Batavia

Meaning

  1. (declension-1) The land of the Batā̆vī, situated around the modern city of Nijmegen.
  2. (New-Latin, declension-1) Netherlands (the main constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located primarily in Western Europe bordering Germany and Belgium)
  3. (New-Latin, declension-1) Netherlands (a country in Western Europe, consisting of four constituent countries: the Netherlands per se, Aruba, Curaçao and Sint Maarten the Kingdom of the Netherlands)

Translations

Pronounced as (IPA)
[baˈtaː.wi.a]
Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *Batawjō (“good island”).

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