Associations to the word «Batavia»

Wiktionary

BATAVIA, proper noun. (historical) Former name of Jakarta, used during the Dutch East Indies period.
BATAVIA, proper noun. The land of the ancient Batavians or Batavi (part of the modern Netherlands).
BATAVIA, proper noun. The Netherlands from 1795 to 1806 as a French client state.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope