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...
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the Dutch East India Company killed ethnic Chinese residents of the port city of Batavia, Dutch East Indies, (present-day Jakarta) in the Dutch East Indies...
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Dutch East Indies in 1610, and ended in 1800 when the bankrupt company was dissolved and its possessions were nationalized as the Dutch East Indies....
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the Netherlands Batavia, Dutch East Indies, present-day Jakarta, the former capital of the Dutch East Indies (1619–1949) Old Batavia, the original downtown...
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sailed that year on her maiden voyage for Batavia, capital of the Dutch East Indies. On 4 June 1629, Batavia was wrecked on the Houtman Abrolhos, a chain...
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The East Indies (or simply the Indies) is a term used in historical narratives of the Age of Discovery. The Indies broadly refers to various lands in the...
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The Dutch East Indies campaign of 1941–1942 was the conquest of the Dutch East Indies (present-day Indonesia) by forces of the Empire of Japan in the...
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The Dutch East Indies, also known as the Netherlands East Indies (Dutch: Nederlands(ch)-Indië; Indonesian: Hindia Belanda) and Dutch Indonesia, was a Dutch...
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Kota Tua Jakarta (redirect from Old Batavia)
downtown area of Jakarta, Indonesia. It is also known as Oud Batavia (Dutch for "Old Batavia"), Benedenstad ("Lower City", contrasting it with Weltevreden...
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History of Jakarta (category CS1 Dutch-language sources (nl))
officially named as Batavia on January 18, 1621, from which the Dutch East Indies eventually ruled the entire region.[citation needed] Batavia under VOC control...
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(disambiguation); Greater India; East India; East Indies; Dutch East Indies; Dutch India; Voorcompagnie; List of Dutch East India Company trading posts and settlements...
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The French and British interregnum in the Dutch East Indies of the Dutch East Indies took place between 1806 and 1816. The French ruled between 1806 and...
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Lapangan Banteng (redirect from Waterloo Square, Batavia)
(Indonesian: "Bull's Field", formerly Waterloo Square (Dutch: Waterlooplein) in Batavia, Dutch East Indies) is a historic square located in a historic area...
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served as Grand Mufti of Batavia in 19th century of Dutch East Indies. Habib Uthman bin Yahya was born in Pekojan, Batavia in 1822 CE (17 Rabi' al-awwal...
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Adolphe Vorderman (category CS1 Dutch-language sources (nl))
July 1902) was a Dutch physician and scientist whose study of the link between polished rice and beriberi in the Dutch East Indies in 1897 helped lead...
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Abraham van Riebeeck (category Governors-General of the Dutch East Indies)
his father moved to Batavia in the Dutch East Indies (present-day Indonesia) in 1662, he sent Van Riebeeck and his brother to Holland. He studied law at...
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The Harmony Society (Dutch: Societeit de Harmonie) was an elite social club in Batavia, Dutch East Indies. It was the oldest clubhouse in Asia when it...
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Council) was an advisory, and later semi-legislative institution for the Dutch East Indies, provided for by law in 1916 but only established with the actual...
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landmark of the Molenvliet, a 17th-century built canal located in Batavia, the Dutch East Indies (now Jakarta, Indonesia). Marine Hotel was located at the south...
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in the Dutch East Indies and had pavilion at the Colonial Exhibition of Semarang in 1914. The company also operated in Batavia, Dutch East Indies, including...
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of the oldest and most prestigious hotels in Asia. Located in Batavia, Dutch East Indies, the hotel had accommodated countless famous patrons throughout...
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Punsch (category Swedish East India Company)
most punsches, also imported into Europe by the Dutch from their colony in Batavia, Dutch East Indies. Punsch usually has 25% alcohol by volume (ABV)...
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Jan Pieterszoon Coen (category 17th-century Dutch East Indies people)
of Batavia, capital of the Dutch East Indies. Renowned for providing the impulse that set the VOC on the path to dominance in the Dutch East Indies, he...
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1935 KLM Bushehr incident (category CS1 Dutch-language sources (nl))
DC-2 aircraft, registration PH-AKM, operated by KLM, flying from Batavia, Dutch East Indies with several stopovers to Schiphol, Amsterdam, the Netherlands...
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Olivia Mariamne Devenish (category CS1 Dutch-language sources (nl))
was buried in Batavia, Dutch East Indies. Her tomb can still be seen in Taman Prasasti Museum, the former European cemetery of Batavia that had been converted...
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the Dutch East Indies who chaired the Council of the Indies, the executive committee that made decisions in the Dutch East Indies. Batavia Castle was demolished...
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Nederlandsch-Indische Escompto Maatschappij (category Defunct companies of the Dutch East Indies)
Maatschappij (NIEM, lit. 'Dutch [East] Indies discount company') was a significant Dutch bank, founded in 1857 in Batavia, Dutch East Indies. In the first half...
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inexplicable crimes aboard an East Indiaman ship. In 1634, investigator Samuel Pipps of the Dutch East India Company is arrested in Batavia. Pipps and his sidekick...
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Frans Tutuhatunewa (category People from Batavia, Dutch East Indies)
in Batavia, Dutch East Indies. He was preceded by Johan Manusama and succeeded by John Wattilete in 2010. Frans Tutuhatunewa's obituary (in Dutch) Setiawan...
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Mohammad Husni Thamrin (category People from Batavia, Dutch East Indies)
of the Dutch colony in the East Indies. After his death, he was regarded as an Indonesian National Hero. Thamrin was born in Weltevreden, Batavia (modern-day...
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