ANJER', or ANJIER!, a seaport of Java, on the straits of Sunda, 18 m.w. of Batavia. It is protected by a fort, and has some trade with passing vessels. Mails for Batavia are landed at A.
ANI017, a former province in the n.w. of France, of about 30S0 sq.m. in extent, now forming the department of Maine-et-Loire, and small parts of the departments of Indre et-Loire, Mayenne, and Sarthe. Its capital was Angers. The ancient inhabitants of A. were the Andegari, who long and resolutely resisted the Roman arms.—The male line of the counts of A., who took their name from it, having become extinct in 1060, their title and possessions passed by the female line to the powerful house of Gatinais; and from one of this family, Godfrey, count of A., the Platagenets. He conquered the greater part of Normandy; assumed the title of duke; and in 1127, married Matilda, the daughter of Henry I. of England, and widow of the emperor Henry V. Through her, his son inherited the English throne, which he ascended in 1154 as Henry II. A. now
became one of the possessions Of the kings of England; but in 1204, the French acquired it by fortune of war; and it was bestowed as a fief upon Philip, the son of Louis and afterwards upon his brother Charles, who became the founder of that house of A. which gave kings to Naples, Sicily, and Hungary. Charles II. of Naples gave A. to his daughter Margaret on her marriage with Charles of Valois, the son of Philip IV. Her son ascended the throne of France as Philip VI. in 1328. King John, in 1360, made A. a duchy, and gave it to his son Louis, and he succeeding to the crown of Naples, it remained a possession of the kings of Naples till the overthrow of that dynasty, when Rene II., the last of his family, was deprived of it by Louis XI., who permanently annexed it to the French crown in 1484. Since that time, it has merely given an honor iiiry title to princes of the royal family. The last who bore it was the grandson of Louis DIV., who became Philip V. of Spain.