Batavia 46571 216389562 2008-06-01T12:28:36Z 121.220.144.164 {{otheruses|Batavia (disambiguation)}} '''Batavia''' is the [[Latin]] name for the land of the [[Batavians]] during Roman time. This was roughly the area around the city of [[Nijmegen]] within the [[Roman Empire]]. The remainder of this land is nowadays known as [[Betuwe]]. During the [[Renaissance]], [[Netherlands|Dutch]] historians tried to promote these Batavians wrongly to the status of 'archfathers' of the Dutch people. They started to call themselves Batavians, later resulting in the [[Batavian Republic]], and took this to their colonies like [[Indonesia]] ([[Jakarta]]), Suriname ([[Batavia, Suriname]]), and in the United States, around Nieuw Amsterdam (now called [[New York]]), you'll find [[Batavia (city), New York]]. The origin, however, remains [[Betuwe]]. == See also == * [[Batavia (ship)]] {{Netherlands-hist-stub}} [[da:Batavia]] [[de:Batavia]] [[es:Batavia]] [[fr:Batavia]] [[it:Batavia]] [[la:Batavia (discretiva)]] [[nl:Batavia]] [[pl:Batavia]] [[sv:Batavia]]