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.
History[edit] Historians divide ancient Greek civilization into two eras, the Hellenic period (from around 900 BC to the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC), and the Hellenistic period (323 BC to 30 AD). During the earlier Hellenic period, substantial works of architecture began to appear around 600 BC.