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Reyersz & Dirckz, International Merchants in an Expanding City
16 April 2025
In 1485, when Amsterdam was still a young city, a man named Reyer Dircxz lived on Kalverstraat. Together with his uncle Symon, he traded on the Baltic Sea. At the time, Amsterdam was thoroughly Catholic. The Old and New Churches were not yet completed, the waterways were partially unembanked and nea