Batavia

Not to be confused with Bavaria, Jatavia, or Latvia.

Batavia may refer to:

Historical places

• Batavia (region), a land inhabited by the Batavian people during the Roman Empire, today part of the Netherlands
• Batavia, Dutch East Indies, present-day Jakarta, the former capital of the Dutch East Indies (1619–1949)
  • Old Batavia, the original downtown area of Jakarta
  • Jakarta, the modern-day city, capital of Indonesia
• Batavian Republic, the Netherlands from 1795 to 1806 as a French vassal state, Batavia being the Latin name of the Low countries
• Passau, Germany, called Batavis or Batavia by the Romans
• West Batavia, New York, a former hamlet and post office in Genesee County

Modern places

United States

• Batavia, California, an unincorporated community in Solano County, California
• Batavia, Illinois, a city in Kane County, Illinois, named for the city in New York
• Batavia, Iowa, a city in Jefferson County, Iowa
• Batavia, Michigan, a community in Branch County, Michigan
• Batavia, New York, a city which is the county seat of Genesee County, New York, named for the region in the Netherlands
  • Batavia (town), New York, in Genesee County, New York
• Batavia Kill (Schoharie Creek tributary), a river in Greene County, New York
• Batavia, Ohio, a town and the county seat of Clermont County, Ohio
• Batavia, Wisconsin, an unincorporated community in Sheboygan County, Wisconsin
• Batavia Township (disambiguation), several communities

Elsewhere

• Batavia, Suriname, a former leper colony site in Suriname
• Batavia Coast, a region in Western Australia
• Batavia Road, an anchorage in Western Australia

Transportation

• Batavia (1628 ship), a ship of the Dutch East India Company shipwrecked on her maiden voyage on the coast of Australia in 1629

  Batavia (1995 ship), a seaworthy replica of the same ship

• Batavia (1802 ship), an English ship
• Batavia Road (boat), one of the first boats used for a commercial tourist operation in the Houtman Abrolhos
• Batavia Air, an Indonesian airline

Sport

• Batavia F.C., an Indonesian football club based in South Jakarta
• Batavia Union F.C., an Indonesian football club based in North Jakarta

Other uses

• Batavia, a type of lettuce with broad flat leaves
• Batavia (cloth), an 18th-century silk fabric, popular for dress in France, made in Batavia now (Jakarta)
• Batavia (opera), by Richard Mills
• Batavia Institute, a registered historic place in Batavia, Illinois
• Batavia, a group of islands in Dougal Dixon's book After Man: A Zoology of the Future
• Batavia Knoll, a submerged microcontinent part of the Naturaliste Plateau

See also

• Batavians, a Germanic tribe living during the Roman Empire in the area of the Rhine delta
• All pages with titles beginning with Batavia
• All pages with titles containing Batavia
• Batavi (disambiguation)
• Betawi (disambiguation)
• Betawi people, named after Batavia, Dutch East Indies