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1501- Calle Las Damas [], first street in the New World, is constructed 1502- Santo Domingo becomes the home of all the future conquistadors (Hernán Cortés, Francisco Pizarro, Vasco Núñez de Balboa, Alonso de Ojeda, Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar, Juan Ponce de León, Rodrigo de Bastidas, Pedro de Alvarado, Lucas Vázquez de Ayllón, among others)
Captain-General of Santo Domingo. Resigned. Created 1st Marquess of Las Carreras in 1862. Felipe Ribero y Lemoine (1797–1873) 20 July 1862 22 October 1863 1 year, 94 days Captain-General of Santo Domingo. Carlos de Vargas y Cerveto (1803–1879) 23 October 1863 30 March 1864 159 days José de la Gándara y Navarro (1820–1885) 31 March 1864
The provinces as the second level of political and administrative division contain at least two municipalities. The Distrito Nacional, which is neither a municipality nor a province, consists of only one municipality, Santo Domingo (Constitution: "the city of Santo Domingo de Guzmán is the Distrito Nacional" [5]).
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]
First Spanish Capitancy 1492–1801 Governors and Viceroys of the Indies 1492–1500 Admiral Christopher Columbus, as Viceroy of the Indies 1496–1498 Bartolomeo Columbus, as Adelantado 1500–1502 Comendador Francisco de Bobadilla, as Governor of the Indies 1502–1509 Comendador Frey Nicolás de Ovando y Cáceres, as Governor of the Indies 1509–1518 Second Admiral Diego Columbus, as ...
Santo Domingo in Mexico City (since 1526) Church of Santo Domingo and Chapel of the Rosario in Puebla (since 1531) Porta Coeli Cathedral in Mexico City (1603-20th century) Iglesia de Santo Domingo (San Cristóbal de las Casas) in San Cristóbal de las Casas (since 1547)
The siege of Santo Domingo (1808) (Spanish: Sitio de Santo Domingo de 1808) was the second and final major battle of the Spanish reconquest of Santo Domingo and was fought between November 7, 1808 and July 11, 1809 at Santo Domingo, Captaincy General of Santo Domingo.
People in Columbus park, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Parque Colón, or Columbus Park, is the central square of the Ciudad Colonial historic district of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. In its center stands a statue of Christopher Columbus, in whose honor the square was renamed in 1887. Previously the square was known as Plaza Mayor.