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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 .
Jan 8, 2022 · Batavia was a Dutch city founded in 1619 in present-day Jakarta, Indonesia. It became the center of the spice trade and the Dutch East India Company, but also a site of brutal massacres and repression of the native and Chinese populations.
- Kaleena Fraga
The Dutch East Indies, also known as the Netherlands East Indies (Dutch: Nederlands(ch)-Indië; Indonesian: Hindia Belanda) and Dutch Indonesia, was a Dutch colony with territory mostly comprising the modern state of Indonesia, which declared independence on 17 August 1945.
Jul 1, 2015 · Built in 1619 to establish a Dutch administrative and cultural headquarters in Southeast Asia for the Dutch East India Company (VOC), Batavia evinced the general principles of seventeenth-century Dutch planning back in the Netherlands, including a layout that imposed order on the city’s diverse population.
- Marsely L. Kehoe
- 2015
2 days ago · The Dutch, under the leadership of Jan Pieterszoon Coen, captured and razed the city in 1619, after which the capital of the Dutch East Indies—a walled township named Batavia—was established on the site.
Under the Dutch, it was known as Batavia (1619–1945), and was Djakarta (in Dutch) or Jakarta, during the Japanese occupation and the modern period. For a more detailed history of Jakarta before the proclamation of Indonesian independence, see Batavia, Dutch East Indies.
Mar 5, 2020 · This chapter explores the history and culture of Batavia, the colonial capital of the Dutch East Indies, from 1602 to 1800. It examines how the Dutch V.O.C urbanism and architecture influenced and interacted with the local society and environment in the context of global trade and multiculturalism.
