Trading Companies Foundation in the City of Zamora in the Sixteenth Century (1575-1600)

Abstract

This paper tries to reconstitute the conditions for the foundation of the trading companies in the city of Zamora (northwest of Spain) in the Sixteenth Century. It studies the socio-professional category of the associates, their functions, their contributions, the duration of the companies and their geographical areas of action. It’ll also delineate the distinctive features or possible parallelisms with others Spanish societies and it’ll try to verify some affirmations about the commercial activity of Zamora during this period. This article supposes a contribution to a subject scarcely studied for the interior places of the Iberian Peninsula in the Sixteenth Century.

Keywords

• sociedades comerciales
• compañías
• mercaderes
• pescado
• zamora
• españa
• siglo xvi