This city gained great trading wealth because of its Sunda Kalapa port at the mouth of the Ciliwung River long before Jan Pieterszoon Coen saved its colonial buildings from destruction and renamed it Batavia. Nationalist forces moved their capital from it to Yogyakarta when it was recaptured by the Dutch following World War II, but in 1949 it becam
This city gained great trading wealth because of its Sunda Kalapa port at the mouth of the Ciliwung River long before Jan Pieterszoon Coen saved its colonial buildings from destruction and renamed it Batavia. Nationalist forces moved their capital from it to Yogyakarta when it was recaptured by the Dutch following World War II, but in 1949 it became the seat of an independent government led by Mohammad Hatta and Sukarno. It was later Suharto's capital and is now home to Susilo Yudhoyono. FTP, identify this city on Java, the capital of Indonesia.
This city gained great trading wealth because of its Sunda Kalapa port at the mouth of the Ciliwung River long before Jan Pieterszoon Coen saved its colonial buildings from destruction and renamed it Batavia.
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