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According to the Dutch dictionary, Woordenboek der Nederlandsche Taal, the Southern Low Countries define the word “natie”, or nation, as a corporation or guild. In the port of Antwerp, these “nations” were originally associations of craft guilds, which arranged the handling and transportation of cargo from the quays to the warehouses. Dockworkers, or stevedores, did the actual loading and unloading of the ships’ goods.

Nations were private companies with a cooperative structure. The nations’ shareholders were the Nation Bosses, who headed up crews of dockworkers (natiegasten) that he or his delegate rounded up for recruitment each day at the Drafting Building (het “kot”). The managers of the nations were called Nation Directors.

During the French Revolution, the French occupiers did away with these nations and guilds. However, Napoleon reinstated them when he came into power. The names of the nations usually refer to the type of goods they were involved in, or to the Nation Bosses.

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