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Santo Domingo, on eastern Hispaniola, under French control. The war between Spain and the Convention ended with the cession of the eastern part of the island of Santo Domingo to France, in exchange for the return of the peninsular territories occupied by the French army, as stipulated in the Treaty of Basel, signed on July 22, 1795, between both countries.
Spain had ruled the Dominican Republic's territory since Christopher Columbus claimed the island of Hispaniola for the Crown of Castile in 1492. In the 1795 Peace of Basel, Spain ceded the Dominican territory to France, which controlled the colony of Saint-Domingue on the western side of the island, but French control wasn't effective until Toussaint Louverture occupied Santo Domingo in 1801.
Castillian military victory until Papal mediation cease the conflict in a mission to unifiy all Iberian Christian Kingdoms against Almohads. Treaty of Tordehumos : Leonese political victory. Third Crusade (1189–92) Part of Crusades; Location: Middle East (Levant and Anatolia), Mediterranean Europe (Sicily, Iberia, Balkans) Kingdom of France
The republic maintained its independence except for a brief annexation by Spain from 1861 to 1865, after which the Second Dominican Republic was established. The country later experienced its first occupation by the United States from 1916 to 1924, followed by the establishment of the Third Dominican Republic .
In the second treaty, on 22 July, Spain ceded the Captaincy General of Santo Domingo to France in exchange for keeping Gipuzkoa.The French also came at night to sign the peace treaty between France and Spain in which Spain was represented by Domingo d'Yriarte, who signed the treaty in the mansion of Ochs, the Holsteinerhof.
In the history of the Dominican Republic, the period of Era de Francia ("Era of France", "French Era" or "French Period") occurred in 1795 when France acquired the Captaincy General of Santo Domingo, annexed it into Saint-Domingue and briefly came to acquire the whole island of Hispaniola by the way of the Treaty of Basel, allowing Spain to cede the eastern province as a consequence of the ...
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Spain is the Dominican Republic's third largest foreign investor (after the United States and Canada). In 2015, Spanish investments in the Dominican Republic totaled €926 million Euros. [15] Spanish multinational companies such as Mapfre, Telefónica and Inditex operate in the Dominican Republic. Embassy of the Dominican Republic in Madrid