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Pieter Both

c. 1568–1615 · 16th century

Pieter Both was the first Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies, appointed by the Dutch East India Company in 1609 and serving from 1610 to 1614. He set up company posts and treaties in the Moluccas and on Java. On his voyage home in 1615 he was shipwrecked and drowned off Mauritius, where a mountain is named after him.

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APA: The Epoch Institute. (2026). Pieter Both. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/pieter-both
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