The City's official birthday -- celebrated each year on June 22 -- is related to a skirmish won on that date in 1527 by a conquering prince named Fatahillah. He renamed the settlement "Jayakarta", meaning "City Of Glorious Victory".
A Dutch armada overwhelmed the small outpost in 1619 and renamed it "Batavia". The town they built was the capital of their Dutch East Indies Colony. Then, When the japanese drove out the dutch in the early years of World War II, the city was renamed "Jakarta". That name was retained when Indonesia won its independence.
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