History of Patrick Simson, A Scottish Merchant in the 17th century Moldavian Potash trade

In this detail I summarised the story of a very wealthy and influential Scot in 17th Century Eastern Europe (Poland but also Moldavia), based on the account of E. D. Tappe and Paul Ricaut ( available here Could not find images of Scottish Merchants in any of the Moldavian trading centres such as Iasi during the early modern period so just used a commons painting -- A view of Danzig in 1575, vital to Scottish grain supply and the site of a colony of Scottish merchants (Public Domain) Intro and outro -- excerpts of Yonder Hill and Dale - Aaron Kenny (YouTube Audio Library also Public Domain)

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History of Patrick Simson, A Scottish Merchant in the 17th century Moldavian Potash trade is an episode from Wonderer's History Podcast by Vlad Zamfira.

This episode is 00:09:43 long.

This episode was published on Sep 27, 2023.

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