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.
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
Salian Franks
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The Salian Franks, or Salians, sometimes referred to by the Latin word Salii or Sali, were a Frankish people who lived in what is now the Netherlands in the 4th century. They are only mentioned under
Batavia (region)
…is the most famous island of the Batavi and the Canninefates". Its later Roman history is attested by Ammianus Marcellinus, who mentions the Frankish Salians as a people living there. Zosimus is the only classical author who claims that they had first crossed the Rhine during the Roman upheavals and subsequent…
Signet ring of Childeric I, king of the Salian Franks from 457 to 481. Inscription CHILDIRICI REGIS ("of Childeric the king"). Found in his tomb at Tournai, now in the Monnaie de Paris