Editing Batavia (region) (section)

==Roman era==
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During the [[Roman Empire]] there was a ''[[civitas]]'' of the [[Batavi (Germanic tribe)|Batavians]], a Germanic tribe. It was described as a large island between rivers in the [[Rhine-Meuse delta]], the modern equivalent of Betuwe.<ref>Dirk van Miert (ed.), ''The Kaleidoscopic Scholarship of Hadrianus Junius (1511–1575): Northern Humanism at the Dawn of the Dutch Golden Age'', essay by Nico de Glas, pp. 69&ndash;71, {{ISBN|900420914X}}, accessed at Google Books 2014-03-08</ref> The Batavians shared the island with the [[Canninefates]], to their west near the coast. Their Roman city was [[Nijmegen]].

The name was also mentioned by [[Pliny the Elder]], and it played a role in the account by Tacitus of the [[Revolt of the Batavi|Germanic uprising of 68]]. He said that "In the Rhine itself, nearly {{convert|100|mi|km|disp=sqbr|abbr=off}} in length, Batavia is the most famous island of the Batavi and the Canninefates".<ref>Pliny the Elder, ''The Natural History'' [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.02.0137:book=4:chapter=29 IV.29].</ref>

Its later Roman history is attested by [[Ammianus Marcellinus]] who mentions the [[Franks|Frankish]] [[Salians]] as a people living there. [[Zosimus (historian)|Zosimus]] is the only classical author who claims that they had first crossed the Rhine during the Roman upheavals and subsequent Germanic breakthrough in 260 AD. Both authors agree that from Batavia they were pushed south, into [[Toxandria]].