Batavia

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Batavia may refer to:

Historical places

  • Batavia (region), a land inhabited by the Batavian people during the Roman Empire, today part of the Netherlands
  • 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
  • Passau, Germany, called Batavis or Batavia by the Romans

Modern places

United States

  • Batavia, California, an unincorporated community in Solano County, California
  • Batavia, Illinois, a city in Kane County, Illinois, named for the city in New York
  • Batavia, Iowa, a city in Jefferson County, Iowa
  • Batavia, Michigan, a community in Branch County, Michigan
  • Batavia, New York, a city which is the county seat of Genesee County, New York, named for the region in the Netherlands
    • Batavia (town), New York, in Genesee County, New York
  • Batavia Kill (Schoharie Creek tributary), a river in Greene County, New York
  • Batavia, Ohio, a town and the county seat of Clermont County, Ohio
  • Batavia, Wisconsin, an unincorporated community in Sheboygan County, Wisconsin
  • Batavia Township (disambiguation), several communities

Elsewhere

  • Batavia, Suriname, a former leper colony site in Suriname
  • Batavia Road, an anchorage in Western Australia

Transportation

  • Batavia (1628 ship), a ship of the Dutch East India Company shipwrecked on her maiden voyage on the coast of Australia in 1629
    Batavia (1995 ship), a seaworthy replica of the same ship
  • Batavia (1802 ship), an English ship
  • Batavia Road (boat), one of the first boats used for a commercial tourist operation in the Houtman Abrolhos
  • Batavia Air, an Indonesian airline

Sport

  • Batavia F.C., an Indonesian football club based in South Jakarta
  • Batavia Union F.C., an Indonesian football club based in North Jakarta

Other uses

  • Batavia, a type of lettuce with broad flat leaves
  • Batavia (cloth), an 18th-century silk fabric, popular for dress in France, made in Batavia now (Jakarta)
  • Batavia (opera), by Richard Mills
  • Batavia Institute, a registered historic place in Batavia, Illinois
  • Batavia, a group of islands in Dougal Dixon's book After Man: A Zoology of the Future
  • Batavia Knoll, a submerged microcontinent part of the Naturaliste Plateau

See also

  • Batavians, a Germanic tribe living during the Roman Empire in the area of the Rhine delta
  • All pages with titles beginning with Batavia
  • All pages with titles containing Batavia
  • Batavi (disambiguation)
  • Betawi (disambiguation)
  • Betawi people, named after Batavia, Dutch East Indies
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