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'''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)]]
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