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Pieter van den Broecke (25 February 1585, Antwerp – 1 December 1640, Strait of Malacca) was a Dutch cloth merchant in the service of the Dutch East India Company (VOC), and one of the first Dutchmen to taste coffee.[1] He also went to Angola three times. He was one of the first Europeans to describe societies in West and Central Africa and to comment in detail trade strategies along the African coast.[2]
- ^ "De VOCsite : handelsposten; Mocca". Archived from the original on 22 February 2013. Retrieved 17 July 2008.
- ^ "La Fleur, J.D., ed. Pieter Van Den Broecke's Journal of Voyages to Cape Verde, Guinea and Angola, 1605-1612". Retrieved 17 July 2008.