It shares Hispaniola island with the Dominican Rep.........................Hispaniola........like Espana..........Spain...................Espana is Spanish for Spain.........................the French took it from the Spanish........................so much to this code.................

History of Haiti - Wikipedia

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The recorded history of Haiti began on 5 December 1492 when the European navigator ... Columbus promptly claimed the island for the Spanish Crown, naming it La Isla ... Haiti became one of the wealthiest of France's colonies, producing vast ..... The French National Convention, the first elected Assembly of the First ...

Hispaniola - Wikipedia

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Hispaniola is the 22nd-largest island in the world, located in the Caribbean island group, the ... Hispaniola is the site of the first permanent European settlement in the ... refer, respectively, to the colonies that became Haiti and the Dominican Republic. .... In the second 1795 Treaty of Basel (July 22), Spain ceded the eastern ...

Haiti - 1492-1697 - Spanish Colonization - GlobalSecurity.org

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Feb 8, 2011 - Hispaniola, or Santo Domingo, as it became known under Spanish dominion, became the first outpost of the Spanish Empire. The initial ...

The First Colony - LatinAmericanStudies.org

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The island of Hispaniola (La Isla Española) was the first New World colony settled ... to plant colonies along the north coast of Hispaniola, Spain's first permanent .... Tortue), off the northwest coast of present-day Haiti, to settle on Hispaniola in ...