Trịnh Tráng let the Dutch open a trading house at Phố Hiến; Japanese, Chinese, Siamese and Portuguese merchants followed, making it the second town of the North after the capital, as the saying went.
Trade
Dutch factory at Phố Hiến
- 1637
- Southeast Asia
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