Batavia

Former name (to 1949) for Jakarta, capital of Indonesia on the island of Java.

Batavia

City in northeastern Illinois, 56 km/35 mi west of Chicago, on the Fox River; population (1990 est) 17,100. It has iron and brass foundries and manufactures farm machinery, electric switches, truck bodies, castings, and television tubes. There are limestone deposits nearby. Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), one of the largest particle physics research centres in the USA, is immediately east of the city.

It was settled in 1833 by Dutch immigrants and was a major centre for American windmill manufacture through the early 20th century.

Batavia

City and administrative headquarters of Genesee County in northwestern New York State, 58 km/36 mi east of Buffalo and 53 km/33 mi southwest of Rochester, on Tonawanda Creek; population (1990 est) 16,300. It is the market and shipping centre of a farming region, and has a mixed industrial sector producing processed foods, machinery, and home products.

Named after the Batavian Republic (the Netherlands), it was the centre of the Holland Land Company Purchase of 1793. There is a New York state school for the visually impaired (1868) and Genesee Community College (1966). The Tonawanda (Seneca) reservation is to the northwest.