Empire. In declined by 18th century and wound up 1825 [2024]Publications:
- Account of the Levant Company; with some notices of the benefits conferred upon society by its offices in promoting the cause of humanity, literature, ... by Walsh, Robert
- Aleppo and Devonshire Square. English traders in the Levant in the eighteenth century by Davis, Ralph
- British Shipping in the Mediterranean during the Napoleonic Wars. The untold story of a successful adaptation by Galani, Katerina
- British Society in the 18th Century Levant. The factory communities behind 'the Turkey trade' by Laidlaw, Christine
- British trade and diplomacy in the Eastern Mediterranean. The Levant Company in Thessalonika, 1792-1825 by Vlami, Despina
- British Trade with Turkey and the Decline of the Levant Company, 1790-1825 by Russell, Ina S
- British-Ottoman Relations, 1661-1807. Commerce and diplomatic practice in eighteenth century Istanbul by Talbot, Michael
- Britons in the Ottoman Empire, 1642-1660 by Goffman, Daniel
- Business Community of Seventeenth Century England by Grassby, Richard
- Commerce and Experience in the Seventeenth Century Mediterranean. Market dynamics, commercial culture and naval protection of English trade to Aleppo by Dickie, Trevor
- Companies, Commerce and Politics. The Hudson's Bay, Levant and Russia Companies, 1714-1763 by Wagner, Mike
- Corporate identity and entrepreneurial initiative. The Levant Company in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries by Vlami, Despina
- Early Chartered Companies, AD1296-1858 by Cawston, George, & Augustus H Keane
- Early History of the Levant Company. Its foundation and its history to 1640 by Epstein, Mordecai
- Early Voyages and Travels in the Levant by Bent, J Theodore (ed)
- English Chartered Trading Companies, 1688-1763. Guns, money and lawyers by Wagner, Mike
- English Trade in the Levant, 1693-1753 by Matterson, Clarence
- English traders at Aleppo, 1658-1756 by Ambrose, Gwilym P
- Entrepreneurial forms and processes inside a multiethnic precapitalist environment. Greek and British enterprises in the Levant, 1740s-1820s by Vlami, Despina, & Ikaros Mandouvalos
- Entrepreneurship and relational capital in a Levantine context. Bartholomew Edward Abbott, the 'Father of the Levant Company' in Thessaloniki by Vlami, Despina
- Forgotten Majority. German merchants in London, naturalization and global trade, 1660-1815 by Beerbuhl, Margrit Schulte
- Friends and Rivals in the East. Studies in Anglo Dutch relations in the Levant from the seventeenth to the early twentieth century by Hamilton, Alastair, Alexander Hide & Maurits Van Den Boogert (eds)
- History of the Levant Company by Wood, Alfred C
- History of the Levant Company by Wood, Alfred C
- History of the Levant Company, 1603-1681. A study in commercial history by Roby, W
- Later History of the Levant Co, 1753-1825 by Russell, Ina S
- Merchants and Revolution. Commercial change, political conflict and London's overseas traders, 1550-1653 by Brenner, Robert
- Merchants of Aleppo. The commercial and financial life of an Ottoman Arab city by Masters, Bruce B
- Networks of friendship, networks of kinship. Eighteenth century Levant merchants by Frangakis-Syrett, E
- Pashas, Traders and Travellers in the Islamic World by Mather, James
- Queen Elizabeth and the Levant Company. A diplomatic and literary episode of the establishment of our trade with Turkey by Rosedale, H G
- Select Charters of Trading Companies, AD1530-1707 by Carr, Cecil T (ed)
- Some aspects of English trade with the Levant in the sixteenth century by Willan, Thomas S
- The British in the Levant. Trade and perceptions of the Ottoman Empire in the eighteenth century by Laidlaw, Christine
- The Levant Co, 1592-1605 by Popham, J
- The Levant Company mainly from 1640-1753 by Ambrose, Gwilym P
- Trade, Plunder and Settlement. Maritime enterprise and the genesis of the British Empire, 1480-1630 by Andrews, Kenneth R
- Trading with the Ottomons. The Levant Company in the Middle East by Vlami, Despina
- Women and the Levant Company, 18th and 19th centuries by Vlami, Despina