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Cap-Haïtien (Kap Ayisyen; Cape Haitian) often referred to as Le Cap or Au Cap, is a commune of about 190,000 people on the north coast of Haiti and capital of the department of Nord. [1]

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Alfred Auguste Nemours

Alfred Auguste Nemours (13 July 1883 – 17 October 1955) was a Haitian General, diplomat and military historian.

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Arrondissements of Haiti

An arrondissement is a level of administrative division in Haiti.

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AS Capoise

Association Sportive Capoise (commonly referred to as AS Capoise or simply ASC) is a professional football club based in Cap-Haïtien, Haiti.

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Étienne Chavannes

Étienne Chavannes (Cap Haïtien, 1939) is a Haitian painter.

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Battle of Cap-Français

The Battle of Cap-Français was a naval engagement during the Seven Years' War fought between French and British forces outside the harbour of Cap-Français, Saint-Domingue (present-day Cap-Haïtien, Haiti) on 21 October 1757.

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Battle of Vertières

The Battle of Vertières (in Haitian Creole Batay Vètyè) was the last major battle of the Second War of Haitian Independence, and the final part of the Haitian Revolution under Jean Jacques Dessalines.

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Bois Caïman

Bois Caïman (Bwa Kayiman) is the site of the Vodou ceremony during which the first major slave insurrection of the Haitian Revolution was planned.

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Boulevard

A boulevard (French, from Bolwerk – bulwark, meaning bastion), often abbreviated Blvd, is a type of large road, usually running through a city.

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Cap-Haïtien

Cap-Haïtien (Kap Ayisyen; Cape Haitian) often referred to as Le Cap or Au Cap, is a commune of about 190,000 people on the north coast of Haiti and capital of the department of Nord.

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Cap-Haïtien Arrondissement

Cap-Haïtien (Kap Ayisyen) is an arrondissement in the Nord department of Haiti and is the second important city of the country.

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Cap-Haïtien International Airport

Cap-Haïtien International Airport is an airport serving Cap-Haïtien, a city in Nord, Haiti.

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Cécile Fatiman

Cécile Fatiman (fl. 1791), was a Haitian vodou priestess, a mambo (Voodoo).

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Chile

Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a South American country occupying a long, narrow strip of land between the Andes to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west.

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Citadelle Laferrière

The Citadelle Laferrière or, Citadelle Henry Christophe, or simply the Citadelle (Citadel), is a large mountaintop fortress in Nord, Haiti, located on top of the mountain Bonnet a L’Eveque, approximately south of the city of Cap-Haïtien, southwest of the Three Bays Protected Area, and uphill from the town of Milot.

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Communal section

The communal section (section communale, formerly section rurale) is the smallest administrative division in Haiti.

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Country

A country is a region that is identified as a distinct national entity in political geography.

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Department (country subdivision)

A department is an administrative or political subdivision in many countries.

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Departments of Haiti

In the administrative divisions of Haiti, the department (French: département) is the first of four levels of government.

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Donatien-Marie-Joseph de Vimeur, vicomte de Rochambeau

Donatien-Marie-Joseph de Vimeur, vicomte de Rochambeau (7 April 1755 – 20 October 1813) was a French soldier, the son of Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau.

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Dutty Boukman

Dutty Boukman (Also known as "Boukman Dutty") (died 7 November 1791) was an early leader of the Haitian Revolution, enslaved in Jamaica and later in Haiti.

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Eastern Time Zone

The Eastern Time Zone (ET) is a time zone encompassing 17 U.S. states in the eastern part of the contiguous United States, parts of eastern Canada, the state of Quintana Roo in Mexico, Panama in Central America, and the Caribbean Islands.

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Ficus

Ficus is a genus of about 850 species of woody trees, shrubs, vines, epiphytes and hemiepiphytes in the family Moraceae.

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Football Inter Club Association

Football Inter Club Association; (commonly referred to as FICA) is a professional football club based in Cap-Haïtien, Haiti.

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Fortification

A fortification is a military construction or building designed for the defense of territories in warfare; and is also used to solidify rule in a region during peacetime.

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Free people of color

In the context of the history of slavery in the Americas, free people of color (French: gens de couleur libres, Spanish: gente libre de color) were people of mixed African and European descent who were not enslaved.

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Gingerbread house

A gingerbread house is a novelty confectionery shaped like a building that is made of cookie dough, cut and baked into appropriate components like walls and roofing.

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Gonaïves

Gonaïves (Gonayiv) is a commune in northern Haiti, and the capital of the Artibonite department of Haiti.

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Haiti

Haiti (Haïti; Ayiti), officially the Republic of Haiti and formerly called Hayti, is a sovereign state located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean Sea.

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Haitian Revolution

The Haitian Revolution (Révolution haïtienne) was a successful anti-slavery and anti-colonial insurrection by self-liberated slaves against French colonial rule in Saint-Domingue, now the sovereign nation of Haiti.

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Haitian Vodou

Haitian Vodou (also written as Vaudou; known commonly as Voodoo, sometimes as Vodun, Vodoun, Vodu, or Vaudoux) is a syncretic religion practiced chiefly in Haiti and the Haitian diaspora.

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Hôpital Universitaire Justinien

Hôpital Universitaire Justinien is the main hospital in the second largest city in Haiti, Cap-Haïtien.

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Henri Christophe

Henry Christophe (6 October 1767 – 8 October 1820) was a former slave of Bambara ethnicity in West Africa, and perhaps of Igbo descent, and key leader in the Haitian Revolution, which succeeded in gaining independence from France in 1804.

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Hinche

Hinche (Ench; Hincha) is a commune in the Centre department Haiti.

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Hispaniola

Hispaniola (Spanish: La Española; Latin and French: Hispaniola; Haitian Creole: Ispayola; Taíno: Haiti) is an island in the Caribbean island group, the Greater Antilles.

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Indigenous peoples

Indigenous peoples, also known as first peoples, aboriginal peoples or native peoples, are ethnic groups who are the pre-colonial original inhabitants of a given region, in contrast to groups that have settled, occupied or colonized the area more recently.

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Jean-Bertrand Aristide

Jean-Bertrand Aristide (born 15 July 1953) is a former Haitian priest and politician who became Haiti's first democratically elected president.

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Jean-Jacques Dessalines

Jean-Jacques Dessalines (Haitian Creole: Jan-Jak Desalin;; 20 September 1758 – 17 October 1806) was a leader of the Haitian Revolution and the first ruler of an independent Haiti under the 1805 constitution.

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Kingdom of Haiti

The Northern Kingdom of Haiti (French: Royaume d'Haïti, Haitian Creole: Ini an Ayiti) was the state established by Henri Christophe on 28 March 1811 when he was self-proclaimed as King Henri I after having previously ruled as president.

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La Navidad

La Navidad was a settlement that Christopher Columbus and his men established in present-day Haiti in 1492 from the remains of the Spanish ship, the Santa María.

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Labadee

Labadee (Labadie) is a port located on the northern coast of Haiti within the arrondissement of Cap-Haïtien in the Nord department.

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Leonel Saint-Preux

Leonel Saint-Preux (born March 12, 1985, in Cap-Haïtien) is a Haitian footballer who plays as a forward for Abahani Limited (Chittagong) in the Bangladesh League.

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Lewis Page Mercier

Reverend Lewis Page Mercier (9 January 1820 – 2 November 1875) is known today as the translator, along with Eleanor Elizabeth King, of two of the best known novels of Jules Verne: Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Seas and From the Earth to the Moon, and a Trip Around It.

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Limonade

Limonade (Limonad) is a commune in the Cap-Haïtien Arrondissement, in the Nord department of Haiti.

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List of communes of Haiti

The commune is the third-level divisions of Haiti.

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Mambo (Vodou)

Mambo is the term for a female (as opposed to the Houngan, or male) High Priest in the Vodou religion in Haiti.

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Maroon (people)

Maroons were Africans who had escaped from slavery in the Americas and mixed with the indigenous peoples of the Americas, and formed independent settlements.

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Mathias Pierre

Mathias Pierre (born 3 April 1967 in Haiti), is an entrepreneur and an author.

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Mayor

In many countries, a mayor (from the Latin maior, meaning "bigger") is the highest-ranking official in a municipal government such as that of a city or a town.

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Milot, Haiti

Milot is a commune in the Nord department of Haiti, 12 miles south of Cap-Haïtien.

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Mirebalais

Mirebalais is a commune in the Centre department of Haiti, approximately 60 km northeast of Port-au-Prince on National Road 3.

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Nepal

Nepal (नेपाल), officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal (सङ्घीय लोकतान्त्रिक गणतन्त्र नेपाल), is a landlocked country in South Asia located mainly in the Himalayas but also includes parts of the Indo-Gangetic Plain.

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New Orleans

New Orleans (. Merriam-Webster.; La Nouvelle-Orléans) is a major United States port and the largest city and metropolitan area in the state of Louisiana.

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Nord (Haitian department)

Nord (Nò, North) is one of the ten departments of Haiti.

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Old San Juan

Old San Juan (Viejo San Juan) is a barrio of San Juan, Puerto Rico, located on the Isleta de San Juan.

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Parc Saint-Victor

Parc Saint-Victor is a football stadium in Cap-Haïtien, Haiti.

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Pétion-Ville

Pétion-Ville is a commune and a suburb of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, in the hills east and separate from the city itself on the northern hills of the Massif de la Selle.

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Philomé Obin

Philomé Obin (July 20, 1892 – August 6, 1986) was a Haitian painter.

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Plantation

A plantation is a large-scale farm that specializes in cash crops.

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Port

A port is a maritime commercial facility which may comprise one or more wharves where ships may dock to load and discharge passengers and cargo.

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Port international du Cap-Haïtien

The Port international du Cap-Haïtien is the seaport in Cap-Haïtien Haiti's second largest city.

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Port-au-Prince

Port-au-Prince (Pòtoprens) is the capital and most populous city of Haiti.

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Portland, Maine

Portland is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Maine, with a population of 67,067 as of 2017.

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Radio Lumière

Radio Lumière is a religious radio station that broadcasts gospel music 24/7 from Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

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Real Hope FA

Real Hope FA is a professional football club based in Cap-Haïtien, Haiti.

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Request for tender

A request for tenders (RFT) is a formal, structured invitation to suppliers to submit a bid to supply products or services.

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Royal Caribbean International

Royal Caribbean International is a cruise line brand founded in Norway and based in Miami, Florida, United States.

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Saint-Domingue

Saint-Domingue was a French colony on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola from 1659 to 1804.

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Saint-Marc

Saint-Marc (Sen Mak) is a commune in western Haiti in Artibonite.

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Salsa d'Haïti

SALSA d'Haïti is a Haitian airline headquartered at Toussaint Louverture International Airport in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

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Sans-Souci Palace

The Sans-Souci Palace is a palace in Haiti in the town of Milot, Nord, located approximately northeast of the Citadelle Laferrière, and southwest of the Three Bays Protected Area.

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Storming of the Bastille

The Storming of the Bastille (Prise de la Bastille) occurred in Paris, France, on the afternoon of 14 July 1789.

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Sugarcane

Sugarcane, or sugar cane, are several species of tall perennial true grasses of the genus Saccharum, tribe Andropogoneae, native to the warm temperate to tropical regions of South and Southeast Asia, Polynesia and Melanesia, and used for sugar production.

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Tap tap

Tap taps are gaily painted buses or pick-up trucks traveladventures.org that serve as share taxis in Haiti.

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Tyrone Edmond

Tyrone Edmond (born Enoch Edmond in Cap-Haïtien, Haiti) is a Haitian-born model.

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United Nations

The United Nations (UN) is an intergovernmental organization tasked to promote international cooperation and to create and maintain international order.

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United Nations Stabilisation Mission in Haiti

The United Nations Stabilization Mission In Haiti (UNSTAMIH) (Mission des Nations Unies pour la stabilisation en Haïti), also known as MINUSTAH, an acronym of the French name, was a United Nations peacekeeping mission in Haiti that was in operation from 2004 to 2017.

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Université d'État d'Haïti, Campus Henri Christophe de Limonade

Université d'Etat d'Haïti, Campus Roi Henri Christophe is a university campus located in Limonade, northern Haiti.

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University and college admission

University admission or college admission is the process through which students enter tertiary education at universities and colleges.

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Uruguay

Uruguay, officially the Oriental Republic of Uruguay (República Oriental del Uruguay), is a sovereign state in the southeastern region of South America.

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World Heritage site

A World Heritage site is a landmark or area which is selected by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) as having cultural, historical, scientific or other form of significance, and is legally protected by international treaties.

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Zip-line

A zipline (or zip-line, zipline, Sypline, zip wire, aerial runway, aerial ropeslide, death slide, flying fox, or foefie slide in South Africa) consists of a pulley suspended on a cable, usually made of stainless steel, mounted on a slope.

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2010 Haiti earthquake

The 2010 Haiti earthquake (Séisme de 2010 à Haïti; Tranblemanntè 12 janvye 2010 nan peyi Ayiti) was a catastrophic magnitude 7.0 Mw earthquake, with an epicenter near the town of Léogâne (Ouest), approximately west of Port-au-Prince, Haiti's capital.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cap-Haïtien

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