Fugger family
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fugger-family-180-12511509
title:
Fugger family
text:
The House of Fugger is a German family that was historically a prominent group of European bankers, members of the fifteenth- and sixteenth-century mercantile patriciate of Augsburg, international mercantile bankers, and venture capitalists. Alongside the Welser family, the Fugger family controlled much of the European economy in the sixteenth century and accumulated enormous wealth. The Fuggers held a near monopoly on the European copper market. This banking family replaced the Medici family wh
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Augsburg based family of European bankers
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fugger_family
date created:
2002-11-20T11:24:23Z
date modified:
2024-09-05T15:11:37Z
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13
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