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| View of a Port in the Levant (1670, Musé de l'Hotel Sandelin, Saint-Omer, France) by Hendrich van Minderhout shows merchant shipping of the Dutch Empire at its height. By the 1670s Dutch maritime power had consolidated a string of possessions and outposts from North America to Japan, with particularly important territories in the West Indies, South-East Asia, and southern Africa. Dutch trading vessels plied between these and other economically important destinations, and were regular sights in most important ports in the 17th century. Dutch power declined in the 18th century, but the Dutch Empire remained a tremendously important economic asset to the Netherlands until after World War II. | ||||||
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