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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. |
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| He then told us that he went to Batavia, where two of the seamen belonging to the ship arrived, having deserted the rest in their travels, and gave an account that the fellow who had run away with the ship, sold her at Bengal to a set of pirates, who were gone a- cruising in her, and that they had already taken an English ship and two Dutch ships very richly laden. When our skipper came back we learned that the steamer was the Sommerville, Captain Nash, from West Australia to Singapore via Batavia with mails, and that the agreement was she should tow us to Anjer or Ba- tavia, if possible, where we could extinguish the fire by scuttling, and then proceed on our voyage--to Bankok |