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' ENGLISH TRADERS IN THE LEVANT'

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Some accounts of a romantic venture in overseas trading, by G. P... Ambrose
The Levant Company was formed in the reign of Queen Elizabeth to conduct trade in the Eastern Mediterranean, with Turkey, Greece, and Egypt. From the diaries of these merchant venturers can be reconstructed their daily life in Aleppo. Smyrna, Constantinople and other ports where they often settled down for lengthy periods.

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