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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 pronunciation: [baːˈtaːvijaː] ⓘ) was a ship of the Dutch East India Company (VOC). She was built in Amsterdam in 1628 as the flagship of one of the three annual fleets of company ships [4] and sailed that year on her maiden voyage for Batavia, capital of the Dutch East Indies.
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
Under the Dutch, it was known as Batavia (1619–1945) and was later known as Djakarta (in Dutch) or Jakarta during the Japanese occupation and modern period. [2] [3] For a more detailed history of Jakarta before the proclamation of Indonesian independence, see Batavia, Dutch East Indies.
As a result, its assets, which included seaports, storehouses, fortifications, settlements, lands and plantations in the East Indies were nationalised as a Dutch colony, the Dutch East Indies. Based in Batavia (today Jakarta), the Dutch ruled most of Java (with exception of interior lands of Vorstenlanden Mataram and Banten), conquering coastal ...
Governor-general's palace in Batavia in c. 1880–1900 Opening of the Volksraad by Governor-general count of Limburg Stirum in Batavia on 18 May 1918. Since the VOC era, the highest Dutch authority in the colonial possessions of the East Indies resided with the office of the governor-general.
Dutch East India Company; No. Portrait Name Took office Left office 1 Pieter Both (1568–1615) 19 December 1610 6 November 1614 2 Gerard Reynst (1568–1615) 6 November 1614 7 December 1615 3 Laurens Reael (1583–1637) 7 December 1615 21 March 1619 4 Jan Pieterszoon Coen (1587–1629) 30 April 1618 1 February 1623 5 Pieter de Carpentier (1586 ...
The 1740 Batavia massacre (Dutch: Chinezenmoord, lit. 'Murder of the Chinese'; Indonesian: Geger Pacinan, lit. 'Chinatown tumult') was a massacre and pogrom of ethnic Chinese residents of the port city of Batavia, Dutch East Indies, (present-day Jakarta) in the Dutch East Indies.