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They were mentioned by Julius Caesar in his commentary Gallic Wars, as living on an island formed by the Meuse River after it is joined by the Waal, 80 Roman miles from the mouth of the river. He said there were many other islands formed by branches of the Rhine, inhabited by savage and barbarous nations, some of whom were supposed to live on fish and the eggs of sea-fowl.

Later, Tacitus described the Batavians as the most brave of the tribes of the area, inhabiting not much territory on the Rhine but an island in it. They were formerly part of the Chattians but moved after a feud to become part of the Roman Empire. He said they retained the honour of the ancient association with the Romans, not required to pay tribute or taxes and used by the Romans only for war. He named the Mattiaci as a similar tribe under homage, but on the other (Germanic) side of the Rhine.

Also the areas inhabited by the Batavians were never occupied by the Romans, as the Batavians were allies. In 69 AD, a Batavian rebellion led by Claudius Civilis arose, which was defeated by the Romans the following year.

After the 3rd century2nd century 3rd century 4th century other centuries) Events The Sassanid dynasty of Persia launches a war to reconquer lost lands in the Roman east. 230 232 AD). Crisis of the Third Century shakes Roman Empire Emperor Valerian I is taken captive by the Pe CE, the Batavians are no longer mentioned, and they are assumed to have merged with the neighbouring FrisianThe Roman historian Tacitus, in his Germania mentioned the Frisians among people he grouped together as the Ingvaeones. Their territory followed the coast of the North Sea from the mouth of the Rhine river up to that of the Ems, their eastern border accor and Frankish people.

The Batavians became regarded as the eponymous ancestors of the Dutch people. The Netherlands were briefly known as the Batavian RepublicFrom 1795 to 1806, the Batavian Republic Bataafse Republiek in Dutch) designated the Netherlands as a republic modelled after the French Republic, to which it was a vassal state. The Batavian Republic was proclaimed on January 19 1795, a day after stadtho. Moreover, in the time IndonesiaThe Republic of Indonesia the world's largest archipelago, is located between the Southeast Asian peninsula and Australia, between the Indian and Pacific Oceans. Indonesia borders Malaysia on the island of Borneo ( Kalimantan in Bahasa Indonesia), Papua N was a Dutch colony, the capital (now JakartaThis page is about the capital city of Indonesia. For an entry on The Apache Jakarta project, see Jakarta Project''. Jakarta known as Djakarta or DKI Jakarta is the capital city of Indonesia, located on the island of Java. It has an area of 650 km² and a) was named Batavia.

A map of the Roman province Germania Inferior and neighbouring tribes.