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 the modern Greek school-books, ancient times is a period of about 1000 years (from the catastrophe of Mycenae until the conquest of the country by the Romans) that is divided in four periods, based on styles of art as much as culture and politics.The historical line starts with Greek Dark Ages (1100-800 BC).he history of Ancient Greece is often taken to end with the reign of Alexander the Great, who died in 323 BC. Subsequent events are described in Hellenistic Greece. Any history of Ancient Greece requires a cautionary note on sources.