It was a European colonial city for about 320 years until 1942, when the Dutch East Indies was occupied by Japan during World War II. During the Japanese occupation and after Indonesian nationalists declared independence on 17 August 1945, the city was known as Jakarta.

Jan 8, 2022 · Today, Batavia is no more. This former Dutch colony in Indonesia exists only in glimmers on the streets of Jakarta. But those glimmers, however faint, tell a story of immense wealth and horrific violence. Established by the Dutch in 1619, Batavia rapidly became the heart of the Dutch East Indies.

The Dutch East Indies, [3] also known as the Netherlands East Indies (Dutch: Nederlands (ch)-Indië; Indonesian: Hindia Belanda), was a Dutch colony with territory mostly comprising the modern state of Indonesia, which declared independence on 17 August 1945.

The 1740 Batavia massacre (Dutch: Chinezenmoord, lit. 'Murder of the Chinese'; Indonesian: Geger Pacinan, lit. 'Chinatown tumult') was a massacre and pogrom of ethnic Chinese residents of the port city of Batavia, Dutch East Indies, (present-day Jakarta) in the Dutch East Indies.

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.

It was a European colonial city for about 320 years until 1942, when the Dutch East Indies was occupied by Japan during World War II. During the Japanese occupation and after Indonesian nationalists declared independence on 17 August 1945, the city was known as Jakarta.

Batavia was the capital of the Dutch East Indies, which is modern-day Jakarta, Indonesia. Founded in 1619 by the Dutch, Batavia became a center for the Dutch East India Company's trading network in Asia. The city had two centers, Oud Batavia and …

Jan 16, 2018 · From here voyagers would sail to the Textel to join the big EastIndiaman trading ships that would make the long voyage to the East Indies. It was Batavia, founded in 1619, that became the centre of the vast trading empire established by the VOC over Asia and the Orient.

BATAVIA, a city and seaport on the north coast of the island of Java, and the capital of all the Dutch settlements in the East. The population in 1880 was 96,957; in 1898, 115,567; including 94 2 3 Europeans, 26,433 Chinese, 2828 Arabs and 132 other Asiatic foreigners.

On 29 October 1628, Batavia departed from Texel in the Netherlands on its first voyage for the Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie (VOC)—the Honourable Dutch East India Company. Sailing as part of a larger fleet, Batavia was transporting 341 people, money, and merchandise to Batavia, the Dutch colonial capital in the East Indies (modern-day ...