Batavia

capital of the Dutch East Indies (1619–1949), now the city of Jakarta
Place ancient_city Q1199713
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Batavia

Summary

Batavia is an ancient city[1]. Batavia ranks in the top 1% of ancient_city entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,799 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Batavia is in the country of Dutch East Indies[3].
  • Batavia's instance of is recorded as ancient city[4].
  • Batavia's coat of arms image is recorded as Coat of Arms of Batavia (1930).svg[5].
  • Batavia's coat of arms is recorded as Coat of arms of Batavia[6].
  • Batavia's Commons category is recorded as Batavia[7].
  • Batavia's located in time zone is recorded as UTC+08:00[8].
  • Batavia's coordinate location is recorded as {'lat': -6.134836, 'lon': 106.813222}[9].
  • Batavia's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Batavia[10].
  • Batavia's described by source is recorded as The Nuttall Encyclopædia[11].
  • Batavia's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[12].
  • Batavia's described by source is recorded as Meyer’s Universum, Neunter Band[13].
  • Batavia's capital of is recorded as Dutch East Indies[14].
  • Batavia's category for people born here is recorded as Category:Births in Batavia[15].
  • Batavia's category for people who died here is recorded as Category:Deaths in Batavia[16].
  • Batavia's native label is recorded as {'lang': 'nl', 'text': 'Batavia'}[17].
  • Batavia's category of associated people is recorded as Category:People from Batavia, Dutch East Indies[18].
  • Batavia's different from is recorded as Batavia[19].
  • Batavia's different from is recorded as Jakarta[20].
  • Batavia's YSO ID is recorded as 159786[21].
  • Batavia's Google Knowledge Graph ID is recorded as /g/11b8t74_x5[22].
  • Batavia's Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID is recorded as 1864250[23].
  • Batavia's FactGrid item ID is recorded as Augustus Meineke[24].
  • Batavia's RKD thesaurus ID is recorded as 120[25].
  • Batavia's GitHub topic is recorded as batavia[26].
  • Batavia's museum-digital place ID is recorded as 24991[27].

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Geography

Batavia is in the country of Dutch East Indies[3].

Designation and Status

Batavia's instance of is recorded as ancient city[4].

Cultural Significance

Things named for Batavia include Betawi people[28], an ethnic group[29].

Why It Matters

Batavia ranks in the top 1% of ancient_city entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,799 views/month).[2] Batavia has Wikipedia articles in 16 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[30] Batavia is known by 18 alternative names across languages and contexts.[31]

Entities named for Batavia include Betawi people[28], an ethnic group[29].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
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  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
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  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . YSO-Wikidata mapping project. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [28] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [29] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [30] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [31] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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