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Trading centre for grain

Traders from all over Europe came to Amsterdam to purchase grain, which became a grain entrepôt . To accommodate this trade, in 1616 Amsterdam built the Korenbeurs, the grain exchange on Damrak designed by Hendrick de Keyser.

Korendrager, 1716 Amsterdam Museum, inv.nr. BA 2381

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