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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.
The Dutch East Indies produced most of the world's supply of quinine and pepper, over a third of its rubber, a quarter of its coconut products, and a fifth of its tea, sugar, coffee and oil. The profit from the Dutch East Indies made the Netherlands one of the world's most significant colonial powers. [29]
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.
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.
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
Dutch East Indies; No. Portrait Name Took office Left office Monarch; 1 Pieter Gerardus van Overstraten (1755–1801) 16 August 1796 22 August 1801 Batavian Republic
Kota Tua is a remainder of Old Batavia, the first walled settlement of the Dutch in Jakarta area. It was an inner walled city with its own Castle.The area gained importance during the 17th-19th century when it was established as the de facto capital of the Dutch East Indies.
View of the Island and the City of Batavia Belonging to the Dutch, for the India Company. In 1603, the first permanent Dutch trading post in Indonesia was established in Banten, northwest Java, [7] and in 1611, another was established at Jayakarta (later renamed 'Batavia' and then 'Jakarta').