short-lived Belgian precursor state established after the Brabant Revolution against the Habsburg (1790) Belgium: state in Europe Batavi Throughout the centuries the Dutch attempted to define their collective identity by looking at their ancestors, the Batavi. As claimed by the Roman historian Tacitus, the Batavi where a brave Germanic tribe living in the Netherlands, probably in the Betuwe region. In Dutch, the adjective Bataafs'' ("Batavian") was used from the 15th to the 18th century, meaning "of, or relating to the Netherlands" (but not the southern Netherlands). Other use: Lingua Batava or Batavicus: in use as Latin names for the Dutch language Batavisme: in French an expression copied from the Dutch language Batave: in French a person from the Netherlands Batavian Legion: a unit of Dutch volunteers under French command, created and dissolved in 1793 Batavian Revolution: political, social and cultural turmoil in the Netherlands (end 18th century) Batavian Republic (; ), Dutch client state of France (1795–1806) Batavia, Dutch East Indies: capital city of the Dutch East Indies, corresponds to the present-day city of Jakarta Frisii Names from confederations of Germanic tribes Franconian Frankish was the West Germanic language spoken by the Franks between the 4th and 8th century. Between the fifth and ninth centuries, the languages spoken by the Salian Franks in Belgium and the Netherlands evolved into Old Low Franconian (), which formed the beginning of a separate Dutch language and is synonymous with Old Dutch. Compare the synonymous usage, in a linguistic context, of Old English versus Anglo-Saxon. Frisian Frisii were an ancient tribe who lived in the coastal area of the Netherlands in Roman times. After the Migration Period Anglo-Saxons, coming from the east, settled the region. Franks in the south, who were familiar with Roman texts, called the coastal region Frisia, and hence its inhabitants Frisians, even though not all of the inhabitants had Frisian ancestry. After a Frisian Kingdom emerged in the mid-7th century in the Netherlands, with its center of power the city of Utrecht, the Franks conquered the Frisians and converted them to Christianity. From that time on a colony of Frisians was living in Rome and thus the old name for the people from the Low Countries who came to Rome has remained in use in the national church of the Netherlands in Rome, which is called the Frisian church (; ). In 1989, this church was granted to the Dutch