Batavia was an imperial Dutch port city that eventually, after two centuries of Dutch occupation, became the capital of the Dutch East Indies. The area corresponds to present-day Jakarta, Indonesia. B
Collectie N Mv Wereldculturen, TM 60036462, Foto, 'De Kali Besar Zuid in de Chinese wijk van Batavia', fotograaf onbekend, 1925 1938
COLLECTIE TROPENMUSEUM Stadhuis in de benedenstad van Batavia T Mnr 60004846
COLLECTIE TROPENMUSEUM 'Het standbeeld van J.P. Coen voor het Paleis van Daendels het 'Grote Huis' aan het Waterlooplein in Weltevreden te Batavia' T Mnr 10015443
COLLECTIE TROPENMUSEUM Luchtfoto van het spoorwegstation te Batavia Kota T Mnr 10014030
Jakarta is Indonesia's capital and largest city. Located on an estuary of the Ciliwung River, on the northwestern part of Java, the area has long sustained human settlement. Historical evidence from J
Batavia, Dutch East Indies
…in the present-day Indonesian provinces of Jakarta Banten and West Java. The founding of Batavia by the Dutch in 1619, on the site of the ruins of Jayakarta, led to the establishment of a Dutch colony; Batavia became the center of the Dutch East India Company's trading network in Asia. Monopolies on local…
Image of Batavia, capital of the Dutch East Indies in what is now North Jakarta, circa 1780
Padrão of Sunda Kalapa (1522), a stone pillar sealing the Sunda–Portuguese treaty, Indonesian National Museum, Jakarta
Jayakarta in 1605, prior to the establishment of Batavia