What medieval term, whose venues are now mostly 'town' halls (UK, Netherlands, Belgium) refers to a merchant association?
Merchant and 13th centuries. Medieval merchants began to trade in exotic goods imported from distant shores including spices, wine, food, furs, fine cloth (notably silk), glass, jewellery and many other luxury goods. Market towns began to spread across the landscape during the medieval period. Merchant guilds began to form during the Medieval period. A fraternity formed by the merchants of Tiel in Gelderland (in present-day Netherlands) in 1020 is believed to be the first example of a guild. The term, "guild" was first used for "gilda mercatoria" to describe a body of merchants operating out of St. Omer, France in the
Music venues in the Netherlands Music venues in the Netherlands Music venues in the Netherlands are a vivid part of the social cultural environment of the country. In every big city there are concert halls for popular music, classical music and jazz. The ten biggest dedicated music venues are Ziggo Dome, Heineken Music Hall, Melkweg, Paradiso all in Amsterdam, Paard van Troje in The Hague, Tivoli in Utrecht has two venues: the new TivoliVredenburg and Tivoli De Helling. Patronaat(Haarlem), 013 (Tilburg), Effenaar (Eindhoven) and Doornroosje in Nijmegen. Watt in Rotterdam has shut his doors in 2010. In every middle sized town of city (approx. 100.000