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BATAVA

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(Castrum underflod), a citadel of Venice, so called from the Cohors Batava, in garrison under the commander in Rhetia: now Passau: being first called Batav, from the Batavi; then Bassau: and Passau; situated in Bavaria, at the confluence of the Danube, Inn, and Ills. See PASSAU.