Archives of the Dutch East India Company
Documentary heritage submitted by Netherlands and recommended for inclusion in the Memory of the World Register in 2003.
The Dutch East India Company (VOC, Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie), founded in 1602 and liquidated in 1795, was the largest and most impressive of the early modern European trading companies operating in Asia. About twenty-five million pages of VOC records have survived in repositories in Jakarta, Colombo, Chennai, Cape Town, and The Hague. The VOC archives make up the most complete and extensive source on early modern world history anywhere with data relevant to the history of hundreds of Asia’s and Africa’s former local political and trade regions.
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- Year of submission: 2003
- Year of inscription: 2003
- Country: Netherlands, India, Indonesia, South Africa and Sri Lanka