Batavi (Germanic tribe)
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The Batavians or Batavi were a Roman-era Germanic people that lived in Batavia in the eastern Rhine delta — an area that is now in the Netherlands, but then lay upon the northernmost border of the Rom
The Conspiracy of the Batavians under Claudius Civilis by Rembrandt van Rijn
Funerary stela of one of Nero's Corporis Custodes, the imperial Germanic bodyguard. The bodyguard, Indus, was of the Batavian tribe.
A Roman cavalry helmet, discovered in 1915 near Nijmegen, from the second half of the first century, at Valkhof Museum
Batavia (region)
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Batavia, known in Dutch as Betuwe, is a historical and geographical region in the Netherlands, composed of large fertile islands in the river delta formed by the waters of the Rhine and Meuse rivers.
Batavi (Germanic tribe)
…The Batavians or Batavi were a Roman-era Germanic people that lived in Batavia in the eastern Rhine delta — an area that is now in the Netherlands, but then lay upon the northernmost border of the Roman Empire in continental Europe…
The Netherlands c. 50 AD. The river island of Batavia can be seen directly below the large round river island in the center. Thin, it stretched from the country's centre to the German border, with roughly a third of its western side fens (indicated in brown) and two thirds of its eastern side river valleys (green). The modern Betuwe region corresponds greatly with it.
Lingewaard riverscape
A landscape in today's Betuwe, shaped for centuries by fruit orchards