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Pieter van den Broecke

Dutch merchant
Pieter van den Broecke was a Dutch cloth merchant in the service of the Dutch East India Company, and one of the first Dutchmen to taste coffee. He also went to Angola three times. He was one of the first Europeans to describe societies in West... Wikipedia
Born: February 25, 1585, Antwerp, Belgium
Died: December 1, 1640 (age 55 years), Malacca Strait
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