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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
former name of Jakarta, capital of Indonesia, when it was the Dutch East Indies, a colony of the Netherlands; from Batavia, an ancient name for a region of Holland, from Latin Batavi, a people who dwelt between the Rhine and the Waal on the island of Betawe.
Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 6924
Land area (2000): 5.187121 sq. miles (13.434582 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.064964 sq. miles (0.168257 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 5.252085 sq. miles (13.602839 sq. km)
FIPS code: 04715
Located within: New York (NY), FIPS 36
Location: 42.998572 N, 78.184116 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 14020
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Headwords:
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Housing Units (2000): 696
Land area (2000): 1.462881 sq. miles (3.788845 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.024556 sq. miles (0.063601 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.487437 sq. miles (3.852446 sq. km)
FIPS code: 04150
Located within: Ohio (OH), FIPS 39
Location: 39.077332 N, 84.179160 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 45103
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Housing Units (2000): 8806
Land area (2000): 9.045794 sq. miles (23.428497 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.140369 sq. miles (0.363554 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 9.186163 sq. miles (23.792051 sq. km)
FIPS code: 04078
Located within: Illinois (IL), FIPS 17
Location: 41.846562 N, 88.308441 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 60510
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Housing Units (2000): 234
Land area (2000): 0.591990 sq. miles (1.533248 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.591990 sq. miles (1.533248 sq. km)
FIPS code: 04825
Located within: Iowa (IA), FIPS 19
Location: 40.997604 N, 92.167752 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 52533
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Headwords:
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Wikipedia
Batavia may refer to:
Batavia is an opera in three acts and a prologue by Richard Mills to a libretto by Peter Goldsworthy, commissioned by Opera Australia. The plot is based on the historical events surrounding the Dutch sailing ship Batavia.
The opera premiered on 11 May 2001 at the State Theatre (Melbourne) for the Centenary of Federation Festival. It received three Helpmann Awards and six Green Room Awards. The work lasts for about three hours and ten minutes with one interval. The CD recording was captured at the State Theatre, Victorian Arts Centre, Melbourne, on the 11 & 13 May 2001.
Role
Voice type
Premiere cast, 11 May 2001
Conductor: Richard Mills
Francis Pelsaert, commander
bass
Bruce Martin
Gijsbert Bastiensz, preacher
John Bolton-Wood
Wiebbe Hayes, provost
Barry Ryan
Jeronimus Cornelisz, undermerchant
baritone
Michael Lewis
Conraat van Huyssen, nobleman/company cadet
tenor
Jamie Allen
Lucretia Jansz
Anke Höppner
Zwaantie Hendricx, Lucretia's maid
soprano
Emma Matthews
Maria Bastiensz, the preacher's wife
Elizabeth Campbell
Henchman
tenor
James Egglestone
Judit, the preacher's daughter
soprano
Joanne Blankfield
Willem, Judit's younger brother
boy soprano
Bill Dodd
Caspar, Wiebbe Hayes' son
boy soprano
Mark Casey
Bessel, Wiebbe Hayes' son
boy soprano
Christopher Toohey
Director
Lindy Hume
Design
Dan Potra
Lighting
Rory Dempster
Chorus
Batavia was the name used by the Roman Empire for the land of the Batavians, a Germanic tribe. It was described as a large island between rivers in the Rhine-Meuse delta. Its modern equivalent is Betuwe. The Batavians shared the island with the Canninefates, to their west near the coast. Their Roman city was Nijmegen.
The "Batavian island" in the Rhine river was mentioned by Julius Caesar in his commentary Commentarii de Bello Gallico. The island's easternmost point is at a split in the Rhine, one arm being the Waal and the other the Lower Rhine/ Old Rhine (hence the Latin name Insula Batavorum, "Island of the Batavi"). Much later Tacitus wrote that they had originally been a tribe of the Chatti, a tribe in Germany never mentioned by Caesar, who were forced by internal dissension to move to their new home.
Tacitus also reports that before their arrival the area had been "an uninhabited district on the extremity of the coast of Gaul, and also of a neighbouring island, surrounded by the ocean in front, and by the river Rhine in the rear and on either side". In a more detailed description he writes:
"The island of the Batavi was the appointed rendezvous because of its easy landing-places, and its convenience for receiving the army and carrying the war across the river. For the Rhine after flowing continuously in a single channel or encircling merely insignificant islands, divides itself, so to say, where the Batavian territory begins, into two rivers, retaining its name and the rapidity of its course in the stream which washes Germany, till it mingles with the ocean. On the Gallic bank, its flow is broader and gentler; it is called by an altered name, the Vahal, by the inhabitants of its shore. Soon that name too is changed for the Mosa river, through whose vast mouth it empties itself into the same ocean."The name was also mentioned by Pliny the Elder, and it played a role in the account by Tacitus of the Germanic uprising of 68. He said that "In the Rhine itself, nearly 100 miles in length, Batavia is the most famous island of the Batavi and the Canninefates".
Its later Roman history is attested by Ammianus Marcellinus and Zosimus, who described the migrations of the Frankish Salians over the Rhine and into the empire. They first crossed the Rhine during the Roman upheavals and subsequent Germanic breakthrough in 260 AD. After peace had returned, in 297 AD, the Roman Emperor Constantius Chlorus allowed the Salians to settle among the Batavians, where they soon came to dominate the Batavian island in the Rhine delta.
In the Renaissance, the Dutch wanted to rediscover their pre-medieval Batavi culture and history. This common history raised Batavi to the status of cultural ancestors to all Dutch people (see The Batavian Revival). They occasionally called themselves, or their things ( Batavia), Batavians, resulting even in a short-lived Batavian Republic. The name Batavia was also taken to the colonies such as the Dutch East Indies, where they renamed the city of Jayakarta to become Batavia from 1619 until about 1942, when its name was changed to Djakarta (short for the former name Jayakarta, later respelt Jakarta; see: History of Jakarta). The name was also used in Suriname, where they founded Batavia, Suriname, and in the United States where the Holland Land Company founded the city and the town of Batavia, New York. This name spread further west in the United States to such places as Batavia, Illinois, near Chicago, and Batavia, Ohio.
Usage examples of "batavia".
Wavell had arrived in Batavia on January 10, and established his headquarters near Bandoeng, the centre of the Dutch Army Command.
His Excellency was good enough to point that out to me yesterday - perhaps he showed you the same map- - and I will make the same reply to you as I did to him: as the prevailing winds lie at this season, it is quicker to go back to Batavia by the False Natunas than by the Banka Strait.
One day he sent his sons out to Batavia, a passage from Calicut, and they were dead within a week, from the ague.
That was the booty from the Heerlycke Nacht, mostly silver plate and a hundred thousand guilders in coin that had been intended for payment of the Dutch garrison in Batavia.
Batavia, he had only escaped the gallows by flight--I had my own thoughts as to the similarity between his destiny and mine, but I did not reveal them.
After a four-day round trip to Evanston, the tank returned to the Batavia ruins and fired a canister of tapes and photos through the I-Screen.
When he and I first made our acquaintance together, we did discourse often in the course of that long voyage here from Batavia of how our life might be in my land of England but I would say this day that it is the first time that I may allow myself to feel any certainty of happiness.
They met, as I understand it, on his ship that brought her back from Batavia where she had been stranded by misadventure.
There I found, perhaps by providence, Dahl and his ship, newly come to Batavia for the first time, loaded with cargo and now preparing to sail, I asked him for help, showed him the shine of my money and bought a passage back.
I told him an untruth because I had to, saying I had been very ill in Batavia, prostrated by a fever for weeks almost from the day of my arrival and therefore had no knowledge of the country worth speaking of.
He remembered how he had despised one of his brother officers in Batavia who, over the matter of a woman, had placed the muzzle of a loaded pistol in his mouth and blown away the back of his skull.
It was the only remedy against the malaria, a disease that mariners encountered in every known area of the oceans, from the jungles of Batavia and Further India to the canals of Venice, the swamps of Virginia and the Caribbean in the New World.
They were cemetery experts from Batavia way, and the job was to cost sixteen hundred dollars.
He had entered the Dutch East India Company's service, but having been concerned in a revolt at Batavia, he had only escaped the gallows by flight--I had my own thoughts as to the similarity between his destiny and mine, but I did not reveal them.
Inside, each tucked into its own sandbagged nook, six wireless sets were operating, their operators working in R/T or W/T to ALFSEA in Singapore, to Batavia, or to detachments in places like Palembang and Padang.