merchant dynasty
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concept
A merchant dynasty is a powerful family or lineage whose wealth, influence, and social status are built and sustained over generations through large-scale trade and commercial enterprises.
Observed surface forms (7)
- shipping dynasty ×2
- Renaissance banking house ×1
- Renaissance merchant dynasty ×1
- art-dealing dynasty ×1
- fur-trading dynasty ×1
- merchant patriciate ×1
- trading dynasty ×1
Instances (13)
- Galway merchant families via concept surface "merchant patriciate"
- Chouteau family via concept surface "fur-trading dynasty"
- Manigault family
- Buddenbrook family
- Stroganov family
- Greg family
- Benci family of Florence via concept surface "Renaissance merchant dynasty"
- Fugger family via concept surface "Renaissance banking house"
- Schøller family of Trondheim merchants via concept surface "trading dynasty"
- Livanos family via concept surface "shipping dynasty"
- Durand-Ruel family via concept surface "art-dealing dynasty"
- Haji-Ioannou family via concept surface "shipping dynasty"
- Mitsui family