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Batavia, Dutch East Indies. Batavia was the capital of the Dutch East Indies. The area corresponds to present-day Jakarta, Indonesia. Batavia can refer to the city proper or its suburbs and hinterland, the Ommelanden, which included the much larger area of the Residency of Batavia in the present-day Indonesian provinces of Jakarta, Banten and ...
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Batavia (/ b ə ˈ t eɪ v i ə /; Dutch: Betuwe, Dutch: [ˈbeːtyu.ə] ⓘ) is a historical and geographical region in the Netherlands, forming large fertile islands in the river delta formed by the waters of the Rhine (Dutch: Rijn) and Meuse (Dutch: Maas) rivers.
Batavia was the capital of the Dutch East Indies. The area corresponds to present-day Jakarta, Indonesia. Batavia can refer to the city proper or its suburbs and hinterland, the Ommelanden, which included the much larger area of the Residency of Batavia in the present-day Indonesian provinces of Jakarta, Banten and West Java.
Batavia, Dutch East Indies, present-day Jakarta, the former capital of the Dutch East Indies (1619–1949) Old Batavia, the original downtown area of Jakarta; Jakarta, the modern-day city, capital of Indonesia; Batavian Republic, the Netherlands from 1795 to 1806 as a French vassal state, Batavia being the Latin name of the Low countries
Jan 8, 2022 · Established by the Dutch in 1619, Batavia rapidly became the heart of the Dutch East Indies. Spice in the 17th century was as good as gold — and the abundance of spice in Batavia made the Netherlands rich. All the while, colonizers in Batavia regularly relied on violence to subdue the indigenous population — and massacred thousands of them.
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As the capital of Dutch East Indies A street in Old Batavia in 1890, depicting 17th century housing before the development of a business district. The city retained its status as the administrative center of the Dutch East Indies when the VOC transferred its possession to the monarch of the Netherlands in 1800.
