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Batavians meaning
plural of Batavian
Example sentences (5)
According to this nationalist view, the Batavians were the "true" forefathers of the Dutch, which explains the recurring use of the name over the centuries.
Contemporary Dutch virtues of independence, fortitude and industry were fully recognizable among the Batavians in more scholarly history represented in Hugo Grotius ' Liber de Antiquitate Republicae Batavicorum (1610).
Following the uprising, Legio X Gemina was housed in a stone castra to keep an eye on the Batavians.
Other Roman soldiers in Xanten and elsewhere and auxiliary troops of Batavians and Canninefatae in the legions of Vitellius ) joined the revolt, thus splitting the northern part of the Roman army.
Schama, p. 16 and fn. 40 Still, by that time the Batavians had already had a bad press in Dutch history writing.