Bahasa Indonesia: Bendera ini adalah bendera yang pernah digunakan oleh Kota Batavia untuk tujuan perdagangan maritim, dan tidak digunakan sebagai bendera kota maupun bendera koloni (Hindia Belanda). Bendera ini sepertinya mulai ada pada akhir abad ke-18 hingga akhir abad ke-19. Tidak banyak informasi yang diketahui dari bendera, dan eksistensinya diketahui dari bagan-bagan (diagram) bendera lama. Bagus dilihat melalui desktop.
English: This flag was once used by Batavia (capital of Dutch East Indies) for maritime trade purpose, and was not used as city flag or colonial flag. This flag apparently existed in the late 18th-century to late 19th-century. Not many information was available from the flag, and its existence was discovered from old flag charts. Best viewed with desktop.
Two version of Batavia's flag. Fig. 212 (left) have a red-colored flag and slightly different coat of arms from fig. 213 (right)
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212. Flag of Batavia; it is red, charged with a silver pale sword, mounted with a laurel crown of Finople, the sword surrounded by a crown of the same, forming a third crown at the top 213. Another flag of Batavia; it is fixed bands, two red, two white, & two blue, charged with a pale sword, with a gold hilt, surrounded by a laurel wreath of Finople, attached by four rofes to the four sides
Loots's Nieuwe Tafel van alle de Scheeps Vlaggen des Gehele Water-Waerelds op Nieus Vermeerdert en Verbeeterdt (1650-1700)