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José Gabriel García
José Gabriel García (January 13, 1834 – January 19, 1910) was a People of the Dominican Republic, Dominican army officer, historian, politician, journalist and publisher. He is regarded as a cultural pioneer as well as the "Father of Dominican History." He was the author of "Compendium of History of Santo Domingo", published in four volumes in 1867, 1887, 1900 and 1906 respectively, and made numerous contributions in the fields of culture, literature and education. He was the founder of the first Dominican university, the Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo, Professional Institute (today Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo, University of Santo Domingo), co-founder of the country's first private printing and publishing company, Jose Gabriel García#Printing and Publishing Company García Hermanos, Garcia Hermanos, and founder of the country's first cultural society, "Jose Gabriel García#Los Amantes de las Letras Society, Los Amantes de las Letras" ("Lovers of the Letters ...
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Santo Domingo
Santo Domingo, formerly known as Santo Domingo de Guzmán, is the capital and largest city of the Dominican Republic and the List of metropolitan areas in the Caribbean, largest metropolitan area in the Caribbean by population. the Distrito Nacional, city center had a population of 1,029,110 while its Metropolitan area, the Greater Santo Domingo, had a population of 4,274,651. The city is coterminous with the boundaries of the Distrito Nacional (D.N.), itself bordered on three sides by Santo Domingo Province. Santo Domingo was founded in 1496 by the Spanish Empire and is the oldest continuously inhabited European colonization of the Americas, European settlement in the Americas. It was the first seat of Spanish colonial rule in the New World, the Captaincy General of Santo Domingo. Santo Domingo is the site of the first university, cathedral, castle, monastery, and fortress in the New World. The city's Ciudad Colonial (Santo Domingo), Colonial Zone was declared as a World Herit ...
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Tomás (Toso) Ramírez Carvajal
Tomás may refer to: * Tomás (given name) * Tomás (surname) Tomás is a Spanish, Portuguese, or Irish surname, equivalent of '' Thomas''. It may refer to: * Antonio Tomás (born 1985), professional Spanish footballer * Belarmino Tomás (1892–1950), Asturian trade unionist and socialist politician * ...
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Annexation Of The Dominican Republic To Spain
The Annexation of the Dominican Republic to Spain (Spanish: ''Anexión de la República Dominicana a España'') or Reintegration of Santo Domingo (''Reintegración de Santo Domingo'') was a five-year period in 1861–1865 during which the Dominican Republic returned to the sovereignty of Spain, following the request of Dominican dictator Pedro Santana.Bowen, W. H. (2011). ''Spain and the American Civil War''. University of Missouri Press. 208 pages. The period coincided with the American Civil War, during which the United States was unable to enforce the Monroe Doctrine. After fighting an insurgency of two years in the Dominican Restoration War, Spain left the country in 1865. Dominicans that sided with Spain left for Spanish Cuba and Puerto Rico, and played a decisive role in igniting the independence struggle in these islands. Previous annexations Spain had ruled the Dominican Republic's territory since Christopher Columbus claimed the island of Hispaniola for the Crown of Cast ...
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Pedro Santana
Pedro Santana y Familias, 1st Marquess of Las Carreras (June 29, 1801June 14, 1864) was a Dominican soldier and politician who served three times as the president of the First Dominican Republic (1844–1861) and was the first governor-general during the period of annexation of the Dominican Republic to Spain (1861–1865), accomplished at Santana's request. Called " Libertador de la Patria" in life, Santana is today considered a dictator because of his authoritarian rule. Santana was one of the signatories of the Manifesto of January 16, 1844 that proclaimed Dominican independence on February 27, 1844. He would assume the leadership of the southern expeditionary army and gain prominence for his victory in the Battle of Azua. He led a coup d'état against the Central Governing Board and was named president on a provisional basis. During his government, the first constitution of the Dominican Republic was promulgated, and he was designated the first constitutional president ...
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Dominican Army
The Dominican Army (), is one of the three branches of the Armed Forces of the Dominican Republic, together with the Dominican Navy, Navy and the Dominican Air Force, Air Force. The Dominican army with 28,750 active duty personnel consists of six infantry brigades, a combat support brigade, a combat service support brigade and the air cavalry squadron. History The island of Hispaniola was an important enclave throughout the colonial period and hosted the Court of Santo Domingo, the first in America (1511), whose jurisdiction extended over the entire Caribbean. In 1697, by the Peace of Ryswick, it was divided into two communities: the Spanish in the eastern area and the French in the western; remaining this way until 1795, with the transfer of sovereignty over the west of the island to France by the Peace of Basel, Treaty of Basel, Spanish sovereignty being recovered in 1809. Years layer, it was proclaimed independent in 1821, occupied by Haiti in 1822, liberated again in 1844, a ...
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Juan Vicente Moscoso
Dr. Juan Vicente Moscoco Carvajal (June 3, 1777 – September 29, 1837), nicknamed the "Dominican Socrates", was a lawyer, politician, educator and assessor of the royal artillery of Santo Domingo. He was mayor of Santo Domingo during the period of España Boba ("Foolish Spain"), among other public offices. He obtained a doctorate of canon law and civic law from the University of Santo Tomas de Aquino in 1791. Role as educator and independentist He was vice rector in 1817 and rector in 1818 of the University Santo Tomas de Aquino after its reopening by Jose Nunez de Caceres in 1815. When the university was closed by the Haitian authorities, he became an independent instructor at the plazas of the city of Santo Domingo using the Socratic method as his method of teaching which gave him the name of the ''"Dominican Socrates"''. The founding father of the Dominican Republic, Juan Pablo Duarte, was his disciple and obtained his superior studies (latin, philosophy and law) from him ...
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Juan Pablo Duarte
Juan Pablo Duarte y Díez (January 26, 1813 – July 15, 1876) was a Dominican military leader, writer, activist, and nationalist politician who was the foremost of the Founding Fathers of the Dominican Republic and bears the title of Father of the Nation. As one of the most celebrated figures in Dominican history, Duarte is considered a folk hero and revolutionary visionary in the modern Dominican Republic, who along with military generals Ramón Matías Mella and Francisco del Rosario Sánchez, organized and promoted La Trinitaria, a secret society that eventually led to the Dominican revolt and independence from Haitian rule in 1844 and the start of the Dominican War of Independence. Born into a middle-upper class family in 1813, his childhood was engulfed in several administrative changes in Santo Domingo. He was a toddler during the years of España Boba, which came to an end with the proclamation of José Núñez de Cáceres, who declared the first independence of ...
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La Trinitaria (Dominican Republic)
La Trinitaria (, ''The Trinity'') was a secret society founded in 1838 in what today is known as Arzobispo Nouel Street, across from the "Del Carmen's Church" in the then occupied Santo Domingo, the current capital of the Dominican Republic. The founder, Juan Pablo Duarte, and a group of like minded young people, led the struggle to establish the Dominican Republic as a free, sovereign, and independent nation in the 19th century. Their main goal was to protect their newly liberated country from all foreign invasion. They helped bring about the end of the Haitian occupation of Santo Domingo from 1822 to 1844. Acting in three-person cells and communicating through a complex system of passwords and codes, La Trinitaria focused on a three-pronged message of democracy, representative government, and independence for the Dominican Republic. While they focused on radical ideals, they funneled those ideals through art – members of the group would create intricate theater acts that th ...
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