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Batavia (New York, USA)

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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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