Institution
Danish East India Company
The Danish East India Company was a trading company chartered by Christian IV in 1616 to trade with Asia. Its first expedition, under Ove Gjedde, obtained Tranquebar on the Coromandel coast from the Nayak of Thanjavur in 1620, where the fort of Dansborg was built. The company struggled and was dissolved in 1729, succeeded by the Asiatic Company in 1732.
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