1 Java (Javanese: Jawa), the most populous and fifth-largest island in Indonesia and the site of its capital, Jakarta. 2  East Java, also called Jawa Timur, a province on the Indonesian island of Java.3  Central Java, also called Jawa Tengah, a province on the Indonesian island of Java. East Java, also called Jawa Timur, a province on the Indonesian island of Java. 2  Central Java, also called Jawa Tengah, a province on the Indonesian island of Java. 3  West Java, also called Jawa Barat, a province on the Indonesian island of Java. 4  Jawa Dam (Jordan) , remains of water works dating from 3000 BC.
ancient history. n. 1. (Historical Terms) the history of the ancient world from the earliest known civilizations to the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in 476 a.d. 2. a recent event or fact sufficiently familiar to have lost its pertinence.
In historiography, ancient Rome is Roman civilization from the founding of the city of Rome in the 8th century BC to the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century AD, encompassing the Roman Kingdom, Roman Republic and Roman Empire until the fall of the western empire. The term is sometimes used to just refer to the kingdom and republic periods, excluding the subsequent empire. The civilization began as an Italic settlement in the Italian peninsula, dating from the 8th century BC, t