History of Jakarta
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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
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
Batavia in 1682
Banten Sultanate
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The Banten Sultanate was a Bantenese Islamic trading kingdom founded in the 16th century and centred in Banten, a port city on the northwest coast of Java; the contemporary English name of both was Ba
History of Jakarta
…Sunda Kingdom, 659–1527 Banten Sultanate, 1527–1619 Dutch East India Company, 1619–1800…
The city of Bantam, 1599
Colonial era sketch of Grand Mosque of Banten
The reception of Cornelis de Houtman in Java in 1596 by Paulides.
Warriors of Banten, 1596.