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Francisco del Rosario Sánchez (March 9, 1817 – July 4, 1861) was a Dominican revolutionary, politician, and former president of the Dominican Republic.He is considered by Dominicans as the second prominent leader of the Dominican War of Independence, after Juan Pablo Duarte and before Matías Ramón Mella.
Santo Domingo (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈsanto ðoˈmiŋɡo] meaning "Saint Dominic" but verbatim "Holy Sunday"), once known as Santo Domingo de Guzmán, known as Ciudad Trujillo between 1936 and 1961, is the capital and largest city of the Dominican Republic and the largest metropolitan area in the Caribbean by population. [7]
Duarte was born on January 26, 1813 in Santo Domingo, Captaincy General of Santo Domingo [1] during the period commonly called España Boba. In his memoirs, La Trinitaria member José María Serra de Castro [ es ] described Duarte as a man with a rosy complexion, sharp features, blue eyes , and a golden hair that contrasted with his thick, dark ...
Mucho más que una carga al machete: impacto de la Guerra de la Restauración en Cuba. Clío, no. 189, Santo Domingo, 2015 (Academia Dominicana de la Historia). Alfau Durán, Vetilio. Por la verdad histórica. Planes que precedieron al 27 de febrero de 1844. Clío, no. 133, Santo Domingo, 1977 (Academia Dominicana de la Historia). Báez ...
The Dominican Republic is a North American country located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles of the Caribbean Sea in the North Atlantic Ocean.It shares a maritime border with Puerto Rico to the east and a land border with Haiti to the west, occupying the eastern five-eighths of Hispaniola which, along with Saint Martin, is one of only two islands in the Caribbean shared by ...
January 1: New Year's Day, national holiday [2] January 6: Epiphany (Dia de Los Reyes), national holiday [2] January 21: Our Lady of High Grace, national holiday [3] January 26: Duarte's Birthday, national holiday [2]
Santo Domingo was initially the political and cultural hub of Spanish presence in the new world, but after a few decades started to decline as the Spaniards focused their attention more on the mainland after conquering Mexico, Peru, and other regions of Latin America. Ciudad Colonial nevertheless remained an important historical site.
Three days each June are set aside for the Latin Music Festival in Santo Domingo. Both local and international Latin musicians and bands take the stage. During the last week of July and first week of August Santo Domingo hosts some of the world's top merengue bands at the Festival del Merengue. Other events during the two-week-long party ...