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1. 655 relations: Aída Cartagena Portalatín, Acculturation, Administrative division, Adrián Beltré, African Americans, African cuisine, Afro-Dominicans, Al Horford, Albert Pujols, Alcázar de Colón, Alfonso Soriano, Allies of World War II, Alto Velo Island, América Móvil, American crocodile, Americans, Americas, Anacaona, Antigua, Antilles, Antonio Guzmán Fernández, Arabic, Arabs, Arawakan languages, Archaeology (magazine), Area codes 809, 829, and 849, Armed Forces of the Dominican Republic, Artibonite River, Astronomer, Atlantic Ocean, Attack on Pearl Harbor, Ayuntamiento, Azua Province, Azua, Dominican Republic, Bachata (music), Baháʼí Faith, Bahía de las Águilas, Bajos de Haina, Balance of trade, Baní, Banco Intercontinental, Baoruco Mountain Range, Baoruco Province, Barahona Province, Barahona, Dominican Republic, Baroque architecture, Bartholomew Columbus, Bartolo Colón, Baseball, Bat, ... Expand index (605 more) » « Shrink index

2. 1492 establishments in the Spanish West Indies
3. 1821 establishments in the Dominican Republic
4. 1822 establishments in Haiti
5. 1844 disestablishments in Haiti
6. 1844 establishments in North America
7. 1861 establishments in the Spanish West Indies
8. 1865 disestablishments in the Spanish West Indies
9. Countries in North America
10. Countries in the Caribbean
11. Greater Antilles
12. Spanish-speaking countries and territories
13. States and territories established in 1844

Aída Cartagena Portalatín

Aída Cartagena Portalatín (June 18, 1918 – June 3, 1994) was a Dominican poet, fiction writer, and essayist who was an influential part of the Poesía Sorprendida movement.

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Acculturation

Acculturation is a process of social, psychological, and cultural change that stems from the balancing of two cultures while adapting to the prevailing culture of the society.

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Administrative division

Administrative divisions (also administrative units, administrative regions, #-level subdivisions, subnational entities, or constituent states, as well as many similar generic terms) are geographical areas into which a particular independent sovereign state is divided.

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Adrián Beltré

Adrián Beltré Pérez (born April 7, 1979) is a Dominican former professional baseball third baseman.

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African Americans

African Americans, also known as Black Americans or Afro-Americans, are an ethnic group consisting of Americans with partial or total ancestry from any of the Black racial groups of Africa.

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African cuisine

African cuisine is a staple of the continent's culture, and its history is entwined with the story of the native people of Africa.

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Afro-Dominicans

Afro-Dominicans (also referred to as African-Dominicans or Black Dominicans; Afro-Dominicanos/Dominicanos Africanos, Dominicanos negros) are Dominicans of predominant or full Black African ancestry.

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Al Horford

Alfred Joel Horford Reynoso (born June 3, 1986), nicknamed "Big Al", is a Dominican professional basketball player for the Boston Celtics of the National Basketball Association (NBA).

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Albert Pujols

José Alberto Pujols Alcántara (born January 16, 1980) is a Dominican-American former professional baseball first baseman and designated hitter.

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Alcázar de Colón

The Alcázar de Colón, or Columbus Alcazar is the first fortified European palace built in the Americas.

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Alfonso Soriano

Alfonso Guilleard Soriano (born January 7, 1976) is a Dominican former professional baseball left fielder and second baseman.

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Allies of World War II

The Allies, formally referred to as the United Nations from 1942, were an international military coalition formed during World War II (1939–1945) to oppose the Axis powers.

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Alto Velo Island

Alto Velo Island (Isla Alto Velo; also called Alta Vela Island) is a small uninhabited island south of the island of Hispaniola in the Caribbean Sea.

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América Móvil

América Móvil, S.A.B. de C.V. is a Mexican telecommunications corporation headquartered in Mexico City, Mexico.

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American crocodile

The American crocodile (Crocodylus acutus) is a species of crocodilian found in the Neotropics.

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Americans

Americans are the citizens and nationals of the United States.

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Americas

The Americas, sometimes collectively called America, are a landmass comprising the totality of North America and South America.

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Anacaona

Anacaona (1474?–1504), or Golden Flower, was a Taíno cacica, or female cacique (chief), religious expert, poet and composer born in Xaragua.

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Antigua

Antigua, also known as Waladli or Wadadli by the local population, is an island in the Lesser Antilles.

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Antilles

The Antilles is an archipelago bordered by the Caribbean Sea to the south and west, the Gulf of Mexico to the northwest, and the Atlantic Ocean to the north and east. Dominican Republic and Antilles are Greater Antilles.

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Antonio Guzmán Fernández

Silvestre Antonio Guzmán Fernández (February 12, 1911 – July 4, 1982), best known as Antonio Guzmán, was a Dominican businessman and a politician.

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Arabic

Arabic (اَلْعَرَبِيَّةُ, or عَرَبِيّ, or) is a Central Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family spoken primarily in the Arab world.

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Arabs

The Arabs (عَرَب, DIN 31635:, Arabic pronunciation), also known as the Arab people (الشَّعْبَ الْعَرَبِيّ), are an ethnic group mainly inhabiting the Arab world in West Asia and North Africa.

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Arawakan languages

Arawakan (Arahuacan, Maipuran Arawakan, "mainstream" Arawakan, Arawakan proper), also known as Maipurean (also Maipuran, Maipureano, Maipúre), is a language family that developed among ancient indigenous peoples in South America.

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Archaeology (magazine)

Archaeology is a bimonthly magazine for the general public, published by the Archaeological Institute of America.

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Area codes 809, 829, and 849

Area codes 809, 829, and 849 are telephone area codes in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) for the Dominican Republic.

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Armed Forces of the Dominican Republic

The Dominican Armed Forces, also referred as Armed Forces of the Dominican Republic (Fuerzas Armadas de la República Dominicana), It is the State body that represents all of the Dominican military bodies.

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Artibonite River

The Artibonite River (French: Fleuve Artibonite; Spanish: Río Artibonito; Haitian Creole: Latibonit) is the longest river in Haiti, and the longest on the island of Hispaniola.

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Astronomer

An astronomer is a scientist in the field of astronomy who focuses their studies on a specific question or field outside the scope of Earth.

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Atlantic Ocean

The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, with an area of about.

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Attack on Pearl Harbor

The attack on Pearl HarborAlso known as the Battle of Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service on the American naval base at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Hawaii, in the United States, just before 8:00a.m. (local time) on Sunday, December 7, 1941.

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Ayuntamiento

AyuntamientoIn other languages of Spain.

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Azua Province

Azua is a province which is collectively one of the thirty-two provinces of the Dominican Republic. Dominican Republic and Azua Province are states and territories established in 1844.

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Azua, Dominican Republic

Azua de Compostela, also known simply as Azua, is a city, municipality (municipio) and capital of Azua Province in the southern region of Dominican Republic.

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Bachata (music)

Bachata is a genre of music that originated in the Dominican Republic in the 20th century.

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Baháʼí Faith

The Baháʼí Faith is a religion founded in the 19th century that teaches the essential worth of all religions and the unity of all people.

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Bahía de las Águilas

Bahía de las Águilas (literally "Eagles’ Bay"), is an beach along the southwestern coast of the Dominican Republic in the province of Pedernales near the southernmost part of the border with Haiti.

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Bajos de Haina

Bajos de Haina (Standard), mostly known simply as Haina, is a town and municipality in the San Cristóbal Province, of the Dominican Republic.

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Balance of trade

Balance of trade is the difference between the monetary value of a nation's exports and imports over a certain time period.

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Baní

Baní is a capital town of the Peravia Province, Dominican Republic.

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Banco Intercontinental

Banco Intercontinental (or BANINTER) was the second largest privately held commercial bank in the Dominican Republic before collapsing in 2003 in a fraud tied to political corruption.

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Baoruco Mountain Range

The Bahoruco Mountain Range—Sierra de Bahoruco (or Sierra de Bahoruco) is a mountain range located in the far southwestern region of the Dominican Republic.

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Baoruco Province

Baoruco, alternatively spelt Bahoruco, is a province of the Dominican Republic located in the southwest of the country, part of the Enriquillo Region, along with the provinces of Barahona, Independencia and Pedernales.

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Barahona Province

Barahona is a province of the Dominican Republic.

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Barahona, Dominican Republic

Barahona, also known as Santa Cruz de Barahona, is the main city of the Barahona Province, in the southwest of the Dominican Republic.

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Baroque architecture

Baroque architecture is a highly decorative and theatrical style which appeared in Italy in the early 17th century and gradually spread across Europe.

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Bartholomew Columbus

Bartholomew Columbus (Bertomê Corombo; Bartolomeu Colombo; Bartolomé Colón; Bartolomeo Colombo; – 12 August 1515) was an Italian explorer from the Republic of Genoa and the younger brother of Christopher Columbus. Dominican Republic and Bartholomew Columbus are Spanish West Indies.

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Bartolo Colón

Bartolo Colón (born May 24, 1973), nicknamed "Big Sexy", is a Dominican-American professional baseball pitcher for the Karachi Monarchs of Baseball United.

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Baseball

Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each, taking turns batting and fielding.

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Bat

Bats are flying mammals of the order Chiroptera.

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Batey (sugar workers' town)

A batey (plural: bateyes) is a settlement around a sugar mill.

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Battle of Las Carreras

The Battle of Las Carreras (Spanish: Batalla de Las Carreras) was a major battle during the years after the Dominican War of Independence and was fought on the 21–22 April 1849, nearby Baní, Peravia Province.

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BBC News

BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs in the UK and around the world.

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Beata

Beata or Beate is a female given name or Portuguese surname that occurs in several cultures and languages, including Italian, German, Polish, and Swedish, and which is derived from the Latin beatus, meaning "blessed".

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Billion

Billion is a word for a large number, and it has two distinct definitions.

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BioScience

BioScience is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal that is published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the American Institute of Biological Sciences.

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Birth rate

Birth rate, also known as natality, is the total number of live human births per 1,000 population for a given period divided by the length of the period in years.

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Bizcocho Dominicano

Bizcocho Dominicano, or Dominican cake, is a type of cake popularized by bakeries out of the Dominican Republic of the island of Hispaniola.

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Boca Chica

Boca Chica is a municipality (municipio) of the Santo Domingo province in the Dominican Republic.

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Bolero

Bolero is a genre of song which originated in eastern Cuba in the late 19th century as part of the trova tradition.

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Bolsa de Valores de la República Dominicana

Bolsa de Valores de la República Dominicana (Stock Market of the Dominican Republic, BVRD) is the only stock exchange in the Dominican Republic, basically performing a transaction regulation function.

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Bonao

Bonao is a city in the Cibao region of Dominican Republic.

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Boxing

Boxing is a combat sport and martial art.

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Brass instrument

A brass instrument is a musical instrument that produces sound by sympathetic vibration of air in a tubular resonator in sympathy with the vibration of the player's lips.

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British people

British people or Britons, also known colloquially as Brits, are the citizens of the United Kingdom, the British Overseas Territories, and the Crown dependencies.

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Buddhism

Buddhism, also known as Buddha Dharma and Dharmavinaya, is an Indian religion and philosophical tradition based on teachings attributed to the Buddha, a wandering teacher who lived in the 6th or 5th century BCE.

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Buenaventura Báez

Ramón Buenaventura Báez Méndez (July 14, 1812March 14, 1884), was a Dominican conservative politician and military figure.

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Bulgur

Bulgur (bulgur;; groats), or burghul (burġul), is a cracked wheat foodstuff found in South Asian cuisine and West Asian cuisine.

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Cable Internet access

In telecommunications, cable Internet access, shortened to cable Internet, is a form of broadband internet access which uses the same infrastructure as cable television.

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Canadian dollar

The Canadian dollar (symbol: $; code: CAD; dollar canadien) is the currency of Canada.

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Canarian Spanish

Canarian Spanish or Canary Island Spanish (Spanish terms in descending order of frequency: español de Canarias, español canario, habla canaria, or dialecto canario) is a variant of standard Spanish spoken in the Canary Islands by the Canary Islanders.

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Caonabo

Caonabo (died 1496) was a Taíno cacique (chieftain) of Hispaniola at the time of Christopher Columbus's arrival to the island.

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Captaincy General of Santo Domingo

The Captaincy General of Santo Domingo (Capitanía General de Santo Domingo) was the first Capitancy in the New World, established by Spain in 1492 on the island of Hispaniola. The Capitancy, under the jurisdiction of the Real Audiencia of Santo Domingo, was granted administrative powers over the Spanish possessions in the Caribbean and most of its mainland coasts, making Santo Domingo the principal political entity of the early colonial period. Dominican Republic and Captaincy General of Santo Domingo are former colonies in North America, Spanish West Indies and Spanish-speaking countries and territories.

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Caribbean

The Caribbean (el Caribe; les Caraïbes; de Caraïben) is a subregion of the Americas that includes the Caribbean Sea and its islands, some of which are surrounded by the Caribbean Sea and some of which border both the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean; the nearby coastal areas on the mainland are sometimes also included in the region.

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Caribbean Community

The Caribbean Community (CARICOM or CC) is an intergovernmental organisation that is a political and economic union of 15 member states (14 nation-states and one dependency) and five associated members throughout the Americas, The Caribbean and Atlantic Ocean.

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Caribbean Sea

The Caribbean Sea is a sea of the Atlantic Ocean in the tropics of the Western Hemisphere.

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CARIFORUM

The Caribbean Forum (CARIFORUM) is a subgroup of the Organisation of African, Caribbean and Pacific States and serves as a base for economic dialogue with the European Union.

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Carlos Cruz (boxer)

Carlos Teo Rosario Cruz (November 4, 1937 – February 15, 1970) was a boxer from the Dominican Republic.

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Carlos Morales Troncoso

Carlos Morales Troncoso (29 September 1940 – 25 October 2014) was Vice President of the Dominican Republic from 1986 to 1994 and its foreign minister from 2004 to 2014.

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Carlos Slim

Carlos Slim Helú (born 28 January 1940) is a Mexican business magnate, investor, and philanthropist.

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Casa de Campo, Dominican Republic

Casa de Campo (Spanish for "Country House") is a Ponderosa-style tropical seaside residential community in La Romana on the southeast coast of the Dominican Republic.

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Cassava

Manihot esculenta, commonly called cassava, manioc,--> or yuca (among numerous regional names), is a woody shrub of the spurge family, Euphorbiaceae, native to South America, from Brazil, Paraguay and parts of the Andes.

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Catalina Island (Dominican Republic)

Catalina Island or Isla Catalina is a tropical island located 1.5 miles from the mainland on the south-east corner of the Dominican Republic, near La Altagracia and La Romana.

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Cathedral of Santo Domingo

The Cathedral of Santa María la Menor in the Colonial City of Santo Domingo is dedicated to St.

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Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.28 to 1.39 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2024.

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Catholic Church in the Dominican Republic

The Catholic Church in the Dominican Republic is part of the worldwide Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the Pope in Rome.

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Caudillo

A caudillo (cabdillo, from Latin capitellum, diminutive of caput "head") is a type of personalist leader wielding military and political power.

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Cay

A cay, also spelled caye or key, is a small, low-elevation, sandy island on the surface of a coral reef.

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Cayo Levantado

Cayo Levantado is an island in Samaná Bay, located in the Samaná Province in the eastern region of Dominican Republic.

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Central Bank of the Dominican Republic

The Central Bank of the Dominican Republic (Banco Central de la República Dominicana, BCRD) was established by the Monetary and Banking Law of 1947 as the central bank of the Dominican Republic, responsible for regulating the country's monetary and banking system.

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Central Chile

Central Chile (Zona central) is one of the five natural regions into which CORFO divided continental Chile in 1950.

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Central Intelligence Agency

The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), known informally as the Agency, metonymously as Langley and historically as the Company, is a civilian foreign intelligence service of the federal government of the United States tasked with gathering, processing, and analyzing national security information from around the world, primarily through the use of human intelligence (HUMINT) and conducting covert action through its Directorate of Operations.

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Ceramic

A ceramic is any of the various hard, brittle, heat-resistant, and corrosion-resistant materials made by shaping and then firing an inorganic, nonmetallic material, such as clay, at a high temperature.

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Ceylin del Carmen Alvarado

Ceylin del Carmen Alvarado (born 6 August 1998) is a Dominican-born Dutch cyclist, who currently competes in cyclo-cross for UCI Cyclo-cross Team, and in road cycling for UCI Women's Continental Team.

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Chaîne de la Selle

Chaîne de la Selle is a mountain range in Haiti, on the island of Hispaniola.

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Chamber of Deputies of the Dominican Republic

The Chamber of Deputies (Cámara de Diputados) is the Lower house of the Congress which, along with the Senate, composes the legislature of the Dominican Republic.

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Chicharrón

Chicharrón (plural chicharrones; torresmo; sitsaron; chachalon) is a dish generally consisting of fried pork belly or fried pork rinds.

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Chichí Peralta

Pedro René Peralta Soto (born July 9, 1966), better known as Chichi Peralta, is a Dominican musician, songwriter, composer and producer.

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Child labour

Child labour is the exploitation of children through any form of work that interferes with their ability to attend regular school, or is mentally, physically, socially and morally harmful.

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Chimichurri burger

The chimichurri burger (usually called chimi burger, Dominican burger, or simply chimi) is a traditional snack dish (sandwich) served in the Dominican Republic.

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Chinese folk religion

Chinese folk religion, also known as Chinese popular religion, comprehends a range of traditional religious practices of Han Chinese, including the Chinese diaspora.

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Christianity

Christianity is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.

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Christians

A Christian is a person who follows or adheres to Christianity, a monotheistic Abrahamic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.

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Christopher Columbus

Christopher Columbus (between 25 August and 31 October 1451 – 20 May 1506) was an Italian explorer and navigator from the Republic of Genoa who completed four Spanish-based voyages across the Atlantic Ocean sponsored by the Catholic Monarchs, opening the way for the widespread European exploration and colonization of the Americas.

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Church News

The Church News (formerly LDS Church News) is a multi-platform supplement and subdivision of the Deseret News, a Salt Lake City, Utah newspaper owned by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (informally, the LDS Church).

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Cibao

The Cibao, usually referred as "El Cibao", is a region of the Dominican Republic located at the northern part of the country.

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Ciguayo language

Ciguayo (Siwayo) was the language of the Samaná Peninsula of Hispaniola (now the Dominican Republic) at the time of the Spanish Conquest.

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City College of New York

The City College of the City University of New York (also known as the City College of New York, or simply City College or CCNY) is a public research university within the City University of New York (CUNY) system in New York City.

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Ciudad Colonial (Santo Domingo)

Ciudad Colonial (Spanish for "Colonial City") is the historic central neighborhood of the Dominican Republic's capital Santo Domingo.

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Claro (Dominican Republic)

Claro (formerly CODETEL) is the largest telecommunications company in the Dominican Republic and provides local, long-distance, and wireless voice services, as well as Internet and IPTV services, to approximately four million customers.

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Coat of arms of the Dominican Republic

The coat of arms of the Dominican Republic features a shield in similarly quartered colors as the flag, supported by a bay laurel branch (left) and a palm frond (right); above the shield, a blue ribbon displays the national motto: Dios, Patria, Libertad (God, Homeland, Liberty).

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Cocolo

Cocolo is a term used in the Hispanic Caribbean to refer to Afro-Caribbean migrant descendants.

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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (titled Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive for the British edition) is a 2005 book by academic and popular science author Jared Diamond, in which the author first defines collapse: "a drastic decrease in human population size and/or political/economic/social complexity, over a considerable area, for an extended time." He then reviews the causes of historical and pre-historical instances of societal collapse—particularly those involving significant influences from environmental changes, the effects of climate change, hostile neighbors, trade partners, and the society's response to the foregoing four challenges.

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Colombians

Colombians (Colombianos) are people identified with the country of Colombia.

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Columbus Lighthouse

Columbus Lighthouse (Faro a Colón, meaning "Lighthouse to Columbus") is a mausoleum monument to Christopher Columbus located in Santo Domingo Este, Dominican Republic.

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Comendador, Dominican Republic

Comendador is the capital of the Elías Piña province of the Dominican Republic.

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Commander-in-chief

A commander-in-chief or supreme commander is the person who exercises supreme command and control over an armed force or a military branch.

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Commercial bank

A commercial bank is a financial institution that accepts deposits from the public and gives loans for the purposes of consumption and investment to make a profit.

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Complutense University of Madrid

The Complutense University of Madrid (Universidad Complutense de Madrid; UCM, Universidad de Madrid, Universidad Central de Madrid; Universitas Complutensis Matritensis) is a public research university located in Madrid.

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Congo Basin

The Congo Basin (Bassin du Congo) is the sedimentary basin of the Congo River.

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Congress of the Dominican Republic

The Congress of the Dominican Republic (Congreso de la República Dominicana) is the bicameral legislature of the government of the Dominican Republic, consisting of two houses, the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies.

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Constanza, Dominican Republic

Constanza is a town and municipality in La Vega Province, Dominican Republic.

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Constitution Day

Constitution Day is a holiday to honour the constitution of a country.

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Constitution of the Dominican Republic

The Dominican Republic has gone through 39 constitutions, more than any other country, since its independence in 1844.

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Cordillera Central, Dominican Republic

The Cordillera Central is the highest mountain range in the Dominican Republic and in all of the Caribbean, running through the heart of the island of Hispaniola.

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Cordillera Septentrional

The Cordillera Septentrional is a mountain range that runs parallel to the north coast of the Dominican Republic, with extensions to the northwest as Tortuga island in Haiti, and to the southeast through lowlands to where it rises as the Sierra de Samaná on the Samaná Peninsula.

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Cotuí

Cotuí is a city in the central region of the Dominican Republic and is one of the oldest cities of the New World.

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Coup d'état

A coup d'état, or simply a coup, is typically an illegal and overt attempt by a military organization or other government elites to unseat an incumbent leadership.

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Crème caramel

Crème caramel, flan, caramel pudding, condensed milk pudding or caramel custard is a custard dessert with a layer of clear caramel sauce.

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Cristian Javier

Cristian Javier (born March 26, 1997) is a Dominican professional baseball pitcher for the Houston Astros of Major League Baseball (MLB).

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Crown of Castile

The Crown of Castile was a medieval polity in the Iberian Peninsula that formed in 1230 as a result of the third and definitive union of the crowns and, some decades later, the parliaments of the kingdoms of Castile and León upon the accession of the then Castilian king, Ferdinand III, to the vacant Leonese throne.

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Cuba

Cuba, officially the Republic of Cuba, is an island country, comprising the island of Cuba, Isla de la Juventud, archipelagos, 4,195 islands and cays surrounding the main island. Dominican Republic and Cuba are countries in North America, countries in the Caribbean, former Spanish colonies, former colonies in North America, Greater Antilles, island countries, member states of the United Nations, new Spain, republics, small Island Developing States, Spanish West Indies, Spanish colonization of the Americas and Spanish-speaking countries and territories.

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Cuban pastry

Cuban pastries (known in Spanish as pasteles or pastelitos) are baked puff pastry–type pastries filled with sweet or savory fillings.

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Cuban Revolution

The Cuban Revolution (Revolución cubana) was the military and political effort to overthrow Fulgencio Batista's dictatorship which reigned as the government of Cuba between 1952 and 1959.

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Cubans

Cubans (Cubanos) are people from Cuba or people with Cuban citizenship.

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Cultural assimilation

Cultural assimilation is the process in which a minority group or culture comes to resemble a society's majority group or assimilates the values, behaviors, and beliefs of another group whether fully or partially.

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Culture of Africa

The Culture of Africa is varied and manifold, consisting of a mixture of countries with various tribes depicting their unique characteristic and trait from the continent of Africa.

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Culture of Argentina

The culture of Argentina is as varied as the country geography and is composed of a mix of ethnic groups.

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Culture of Cuba

The culture of Cuba is a complex mixture of different, often contradicting, factors and influences.

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Culture of Europe

The culture of Europe is diverse, and rooted in its art, architecture, traditions, cuisines, music, folklore, embroidery, film, literature, economics, philosophy and religious customs.

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Culture of Puerto Rico

The culture of Puerto Rico is the result of a number of internal and indigenous influences, both past and present.

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Culture of Uruguay

The culture of Uruguay is diverse since the nation's population is one of multicultural origins.

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Dajabón

Dajabón is a municipality and capital of the Dajabón province in the Dominican Republic, which is located on the northwestern Dominican Republic frontier with Haiti.

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Dajabón Province

Dajabón is a northwestern province which currently comprises one of the 32 provinces of the Dominican Republic.

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Dame-Marie, Haiti

Dame Marie (Dam Mari) is a small seaside commune located on the western tip of Haiti, in the arrondissement of Anse-d'Hainault, in the Grand'Anse department of Haiti.

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Danilo Medina

Danilo Medina Sánchez (born 10 November 1951) is a Dominican politician who was President of the Dominican Republic from 2012 to 2020.

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David Ortiz

David Américo Ortiz Arias (born November 18, 1975), nicknamed "Big Papi", is a Dominican-American former professional baseball designated hitter who played 20 seasons in Major League Baseball from 1997 to 2016, primarily for the Boston Red Sox.

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Día de la Altagracia

Día de la Altagracia, or Altagracia Day, is a day commemorating the patronal image and protector of the people of the Dominican Republic.

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Dean Rusk

David Dean Rusk (February 9, 1909December 20, 1994) was the United States secretary of state from 1961 to 1969 under presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, the second-longest serving Secretary of State after Cordell Hull from the Franklin Roosevelt administration.

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Defensive end

Defensive end (DE) is a defensive position in the sport of gridiron football.

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Democracy

Democracy (from dēmokratía, dēmos 'people' and kratos 'rule') is a system of government in which state power is vested in the people or the general population of a state.

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Demographics of Africa

The population of Africa has grown rapidly over the past century and consequently shows a large youth bulge, further reinforced by a low life expectancy of below 50 years in some African countries.

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Demographics of Europe

Figures for the population of Europe vary according to the particular definition of Europe's boundaries.

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Demographics of Syria

Syria's estimated pre–Syrian Civil War 2011 population was 22 ±.5 million permanent inhabitants, which included 21,124,000 Syrians, as well as 1.3 million Iraqi refugees and over 500,000 Palestinian refugees. The war makes an accurate count of the Syrian population difficult, as the numbers of Syrian refugees, internally displaced Syrians and casualty numbers are in flux.

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Desiderio Arias

Desiderio Arias Álvarez (1872–1931) was a notable soldier and caudillo who gained a significant following throughout the northern band of the Dominican Republic, especially in the Montecristi region.

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Developing country

A developing country is a sovereign state with a less developed industrial base and a lower Human Development Index (HDI) relative to other countries.

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Digital subscriber line

Digital subscriber line (DSL; originally digital subscriber loop) is a family of technologies that are used to transmit digital data over telephone lines.

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Distrito Nacional

The Distrito Nacional (D.N.) is a subdivision of the Dominican Republic enclosing the capital Santo Domingo.

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Dollar

Dollar is the name of more than 25 currencies.

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Dominican Air Force

The Air Force of the Dominican Republic (Fuerza Aérea de República Dominicana), is one of the three branches of the Armed Forces of the Dominican Republic, together with the Army and the Navy.

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Dominican Americans

Dominican Americans (domínico-americanos, estadounidenses dominicanos) are Americans who trace their ancestry to the Dominican Republic.

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Dominican Army

The Dominican Army (Ejército de República Dominicana, is one of the three branches of the Armed Forces of the Dominican Republic, together with the Navy and the Air Force. The Dominican army with 28,750 active duty personnel consists of six infantry brigades, a combat support brigade, a combat service support brigade and the air cavalry squadron.

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Dominican Civil War

The Dominican Civil War, also known as the April Revolution, took place between April 24, 1965, and September 3, 1965, in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

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Dominican Civil War (1911–1912)

The Dominican Civil War that lasted from 5 December 1911 until 30 November 1912 was the bloodiest in the history of the Dominican Republic.

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Dominican Liberation Party

The Dominican Liberation Party (Spanish: Partido de la Liberación Dominicana, referred to here by its Spanish acronym, the PLD) is a political party in the Dominican Republic.

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Dominican Navy

The Navy of the Dominican Republic (Armada de Republica Dominicana (ARD)), is one of the three branches of the Armed Forces of the Dominican Republic, together with the Army and the Air Force.

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Dominican Order

The Order of Preachers (Ordo Prædicatorum; abbreviated OP), commonly known as the Dominican Order, is a Catholic mendicant order of pontifical right that was founded in France by a Castilian-French priest named Dominic de Guzmán.

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Dominican peso

Peso dominicano (Dominican peso) has been the name of the currency of the Dominican Republic (República Dominicana) since 2010.

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Dominican Professional Baseball League

The Dominican Republic Professional Baseball League (Liga de Béisbol Profesional de la República Dominicana or LIDOM) is a professional baseball winter league consisting of six teams spread across the Dominican Republic; it is the highest level of professional baseball played in the Dominican Republic.

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Dominican Republic immigration to Puerto Rico

Dominican immigration to Puerto Rico dates back to the beginning of European colonization of the Americas.

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Dominican Republic Volleyball Federation

The Dominican Republic Volleyball Federation (Federación Dominicana de Voleibol or FEDOVOLI) is a non-profit organization which serves as the national governing body of volleyball in the Dominican Republic.

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Dominican Republic–Central America Free Trade Agreement

The Dominican Republic–Central America–United States Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA-DR; Spanish: Tratado de Libre Comercio entre República Dominicana, Centroamérica y Estados Unidos de América, TLC) is a free trade agreement (legally a treaty under international law).

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Dominican Republic–Haiti relations

Dominican Republic–Haiti relations are the diplomatic relations between the nations of Dominican Republic and Haiti.

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Dominican Republic–United States relations

Dominican Republic–United States relations are bilateral relations between the Dominican Republic and the United States of America.

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Dominican Restoration War

The Dominican Restoration War or the Dominican War of Restoration was a guerrilla war between 1863 and 1865 in the Dominican Republic between nationalists and Spain, the latter of which had recolonized the country 17 years after its independence.

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Dominican Revolutionary Party

The Dominican Revolutionary Party (Partido Revolucionario Dominicano, PRD) is a political party in the Dominican Republic.

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Dominican rock

Dominican rock (or rock dominicano) is rock music created by musicians in the Dominican Republic.

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Dominican Spanish

Dominican Spanish (español dominicano) is Spanish as spoken in the Dominican Republic; and also among the Dominican diaspora, most of whom live in the United States, chiefly in New York City, New Jersey, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Florida.

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Dominican War of Independence

The Dominican War of Independence (Spanish: Guerra de Independencia Dominicana) was a war of independence that began when the Dominican Republic declared independence from the Republic of Haiti on February 27, 1844 and ended on January 24, 1856.

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Douglas C-47 Skytrain

The Douglas C-47 Skytrain or Dakota (RAF designation) is a military transport aircraft developed from the civilian Douglas DC-3 airliner.

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DR-1 (Dominican Republic highway)

DR-1 is a dual carriageway highway that forms part of the five designated national highways of the Dominican Republic.

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DR-12 (Dominican Republic highway)

DR-12, better known as la Carretera de Constanza, is a signed highway in the Dominican Republic, part of the national highway system.

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DR-13 (Dominican Republic highway)

DR-13 is a highway in the Dominican Republic.

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DR-2 (Dominican Republic highway)

DR-2 is the second numbered national highway in the Dominican Republic.

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DR-3 (Dominican Republic highway)

DR-3 is one of three main dual carriageway highways of the Dominican Republic, connecting Santo Domingo to the eastern cities of the republic.

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DR-4 (Dominican Republic highway)

DR-4 is the fourth numbered highway of the Dominican Republic.

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DR-5 (Dominican Republic highway)

DR-5 is of one of the main highways in the Dominican Republic.

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Duarte Province

Duarte is a northeastern province which comprises one of the 32 provinces of the Dominican Republic. Dominican Republic and Duarte Province are states and territories established in 1844.

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Dulce de leche

Dulce de leche, caramelized milk, milk candy, or milk jam is a confectionery popular in Latin America, France, Poland, and the Philippines prepared by slowly heating sugar and milk over several hours.

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Dutch people

The Dutch (Dutch) are an ethnic group native to the Netherlands.

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Dwight D. Eisenhower

Dwight David Eisenhower (born David Dwight Eisenhower; October 14, 1890 – March 28, 1969), nicknamed Ike, was an American military officer and statesman who served as the 34th president of the United States from 1953 to 1961.

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East Asia

East Asia is a geographical and cultural region of Asia including the countries of China, Japan, Mongolia, North Korea, South Korea, and Taiwan.

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Economic Partnership Agreements

Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) are a scheme to create a free trade area (FTA) between the European Union and other countries.

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Economy of the Dominican Republic

The economy of the Dominican Republic is the seventh largest in Latin America, and is the largest in the Caribbean and Central American region.

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Ecotourism

Ecotourism is a form of tourism marketed as "responsible" travel (using what proponents say is sustainable transport) to natural areas, conserving the environment, and improving the well-being of the local people.

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Eddy Herrera

Eduardo José Herrera de los Ríos (born 30 April 1964 in Santiago de los Caballeros), also known as Eddy Herrera, is a Dominican merengue musician and winner of more than seven Casandra Awards.

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Edwin Encarnación

Edwin Elpidio Encarnación Rivera (born January 7, 1983) is a Dominican former professional baseball designated hitter, third baseman and first baseman.

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EF Education First

EF Education First (abbreviated as EF) is an international education company that specialises in language training, educational travels, academic degree programmes, and cultural exchanges.

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El Seibo Province

El Seibo, alternatively spelt El Seybo, is a province of the Dominican Republic. Dominican Republic and El Seibo Province are states and territories established in 1844.

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El Seibo, Dominican Republic

Santa Cruz del Seibo or El Seibo, is a city and municipality in the El Seibo Province of the Dominican Republic, located in the eastern part of the country.

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ELAC Action Plans

eLAC in international relations, is an intergovernmental strategy that conceives of information and communications technologies (ICTs) as instruments for economic development and social inclusion in Latin America and the Caribbean.

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Elías Piña Province

Elías Piña is one of the 32 provinces of the Dominican Republic, located in the westernmost part of the country, along the border with Haiti.

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Elections in the Dominican Republic

The Dominican Republic is a unitary state with elected officials at the national and local levels.

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Elly De La Cruz

Elly Antonio De La Cruz (born January 11, 2002) is a Dominican professional baseball infielder for the Cincinnati Reds of Major League Baseball (MLB).

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Empanada

An empanada is a type of baked or fried turnover consisting of pastry and filling, common in Spain, other Southern European countries, Latin American countries, and the Philippines.

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Encyclopædia Britannica

The British Encyclopaedia is a general knowledge English-language encyclopaedia.

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Endemism

Endemism is the state of a species only being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsewhere.

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Enforced disappearance

An enforced disappearance (or forced disappearance) is the secret abduction or imprisonment of a person with the support or acquiescence of a state followed by a refusal to acknowledge the person's fate or whereabouts with the intent of placing the victim outside the protection of the law.

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English language

English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England on the island of Great Britain.

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Enriquillo

Enriquillo, also known as "Enrique" by the Spaniards, was a Taíno cacique who rebelled against the Spaniards between 1519 and 1533.

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Enriquillo wetlands

The Enriquillo wetlands are a flooded grasslands and savannas ecoregion on the island of Hispaniola.

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Environmental issues in Haiti

Environmental issues in Haiti include a historical deforestation problem, overpopulation, a lack of sanitation, natural disasters, and food insecurity.

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Episcopal Church (United States)

The Episcopal Church, officially the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America (PECUSA), is a member church of the worldwide Anglican Communion based in the United States with additional dioceses elsewhere.

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España Boba

In the history of the Dominican Republic, the period of España Boba (Spanish: "Meek Spain") lasted from 9 July 1809 to 1 December 1821, during which the Captaincy General of Santo Domingo was under Spanish rule, but the Spanish government exercised minimal powers because its resources were attenuated by the Peninsular War and the various Spanish American wars of independence.

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Espaillat Province

Espaillat is one of the 32 provinces of the Dominican Republic.

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Ethnic Chinese in the Dominican Republic

The Chinese community in the Dominican Republic forms one of the largest Chinese communities in Latin America.

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Ethnic groups in Europe

Europeans are the focus of European ethnology, the field of anthropology related to the various ethnic groups that reside in the states of Europe.

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Euro

The euro (symbol: €; currency code: EUR) is the official currency of 20 of the member states of the European Union.

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Europe

Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.

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European Union

The European Union (EU) is a supranational political and economic union of member states that are located primarily in Europe.

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Evangelicalism

Evangelicalism, also called evangelical Christianity or evangelical Protestantism, is a worldwide interdenominational movement within Protestant Christianity that emphasizes the centrality of sharing the "good news" of Christianity, being "born again" in which an individual experiences personal conversion, as authoritatively guided by the Bible, God's revelation to humanity.

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Fania All-Stars

The Fania All-Stars is a musical group formed in 1968 as a showcase for the musicians on Fania Records, the leading salsa music record label of the time.

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Félix Sánchez (hurdler)

Félix Sánchez, (born August 30, 1977) is a retired Dominican-American track and field athlete.

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Felipe Alou

Felipe Rojas Alou (born May 12, 1935) is a Dominican former Major League Baseball outfielder, first baseman, coach and manager.

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Felipe López (basketball)

Luis Felipe López (born December 19, 1974) is a Dominican former professional basketball player.

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Fernando Tatís Jr.

Fernando Gabriel Tatís Medina Jr. (born January 2, 1999), nicknamed "El Niño" or "Bebo", is a Dominican professional baseball right fielder for the San Diego Padres of Major League Baseball (MLB).

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Fernando Villalona

Ramón Fernando Villalona Évora (born May 7, 1955), known professionally as Fernando Villalona, is a Dominican merengue singer.

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Fidel Castro

Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz (13 August 1926 – 25 November 2016) was a Cuban revolutionary and politician who was the leader of Cuba from 1959 to 2008, serving as the prime minister of Cuba from 1959 to 1976 and president from 1976 to 2008.

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Fine art

In European academic traditions, fine art is made primarily for aesthetics or creative expression, distinguishing it from decorative art or applied art, which also has to serve some practical function, such as pottery or most metalwork.

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First Dominican Republic

The First Dominican Republic, was a predecessor of the currently existing Dominican Republic, and began on 27 February 1844 with the proclamation of the Dominican Republic, and culminated on 18 March 1861 with the annexation of the country to Spain.

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First Empire of Haiti

The First Empire of Haiti, officially known as the Empire of Haiti (Empire d'Haïti; Anpi an Ayiti), was an elective monarchy in North America.

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First language

A first language (L1), native language, native tongue, or mother tongue is the first language a person has been exposed to from birth or within the critical period.

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Flag of the Dominican Republic

The flag of the Dominican Republic represents the Dominican Republic and, together with the coat of arms and the national anthem, has the status of a national symbol.

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Forced labour

Forced labour, or unfree labour, is any work relation, especially in modern or early modern history, in which people are employed against their will with the threat of destitution, detention, or violence, including death or other forms of extreme hardship to either themselves or members of their families.

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Foreign exchange reserves

Foreign exchange reserves (also called forex reserves or FX reserves) are cash and other reserve assets such as gold and silver held by a central bank or other monetary authority that are primarily available to balance payments of the country, influence the foreign exchange rate of its currency, and to maintain confidence in financial markets.

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Fort-de-France

Fort-de-France (Fodfwans) is a commune and the capital city of Martinique, an overseas department and region of France located in the Caribbean.

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Fortaleza Ozama

The Ozama Fortress (Fortaleza Ozama), also formerly known as the city wall's Homage tower, is one of the surviving sections of the Walls of Santo Domingo, which is recognized by UNESCO as being the oldest military construction of European origin in the Americas.

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Framber Valdez

Framber Valdez (born November 19, 1993) is a Dominican professional baseball pitcher for the Houston Astros of Major League Baseball (MLB).

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Francisco del Rosario Sánchez

Francisco del Rosario Sánchez (9 March 1817 – 4 July 1861) was a Dominican revolutionary, politician, and former president of the Dominican Republic.

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Francisco García (basketball)

Francisco Alberto García Gutiérrez (born December 31, c. 1981) is a Dominican former professional basketball player who played ten seasons in the NBA.

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Francisco Liriano

Francisco Liriano Casillas (born October 26, 1983) is a Dominican former professional baseball pitcher.

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Frank Báez

Frank Báez is a Dominican poet, editor, and writer, born in 1978 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

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Free Methodist Church

The Free Methodist Church (FMC) is a Methodist Christian denomination within the holiness movement, based in the United States.

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Free trade area

A free trade area is the region encompassing a trade bloc whose member countries have signed a free trade agreement (FTA).

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French language

French (français,, or langue française,, or by some speakers) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family.

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French people

The French people (lit) are a nation primarily located in Western Europe that share a common French culture, history, and language, identified with the country of France.

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Fundamentalism

Fundamentalism is a tendency among certain groups and individuals that is characterized by the application of a strict literal interpretation to scriptures, dogmas, or ideologies, along with a strong belief in the importance of distinguishing one's ingroup and outgroup, which leads to an emphasis on some conception of "purity", and a desire to return to a previous ideal from which advocates believe members have strayed.

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Gabriel Mercedes

Yulis Gabriel Mercedes Reyes (born November 12, 1979, in Monte Plata, Monte Plata Province) is a Dominican taekwondo practitioner and Olympic medalist.

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Güira

The güira is a percussion instrument from the Dominican Republic used in merengue, bachata, and to a lesser extent, other genres such as cumbia.

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Gender evaluation methodology

The Gender Evaluation Methodology (GEM) is an evaluation methodology that integrates a gender analysis into evaluations of initiatives that use information and communications technologies (ICTs) for social change.

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Genealogical DNA test

A genealogical DNA test is a DNA-based genetic test used in genetic genealogy that looks at specific locations of a person's genome in order to find or verify ancestral genealogical relationships, or (with lower reliability) to estimate the ethnic mixture of an individual.

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German Empire

The German Empire, also referred to as Imperial Germany, the Second Reich or simply Germany, was the period of the German Reich from the unification of Germany in 1871 until the November Revolution in 1918, when the German Reich changed its form of government from a monarchy to a republic.

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Germans

Germans are the natives or inhabitants of Germany, or sometimes more broadly any people who are of German descent or native speakers of the German language.

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Global Innovation Index

The Global Innovation Index is an annual ranking of countries by their capacity for, and success in, innovation, published by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).

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Global Slavery Index

The Global Slavery Index is a global study of modern slavery published by the Minderoo Foundation's Walk Free initiative.

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Gold mining

Gold mining is the extraction of gold by mining.

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GovInfo

GovInfo is an official website of the United States government that houses U.S. government information.

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Greater Antilles

The Greater Antilles is a grouping of the larger islands in the Caribbean Sea, including Cuba, Hispaniola, Puerto Rico, Jamaica, Navassa Island, and the Cayman Islands.

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Greater Antilles mangroves

The Greater Antilles mangroves is a mangrove ecoregion that includes the coastal mangrove forests of the Greater Antilles – Cuba, Hispaniola, Jamaica, and Puerto Rico.

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Greenwood Publishing Group

Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc. (GPG), also known as ABC-Clio/Greenwood (stylized ABC-CLIO/Greenwood), is an educational and academic publisher (middle school through university level) which is today part of ABC-Clio.

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Guacanagaríx

Guacanagarix (alternate transcriptions: Guacanacaríc, Guacanagarí) was one of five Taíno caciques of the Caribbean island henceforth known as Hispaniola at the arrival of the Europeans in 1492.

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Guadeloupe

Guadeloupe (Gwadloup) is an overseas department and region of France in the Caribbean. Dominican Republic and Guadeloupe are former colonies in North America and island countries.

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Guamá

Guamá (died on june 6 1533) was a Taíno rebel chief who led a rebellion against Spanish rule in Cuba in the 1530s.

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Habichuelas con dulce

Habichuelas con dulce is a sweet bean liquid dessert from the Dominican Republic that is especially popular around the Easter holiday.

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Haiti

Haiti, officially the Republic of Haiti, is a country on the island of Hispaniola in the Caribbean Sea, east of Cuba and Jamaica, and south of The Bahamas. Dominican Republic and Haiti are 1492 establishments in the Spanish West Indies, countries in North America, countries in the Caribbean, former French colonies, former Spanish colonies, Greater Antilles, island countries, member states of the United Nations, republics and small Island Developing States.

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Haitian Creole

Haitian Creole (kreyòl ayisyen,; créole haïtien), or simply Creole (kreyòl), is a French-based creole language spoken by 10 to 12million people worldwide, and is one of the two official languages of Haiti (the other being French), where it is the native language of the vast majority of the population.

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Haitians

Haitians (French: Haïtiens, Ayisyen) are the citizens of Haiti and the descendants in the diaspora through direct parentage.

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Haitians in the Dominican Republic

The Haitian minority of the Dominican Republic (Haitianos en la República Dominicana; Ayisyen nan Dominikani; Haïtiens en République dominicaine) is the largest ethnic minority in the Dominican Republic since the early 20th century.

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Hanley Ramírez

Hanley Ramírez (born December 23, 1983) is a Dominican-American former professional baseball shortstop.

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Harry Shepard Knapp

Harry Shepard Knapp (June 27, 1856 – April 6, 1923) was a Vice Admiral of the United States Navy, Military Governor of Santo Domingo, and Military Representative of the United States in Haiti.

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Hato Mayor del Rey

Hato Mayor del Rey is the capital of Hato Mayor Province, Dominican Republic.

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Hato Mayor Province

Hato Mayor (greater cattle-raising district) is a province of the Dominican Republic.

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Hatuey

Hatuey, also Hatüey (died 2 February 1512), was a Taíno Cacique (chief) of the Hispaniolan cacicazgo of Guanaba (in present-day La Gonave, Haiti).

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Hermanas Mirabal Province

Hermanas Mirabal (named after the Mirabal sisters) is a province of the Dominican Republic.

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Hertz

The hertz (symbol: Hz) is the unit of frequency in the International System of Units (SI), equivalent to one event (or cycle) per second.

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Higüey

Higüey, or in full Salvaleón de Higüey, is the capital city of the eastern La Altagracia Province, in the Dominican Republic, and the eighth largest city of that country.

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Hipólito Mejía

Rafael Hipólito Mejía Domínguez (born 22 February 1941) is a Dominican politician who served as President of the Dominican Republic from 2000 to 2004.

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Hispaniola

Hispaniola (also) is an island in the Caribbean that is part of the Greater Antilles. Dominican Republic and Hispaniola are Greater Antilles and Spanish West Indies.

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Hispaniolan dry forests

The Hispaniolan dry forests are a tropical dry broadleaf forest ecoregion on the island of Hispaniola (split between the Dominican Republic and Haiti).

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Hispaniolan moist forests

The Hispaniolan moist forests are a tropical moist broadleaf forest ecoregion on the island of Hispaniola.

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Hispaniolan pine forests

The Hispaniolan pine forests are a subtropical coniferous forest ecoregion found on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola, which is shared by Haiti and the Dominican Republic.

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History of the Dominican Republic

The recorded history of the Dominican Republic began in 1492 when the Genoa-born navigator Christopher Columbus, working for the Crown of Castile, happened upon a large island in the region of the western Atlantic Ocean that later came to be known as the Caribbean. Dominican Republic and history of the Dominican Republic are Spanish West Indies.

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Holy See

The Holy See (url-status,; Santa Sede), also called the See of Rome, Petrine See or Apostolic See, is the jurisdiction of the pope in his role as the Bishop of Rome.

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Horacio Vásquez

Felipe Horacio Vásquez Lajara (October 22, 1860 – March 25, 1936) was a Dominican Republic military general and political figure.

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Human Rights Watch

Human Rights Watch (HRW) is an international non-governmental organization headquartered in New York City that conducts research and advocacy on human rights.

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Hungarians

Hungarians, also known as Magyars (magyarok), are a Central European nation and an ethnic group native to Hungary and historical Hungarian lands (i.e. belonging to the former Kingdom of Hungary) who share a common culture, history, ancestry, and language.

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Hurricane David

Hurricane David was a devastating Atlantic hurricane which caused massive loss of life in the Dominican Republic in August 1979, and was the most intense hurricane to make landfall in the country in recorded history.

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Hurricane Georges

Hurricane Georges was a powerful and long-lived Cape Verde Category 4 hurricane which caused severe destruction as it traversed the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico in September 1998, making seven landfalls along its path.

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Illegal immigration

Illegal immigration is the migration of people into a country in violation of that country's immigration laws, or the continuous residence in a country without the legal right to.

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Impressionism

Impressionism was a 19th-century art movement characterized by relatively small, thin, yet visible brush strokes, open composition, emphasis on accurate depiction of light in its changing qualities (often accentuating the effects of the passage of time), ordinary subject matter, unusual visual angles, and inclusion of movement as a crucial element of human perception and experience.

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Independencia Province

Independencia is a province of the Dominican Republic, located in the west, on the border with Haiti.

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Index of Dominican Republic–related articles

The following is an alphabetical list of topics related to the Dominican Republic.

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Infantry

Infantry is a specialization of military personnel who engage in warfare combat.

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International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women

The United Nations General Assembly has designated November 25 as the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women (Resolution 54/134).

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International Monetary Fund

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is a major financial agency of the United Nations, and an international financial institution funded by 190 member countries, with headquarters in Washington, D.C. It is regarded as the global lender of last resort to national governments, and a leading supporter of exchange-rate stability.

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Internet Protocol television

Internet Protocol television (IPTV), also called TV over broadband, is the service delivery of television over Internet Protocol (IP) networks.

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Internet service provider

An Internet service provider (ISP) is an organization that provides myriad services related to accessing, using, managing, or participating in the Internet.

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Iraq War

The Iraq War, sometimes called the Second Persian Gulf War, or Second Gulf War was a protracted armed conflict in Iraq from 2003 to 2011. It began with the invasion of Iraq by the United States-led coalition that overthrew the Ba'athist government of Saddam Hussein. The conflict continued for much of the next decade as an insurgency emerged to oppose the coalition forces and the post-invasion Iraqi government.

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Irreligion in Latin America

Irreligion in Latin America refers to various types of irreligion, including atheism, agnosticism, deism, secular humanism, secularism and non-religious.

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Isabella II

Isabella II (Isabel II, María Isabel Luisa de Borbón y Borbón-Dos Sicilias; 10 October 1830 – 9 April 1904) was Queen of Spain from 1833 until her deposition in 1868.

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ISO 4217

ISO 4217 is a standard published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) that defines alpha codes and numeric codes for the representation of currencies and provides information about the relationships between individual currencies and their minor units.

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Italian language

Italian (italiano,, or lingua italiana) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire.

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Italians

Italians (italiani) are an ethnic group native to the Italian geographical region.

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Jacinto Peynado Garrigosa

Jacinto Bienvenido Peynado Garrigosa (9 March 1941 – 9 August 2004) was a businessman and politician who served as Vice President of the Dominican Republic from 1994 to 1996.

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Japanese people

are an East Asian ethnic group native to the Japanese archipelago.

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Japanese settlement in the Dominican Republic

Japanese Dominicans (Dominicanos Japoneses) are Dominican citizens of Japanese origin.

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Jarabacoa

Jarabacoa is a town located in the central region of the Dominican Republic.

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Jared Diamond

Jared Mason Diamond (born September 10, 1937) is an American scientist, historian, and author.

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Jean-Pierre Boyer

Jean-Pierre Boyer (15 February 1776 – 9 July 1850) was one of the leaders of the Haitian Revolution, and the president of Haiti from 1818 to 1843.

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Jimaní

Jimaní is the capital and the second largest city of the Independencia Province of the Dominican Republic.

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Joan Guzmán

Joan Guzmán (born May 1, 1976) is a Dominican former professional boxer who competed from 1997 to 2014.

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Joaquín Balaguer

Joaquín Antonio Balaguer Ricardo (1 September 1906 – 14 July 2002) was a Dominican politician, scholar, writer, and lawyer.

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Johnny Pacheco

Juan Pablo Knipping Pacheco (25 March 1935 – 15 February 2021), known as Johnny Pacheco, was a Dominican musician, arranger, composer, bandleader, and record producer.

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Johnny Ventura

Juan de Dios Ventura Soriano (8 March 1940 – 28 July 2021), better known as Johnny Ventura nicknamed El Caballo Mayor, was a Dominican singer and band leader of merengue and salsa.

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José Bautista

José Antonio Bautista Santos (born October 19, 1980), nicknamed "Joey Bats", is a Dominican former professional baseball right fielder and third baseman who played 15 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB), primarily for the Toronto Blue Jays.

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José Desiderio Valverde

José Desiderio Valverde Pérez (1822December 22, 1903) was a Dominican military figure and politician.

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José Francisco Peña Gómez

José Francisco Peña Gómez (6 March 1937 – 10 May 1998) was a politician from the Dominican Republic.

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José Núñez de Cáceres

José Núñez de Cáceres y Albor (March 14, 1772 – September 11, 1846) was a Dominican revolutionary and writer.

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José Reyes (infielder)

José Bernabe Reyes (born June 11, 1983) is a Dominican-American former professional baseball infielder.

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Joseph Balthazar Inginac

Joseph Balthazar Inginac (also known as Balthazar Inginac) (1775 in Leogane - 1847) was a Haitian diplomat and member of the presidential inner circle.

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Juan Bosch (politician)

Juan Emilio Bosch y Gaviño (30 June 1909 – 1 November 2001) was a Dominican politician, historian, writer, essayist, educator, and the first democratically elected president of the Dominican Republic for a brief time in 1963.

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Juan Guzman (boxer)

Juan Antonio Guzmán Batista (August 21, 1951 — May 2021), better known as Juan Guzman, was a Dominican former professional boxer and WBA world Junior Flyweight champion.

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Juan Isidro Jimenes

Juan Isidro Jimenes Pereyra (November 15, 1846 – May 9, 1919) was a Dominican Republic political figure.

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Juan Luis Guerra

Juan Luis Guerra Seijas (born 7 June 1957) is a Dominican musician, singer, composer, and record producer.

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Juan Marichal

Juan Antonio Marichal Sánchez (born October 20, 1937), nicknamed "the Dominican Dandy", is a Dominican former right-handed pitcher who played 16 seasons in Major League Baseball from 1960 to 1975, mostly with the San Francisco Giants.

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Juan Pablo Duarte

Juan Pablo Duarte y Díez (January 26, 1813 – July 15, 1876) was a Dominican military leader, writer, activist, and nationalist politician who was the foremost of the founding fathers of the Dominican Republic and bears the title of Father of the Nation.

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Juan Soto

Juan José Soto Pacheco (born October 25, 1998) is a Dominican professional baseball outfielder for the New York Yankees of Major League Baseball (MLB).

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Judiciary

The judiciary (also known as the judicial system, judicature, judicial branch, judiciative branch, and court or judiciary system) is the system of courts that adjudicates legal disputes/disagreements and interprets, defends, and applies the law in legal cases.

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Judo

is an unarmed modern Japanese martial art, combat sport, Olympic sport (since 1964), and the most prominent form of jacket wrestling competed internationally.

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Junot Díaz

Junot Díaz (born December 31, 1968) is a Dominican-American writer, creative writing professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a former fiction editor at Boston Review.

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Jus sanguinis

Jus sanguinis ('right of blood') is a principle of nationality law by which nationality is determined or acquired by the nationality of one or both parents.

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Kardecist spiritism

Spiritism or Kardecism is a reincarnationist and spiritualist doctrine established in France in the mid-19th century by writer and educator Hippolyte Léon Denizard Rivail (a.k.a. Allan Kardec).

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Kingdom of Italy

The Kingdom of Italy (Regno d'Italia) was a state that existed from 17 March 1861, when Victor Emmanuel II of Sardinia was proclaimed King of Italy, until 10 June 1946, when the monarchy was abolished, following civil discontent that led to an institutional referendum on 2 June 1946.

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Koreans

Koreans are an East Asian ethnic group native to Korea.

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La Altagracia Province

La Altagracia is a province located in the eastern part of the Dominican Republic.

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La Navidad

La Navidad ("The Nativity", i.e. Christmas) was a Spanish fort that Christopher Columbus and his crew established on the northwest coast of Hispaniola (near what is now Caracol, Nord-Est Department, Haiti) in 1492 from the remains of the Spanish ship the Santa María. Dominican Republic and La Navidad are former Spanish colonies, Spanish West Indies and Spanish colonization of the Americas.

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La Romana Province, Dominican Republic

La Romana is a province of the Dominican Republic.

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La Romana, Dominican Republic

La Romana is a municipality and capital of the southeastern province of La Romana, opposite Catalina Island.

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La Trinitaria (Dominican Republic)

La Trinitaria (The Trinity) was a secret society founded in 1838 in what today is known as Arzobispo Nouel Street, across from the "Del Carmen's Church" in the then occupied Santo Domingo, the current capital of the Dominican Republic.

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La Vega Province

La Vega is one of the 32 provinces of the Dominican Republic, located in north central of the country also known as Cibao. Dominican Republic and la Vega Province are states and territories established in 1844.

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La Vega, Dominican Republic

La Vega, is the fourth largest city and municipality of the Dominican Republic.

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Lake Enriquillo

Lake Enriquillo (Lago Enriquillo) is a hypersaline lake in the Dominican Republic located in the southwestern region of the country.

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Land reform

Land reform is a form of agrarian reform involving the changing of laws, regulations, or customs regarding land ownership.

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Landline

A landline (land line, land-line, main line, fixed-line, and wireline) is a telephone connection that uses metal wires from the owner's premises also referred to as: POTS, Twisted pair, telephone line or public switched telephone network (PSTN).

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Language proficiency

Language proficiency is the ability of an individual to use language with a level of accuracy which transfers meaning in production and comprehension.

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Latin America

Latin America often refers to the regions in the Americas in which Romance languages are the main languages and the culture and Empires of its peoples have had significant historical, ethnic, linguistic, and cultural impact.

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Latin percussion

Latin percussion is a family of percussion, membranophone, lamellophone and idiophone instruments used in Latin music.

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Lebanese people

The Lebanese people (الشعب اللبناني / ALA-LC) are the people inhabiting or originating from Lebanon.

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Lebanon

Lebanon (Lubnān), officially the Republic of Lebanon, is a country in the Levant region of West Asia. Dominican Republic and Lebanon are member states of the United Nations and republics.

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Legislature

A legislature is a deliberative assembly with the legal authority to make laws for a political entity such as a country, nation or city.

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Leo Cruz

Leonardo Cruz (born January 17, 1953, in Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic), better known in the world of boxing as Leo Cruz, was a world Jr.

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Leonel Fernández

Leonel Antonio Fernández Reyna (born 26 December 1953) is a Dominican lawyer, academic, and was the 50th and 52nd President of the Dominican Republic from 1996 to 2000 and from 2004 to 2012.

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Leuenbergeria quisqueyana

Leuenbergeria quisqueyana, known as the Bayahibe rose, is a species of cactus that is endemic to the Caribbean island of Hispaniola, in the Dominican Republic.

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Library of Congress

The Library of Congress (LOC) is a research library in Washington, D.C. that serves as the library and research service of the U.S. Congress and the de facto national library of the United States.

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List of countries by intentional homicide rate

The list of countries by UNODC homicide rate is typically expressed in units of deaths per 100,000 individuals per year.

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List of countries by real GDP growth rate

This article includes a lists of countries and dependent territories sorted by their real gross domestic product growth rate; the rate of growth of the value of all final goods and services produced within a state in a given year.

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List of islands of the Dominican Republic

The Dominican Republic, aside from being on the eastern part of Hispaniola (an island which it shares with Haiti), contains many small islands as part of a territory.

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List of Latin American and Caribbean countries by GDP (PPP)

This is a list of Latin American and the Caribbean countries by gross domestic product at purchasing power parity in international dollars according to the International Monetary Fund's estimates in the October 2023 World Economic Outlook database.

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List of national flowers

In a number of countries, plants have been chosen as symbols to represent specific geographic areas.

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List of national trees

This is a list of national trees, most official, but some unofficial.

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London

London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.

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Los Alcarrizos

Los Alcarrizos is a municipality (municipio) of the Santo Domingo province in the Dominican Republic.

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Los Hermanos Rosario

Los Hermanos Rosario (The Rosario Brothers in English) is a merengue band, originally consisting of brothers Toño Rosario, Pepe, Rafa and Luis.

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Luis Abinader

Luis Rodolfo Abinader Corona (born 12 July 1967) is a Dominican economist, businessman, and politician who has served as the 54th president of the Dominican Republic since 2020 and the president-elect of the Dominican Republic in the 2024 elections.

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Luis Castillo (American football)

Luis Alberto Castillo (born August 4, 1983) is an American former professional football player who was a defensive end for the San Diego Chargers of the National Football League (NFL).

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Lyndon B. Johnson

Lyndon Baines Johnson (August 27, 1908January 22, 1973), often referred to by his initials LBJ, was an American politician who served as the 36th president of the United States from 1963 to 1969.

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Major League Baseball

Major League Baseball (MLB) is a professional baseball league and the highest level of organized baseball in the United States and Canada.

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Mama Juana

Mama Juana (or Mamajuana) is a spiced alcoholic beverage made by infusing a mixture of rum, red wine, and honey with tree bark and herbs.

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Mangú

Mangú is Dominican Republic's national breakfast.

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Manny Ramirez

Manuel Arístides Ramírez Onelcida (born May 30, 1972) is a Dominican-American former professional baseball outfielder.

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Manuel del Cabral

Manuel del Cabral (7 March 1907, in Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic – 14 May 1999, in Santo Domingo) was a Dominican poet, writer, and diplomat.

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Manuel Jimenes

Manuel José Jimenes González (January 14, 1808December 22, 1854) was one of the leaders of the Dominican War of Independence.

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Mao, Dominican Republic

The Dominican city of Santa Cruz de Mao, or simply Mao, is the head municipality of the Valverde province, in the northwest of the country.

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María Trinidad Sánchez

María Trinidad Sánchez, Mother Founder (16 May 1794 – 27 February 1845) was a Dominican freedom fighter and a heroine of the Dominican War of Independence.

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María Trinidad Sánchez Province

María Trinidad Sánchez is a province of the Dominican Republic.

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Matías Ramón Mella

Matías Ramón Mella Castillo (25 February 1816 – 4 June 1864), who was most known by his middle name (Ramón), was a Dominican revolutionary, politician, and military general.

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Mateo Morrison

Mateo Morrison Fortunato (born 14 April 1946) is a Dominican writer, lawyer, poet and essayist.

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Mauby

Mauby, also known as madi, maví, mobi, mabi, and maubi, is a tree bark-based beverage grown, and widely consumed, in the Caribbean.

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Merengue music

Merengue is a type of music and dance originating in present day Dominican Republic which has become a very popular genre throughout Latin America, and also in several major cities in the United States with Latino communities.

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Migration Policy Institute

The Migration Policy Institute (MPI) is an American non-partisan think tank established in 2001 by Kathleen Newland and Demetrios G. Papademetriou.

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Miguel Tejada

Miguel Odalis Tejada (Tejeda; born May 25, 1974) is a Dominican former professional baseball shortstop who played 16 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB).

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Millersville University of Pennsylvania

Millersville University of Pennsylvania (commonly known as Millersville University, The Ville, or MU) is a public university in Millersville, Pennsylvania.

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Milly Quezada

Milagros del Rosario Quezada Borbón (born May 21, 1955) is a Dominican-American singer specializing in Merengue.

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Ministry of foreign affairs

In many countries, the ministry of foreign affairs (abbreviated as MFA or MOFA) is the highest government department exclusively or primarily responsible for the state's foreign policy and relations, diplomacy, bilateral, and multilateral relations affairs as well as for providing support for a country's citizens who are abroad.

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Mirabal sisters

The Mirabal sisters (hermanas Mirabal) were four sisters from the Dominican Republic, three of whom (Patria, Minerva and María Teresa) opposed the dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo (el Jefe) and were involved in clandestine activities against his regime.

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Mixed Dominicans

Mixed Dominicans, also referred to as mulatto, mestizo or historically quadroon, are Dominicans who are of mixed racial ancestry.

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Moca, Dominican Republic

Moca is the capital of Espaillat province in the Cibao region of the Dominican Republic, and is the tenth-largest city of the country with a population of 173,442 inhabitants.

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Mona Passage

The Mona Passage (Canal de la Mona) is a strait that separates the islands of Hispaniola and Puerto Rico.

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Monastery of San Francisco, Santo Domingo

Monasterio de San Francisco in Santo Domingo de Guzmán, Dominican Republic, is a monastery that was built between 1508–1560, with the arrival of the Franciscan fathers.

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Monroe Doctrine

The Monroe Doctrine is a United States foreign policy position that opposes European colonialism in the Western Hemisphere.

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Monseñor Nouel Province

Monseñor Nouel is a province in the central region of the Dominican Republic.

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Monte Cristi Province

Monte Cristi is a province in the northwest of the Dominican Republic. Dominican Republic and Monte Cristi Province are states and territories established in 1844.

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Monte Cristi, Dominican Republic

San Fernando de Monte Cristi, also known as Montecristi, is the capital town of Monte Cristi Province in the Dominican Republic.

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Monte Plata

Monte Plata is a town and municipality (municipio) and the capital of the Monte Plata province in the Dominican Republic.

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Monte Plata Province

Monte Plata is an eastern province of the Dominican Republic, and also the name of its capital city.

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Montserrat

Montserrat is a British Overseas Territory in the Caribbean. Dominican Republic and Montserrat are island countries and small Island Developing States.

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Moravians

Moravians (Moravané or colloquially Moraváci, outdated Moravci) are a West Slavic ethnographic group from the Moravia region of the Czech Republic, who speak the Moravian dialects of Czech or Common Czech or a mixed form of both.

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Morir soñando

Morir soñando (To die dreaming) is a popular beverage of the Dominican Republic which has made its way to other Caribbean and Latin American countries, usually made of orange juice, milk, cane sugar, and chopped ice.

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Mortality rate

Mortality rate, or death rate, is a measure of the number of deaths (in general, or due to a specific cause) in a particular population, scaled to the size of that population, per unit of time.

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Mouchoir Bank

Mouchoir Bank, in Spanish also called Banco de Pañuelo Blanco, is a submerged bank that is part of the Turks and Caicos Islands and falls within its exclusive economic zone.

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Mulatto

Mulatto is a racial classification that refers to people of mixed African and European ancestry.

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Multi-party system

In political science, a multi-party system is a political system where more than two meaningfully-distinct political parties regularly run for office and win elections.

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Municipio

Municipio and município are administrative divisions in several Hispanophone and Lusophone nations, respectively.

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Music genre

A music genre is a conventional category that identifies some pieces of music as belonging to a shared tradition or set of conventions.

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Nagua

Nagua is the capital of María Trinidad Sánchez province, in the northeastern Dominican Republic.

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National Anthem of the Dominican Republic

The national anthem of the Dominican Republic (Himno nacional de República Dominicana), also known by its incipit Valiant Quisqueyans (Quisqueyanos valientes), was composed by José Rufino Reyes y Siancas (1835–1905), and its lyrics were authored by Emilio Prud'Homme (1856–1932).

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National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum

The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum is a history museum and hall of fame in Cooperstown, New York, operated by private interests.

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National Basketball Association

The National Basketball Association (NBA) is a professional basketball league in North America composed of 30 teams (29 in the United States and 1 in Canada).

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National Council of the Magistracy (Dominican Republic)

The National Council of the Magistracy (Consejo Nacional de la Magistratura) is the Dominican constitutional body responsible for appointing judges of the Supreme Court, the Constitutional Court and the Superior Electoral Court of the Dominican Republic.

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National Football League

The National Football League (NFL) is a professional American football league that consists of 32 teams, divided equally between the American Football Conference (AFC) and the National Football Conference (NFC).

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National Security Archive

The National Security Archive is a 501(c)(3) non-governmental, non-profit research and archival institution located on the campus of the George Washington University in Washington, D.C. Founded in 1985 to check rising government secrecy.

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National Statistics Institute (Spain)

The (INE) is the official agency in Spain that collects statistics about demography, economy, and Spanish society.

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National Statistics Office (Dominican Republic)

The National Statistics Office (Oficina Nacional de Estadística; ONE) of the Dominican Republic is the government institution in charge of collecting, reviewing, preparing and publishing national statistics on the economy, agricultural production, commerce, industry, finance, environment, society and demography.

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Navidad Bank

Navidad Bank (Banco de la Navidad) is a submerged bank in the Atlantic Ocean north of the Dominican Republic and southeast of the Territory of Turks & Caicos.

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Nazi Germany

Nazi Germany, officially known as the German Reich and later the Greater German Reich, was the German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it into a totalitarian dictatorship.

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Neiba

Neiba (also spelt Neyba) is a city in the southwest of the Dominican Republic.

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Nelson Cruz

Nelson Ramón Cruz Martínez Jr. (born July 1, 1980), nicknamed ”Boomstick” is a Dominican-American former professional baseball designated hitter and right fielder.

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Neoclassicism

Neoclassicism, also spelled Neo-classicism, emerged as a Western cultural movement in the decorative and visual arts, literature, theatre, music, and architecture that drew inspiration from the art and culture of classical antiquity.

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New World

The term "New World" is used to describe the majority of lands of Earth's Western Hemisphere, particularly the Americas.

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New York City

New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.

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North America

North America is a continent in the Northern and Western Hemispheres.

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Ocean bank

An ocean bank, sometimes referred to as a fishing bank or simply bank, is a part of the seabed that is shallow compared to its surrounding area, such as a shoal or the top of an underwater hill.

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Omar Minaya

Omar Teodoro Antonio Minaya y Sánchez (born November 10, 1958), whose nickname is O, is a Dominican baseball executive.

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Organisation internationale de la Francophonie

The Organisation internationale de la Francophonie (OIF; sometimes shortened to the Francophonie, La Francophonie, sometimes also called International Organisation of italic in English) is an international organization representing countries and regions where French is a lingua franca or customary language, where a significant proportion of the population are francophones (French speakers), or where there is a notable affiliation with French culture.

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Organization of American States

The Organization of American States (OAS or OEA; Organización de los Estados Americanos; Organização dos Estados Americanos; Organisation des États américains) is an international organization founded on 30 April 1948 to promote cooperation among its member states within the Americas.

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Oscar de la Renta

Óscar Arístides Renta Fiallo (22 July 1932 – 20 October 2014), known professionally as Oscar de la Renta, was a Dominican fashion designer.

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Outline of the Dominican Republic

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the Dominican Republic: Dominican Republic – sovereign state occupying the eastern five-eighths of the island of Hispaniola, in the Greater Antilles archipelago in the Caribbean region.

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Overseas Chinese

Overseas Chinese people are those of Chinese birth or ethnicity who reside outside mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau.

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Ozzie Virgil Sr.

Osvaldo José Virgil Pichardo (born May 17, 1932) is a Dominican former professional baseball player and coach.

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Palestine (region)

The region of Palestine, also known as Historic Palestine, is a geographical area in West Asia.

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Palestinians

Palestinians (al-Filasṭīniyyūn) or Palestinian people (label), also referred to as Palestinian Arabs (label), are an Arab ethnonational group native to Palestine.

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Palmchat

The palmchat (Dulus dominicus) is a small, long-tailed passerine bird, the only species in the genus Dulus and the family Dulidae endemic to the Caribbean island of Hispaniola (split between the Dominican Republic and Haiti).

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Palo music

Palo, also known as atabales is a Dominican (Dominican Republic) sacred music that can be found through the island.

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Pan-Latinism

Pan-Latinism is an ideology that promotes the unification of the Romance-speaking peoples.

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Panama Canal

The Panama Canal (Canal de Panamá) is an artificial waterway in Panama that connects the Atlantic Ocean with the Pacific Ocean, cutting across the Isthmus of Panama, and is a conduit for maritime trade.

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Parsley massacre

The Parsley massacre (Spanish: el corte "the cutting"; Creole: kout kouto-a "the stabbing") (Massacre du Persil; Masacre del Perejil; Masak nan Pèsil) was a mass killing of Haitians living in the Dominican Republic's northwestern frontier and in certain parts of the contiguous Cibao region in October 1937.

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Pasteles

Pasteles (singular pastel), also pastelles in the English-speaking Caribbean, are a traditional dish in several Latin American and Caribbean countries.

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Peace of Basel

The Peace of Basel of 1795 consists of three peace treaties involving France during the French Revolution (represented by François de Barthélemy).

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Peace of Ryswick

The Peace of Ryswick, or Rijswijk, was a series of treaties signed in the Dutch city of Rijswijk between 20 September and 30 October 1697.

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Peacekeeping

Peacekeeping comprises activities, especially military ones, intended to create conditions that favor lasting peace.

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Pedernales Province

Pedernales is the southernmost province of the Dominican Republic, including the offshore island of Isla Beata.

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Pedernales, Dominican Republic

The Dominican city of Pedernales is the capital of the Pedernales Province, in the Dominican Republic.

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Pedro Brand

Pedro Brand is a municipality (municipio) of the Santo Domingo province in the Dominican Republic.

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Pedro Martínez

Pedro Jaime Martínez (born October 25, 1971) is a Dominican-American former professional baseball starting pitcher, who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) from to, for five teams—most notably the Boston Red Sox from to.

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Pedro Mir

Pedro Julio Mir Valentín (3 June 1913, San Pedro de Macorís – 11 July 2000, Santo Domingo) was a Dominican poet and writer, named Poet Laureate of the Dominican Republic by Congress in 1984, and a member of the generation of "Independent poets of the 1940s" in Dominican poetry.

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Pedro Santana

Pedro Santana y Familias, 1st Marquess of Las Carreras (29 June 180114 June 1864) was a military commander and royalist politician who served as the president of the junta that had established the First Dominican Republic, a precursor to the position of the President of the Dominican Republic, and as the first President of the republic in the modern line of succession.

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Penguin Books

Penguin Books Limited is a British publishing house.

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Pentecostalism

Pentecostalism or classical Pentecostalism is a Protestant Charismatic Christian movement that emphasizes direct personal experience of God through baptism with the Holy Spirit.

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People of the Dominican Republic

Dominicans (Dominicanos) are an ethno-national people, a people of shared ancestry and culture, who have ancestral roots in the Dominican Republic.

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Peravia Province

Peravia is a province in the southern region of the Dominican Republic.

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Pico Duarte

Pico Duarte is the highest peak in the Dominican Republic, on the island of Hispaniola and in all the Caribbean.

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Plantation economy

A plantation economy is an economy based on agricultural mass production, usually of a few commodity crops, grown on large farms worked by laborers or slaves.

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Plácido Polanco

Plácido Enrique Polanco (born October 10, 1975) is a Dominican-American former professional baseball player.

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Plus Ultra Brigade

The Plus Ultra Brigade, or Brigada Hispanoamericana, was a military contingent of mixed personnel from Spain (some 1,300 troops), the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Honduras, and Nicaragua (about 1,200 troops between the four), which was commissioned to support coalition troops in the Iraq War.

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Pomier Caves

The Pomier Caves are a series of 55 caves located north of San Cristobal in the south of the Dominican Republic.

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Popular culture

Popular culture (also called mass culture or pop culture) is generally recognized by members of a society as a set of practices, beliefs, artistic output (also known as popular art or mass art) and objects that are dominant or prevalent in a society at a given point in time.

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President of the Dominican Republic

The president of the Dominican Republic (Presidente de la República Dominicana) is both the head of state and head of government of the Dominican Republic.

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Presidential system

A presidential system, or single executive system, is a form of government in which a head of government, typically with the title of president, leads an executive branch that is separate from the legislative branch in systems that use separation of powers.

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Proposed annexation of Santo Domingo

The proposed annexation of Santo Domingo was an attempted treaty during the later Reconstruction era, initiated by United States President Ulysses S. Grant in 1869, to annex Santo Domingo (as the Dominican Republic was commonly known) as a United States territory, with the promise of eventual statehood.

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Protestantism

Protestantism is a branch of Christianity that emphasizes justification of sinners through faith alone, the teaching that salvation comes by unmerited divine grace, the priesthood of all believers, and the Bible as the sole infallible source of authority for Christian faith and practice.

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Provinces of the Dominican Republic

The Dominican Republic is divided into thirty-one provincias (provinces; singular provincia), while the national capital, Santo Domingo, is contained within its own Distrito Nacional ("National District"; "D.N." on the map below).

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Pueblo Viejo mine

Pueblo Viejo mine is an open-pit gold and silver mine in the Sánchez Ramírez Province of the Dominican Republic where mining operations started in 2012 and expect to cease in 2041. It is the largest gold mine in Latin America and 13th largest gold mine in the world. The mine is run by Pueblo Viejo Dominicana Corporation (PVDC), which is 60% owned by Barrick Gold Corporation and 40% owned by Newmont Corporation.

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Puerto Plata Province

Puerto Plata (Silver Port); (Port-de-Plate) is a province in northern Dominican Republic. Dominican Republic and Puerto Plata Province are states and territories established in 1844.

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Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic

Puerto Plata, officially known as San Felipe de Puerto Plata; (Port-de-Plate) is a major coastal city in the Dominican Republic, and capital of the province of Puerto Plata.

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Puerto Ricans

Puerto Ricans (Puertorriqueños), most commonly known as '''Boricuas''', but also occasionally referred to as Borinqueños, Borincanos, or Puertorros, are an ethnic group native to the Caribbean archipelago and island of Puerto Rico, and a nation identified with the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico through ancestry, culture, or history.

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Puerto Rico

-;. Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico are former Spanish colonies, former colonies in North America, Greater Antilles, island countries, new Spain, small Island Developing States, Spanish West Indies, Spanish colonization of the Americas and Spanish-speaking countries and territories.

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Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes that are annually awarded for Letters, Drama, and Music.

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Punta Cana

Punta Cana is a resort town in the easternmost region of the Dominican Republic.

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Purchasing power parity

Purchasing power parity (PPP) is a measure of the price of specific goods in different countries and is used to compare the absolute purchasing power of the countries' currencies.

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Rafael Trujillo

Rafael Leónidas Trujillo Molina (24 October 1891 – 30 May 1961), nicknamed El Jefe, was a Dominican military commander and dictator who ruled the Dominican Republic from August 1930 until his assassination in May 1961.

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Ramón Báez Figueroa

Ramón Buenaventura Báez Figueroa (born 1956) is the former president of Banco Intercontinental (BANINTER) from the Dominican Republic, accused in 2003 of masterminding the country's most spectacular banking fraud scandal, amounting to more than US$2.2 billion ($ billion today).

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Ramón Cáceres

Ramón Arturo Cáceres Vasquez (15 December 1866, Moca, Dominican Republic – 19 November 1911, Santo Domingo), nicknamed Mon Cáceres, was a Dominican Republic politician and minister of the Armed Forces.

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Ramfis Trujillo

Rafael Leónidas Trujillo Martínez (5 June 1929 – 27 December 1969), better known as Ramfis Trujillo Martínez, was the son of Rafael Leónidas Trujillo, dictator of the Dominican Republic, after whose 1961 assassination he briefly held power.

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Rapid transit

Rapid transit or mass rapid transit (MRT), commonly referred to as metro, is a type of high-capacity public transport that is generally built in urban areas.

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Raquel Peña de Antuña

Raquel Peña Rodríguez de Antuña (born 10 September 1966) is a Dominican politician and academic who has served as Vice President of the Dominican Republic since 2020.

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Rómulo Betancourt

Rómulo Ernesto Betancourt Bello (22 February 1908 – 28 September 1981), known as "The Father of Venezuelan Democracy", was the president of Venezuela, from 1945 to 1948 and again from 1959 to 1964, as well as leader of Acción Democrática, Venezuela's dominant political party in the 20th century.

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Realism (arts)

Realism in the arts is generally the attempt to represent subject matter truthfully, without artificiality and avoiding speculative and supernatural elements.

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Recession

In economics, a recession is a business cycle contraction that occurs when there is a general decline in economic activity.

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Reggaeton

Reggaeton, is a modern style of popular music that originated in Puerto Rico during the late 1990s.

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Religion in the Dominican Republic

Christianity is the most widely professed religion in the Dominican Republic.

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Remittance

A remittance is a non-commercial transfer of money by a foreign worker, a member of a diaspora community, or a citizen with familial ties abroad, for household income in their home country or homeland.

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Representative democracy

Representative democracy (also called electoral democracy or indirect democracy) is a type of democracy where representatives are elected by the public.

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Republic of Spanish Haiti

The Republic of Spanish Haiti (República del Haití Español), also called the Independent State of Spanish Haiti (Estado Independiente del Haití Español) was the independent state that succeeded the Captaincy General of Santo Domingo after independence was declared on November 30, 1821 by José Núñez de Cáceres.

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Rice pudding

Rice pudding is a dish made from rice mixed with water or milk and commonly other ingredients such as sweeteners, spices, flavourings and sometimes eggs.

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Rico Carty

Ricardo Adolfo Jacobo Carty (born September 1, 1939), nicknamed "Beeg Boy", is a Dominican former professional baseball player.

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Robinson Canó

Robinson José Canó Mercedes (born October 22, 1982) is a Dominican-American professional baseball second baseman for the Diablos Rojos del México of the Mexican League; he also captains the Estrellas Orientales of the Dominican Professional Baseball League.

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Romanticism

Romanticism (also known as the Romantic movement or Romantic era) was an artistic and intellectual movement that originated in Europe towards the end of the 18th century.

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Roosevelt Corollary

In the history of United States foreign policy, the Roosevelt Corollary was an addition to the Monroe Doctrine articulated by President Theodore Roosevelt in his State of the Union address in 1904, largely as a consequence of the Venezuelan crisis of 1902–1903.

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Routledge

Routledge is a British multinational publisher.

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Rowman & Littlefield

Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group is an American independent academic publishing company founded in 1949.

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Rum

Rum is a liquor made by fermenting and then distilling sugarcane molasses or sugarcane juice.

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Russians

Russians (russkiye) are an East Slavic ethnic group native to Eastern Europe.

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Sabaneta, Dominican Republic

San Ignacio de Sabaneta is the capital and a municipality of Santiago Rodriguez in the northwestern part of the Dominican Republic.

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Saint Croix

Saint Croix (Santa Cruz; Sint-Kruis; Sainte-Croix; Danish and Sankt Croix; Ay Ay) is an island in the Caribbean Sea, and a county and constituent district of the United States Virgin Islands (USVI), an unincorporated territory of the United States.

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Saint Dominic

Saint Dominic, (Santo Domingo; 8 August 1170 – 6 August 1221), also known as Dominic de Guzmán, was a Castilian-French Catholic priest and the founder of the Dominican Order.

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Saint Kitts and Nevis

Saint Kitts and Nevis, officially the Federation of Saint Kitts and Nevis, is an island country consisting of the two islands of Saint Kitts and Nevis, both located in the West Indies, in the Leeward Islands chain of the Lesser Antilles. Dominican Republic and Saint Kitts and Nevis are countries in North America, countries in the Caribbean, island countries, member states of the United Nations and small Island Developing States.

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Saint Martin (island)

Saint Martin (Saint-Martin; Sint Maarten) is an island in the northeast Caribbean, approximately east of Puerto Rico.

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Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands

Saint Thomas (Sankt Thomas, Santo Tomás, Saint-Thomas) is one of the Virgin Islands in the Caribbean Sea, and a constituent district of the United States Virgin Islands (USVI), an unincorporated territory of the United States.

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Saint Vincent (Saint Vincent and the Grenadines)

Saint Vincent is a volcanic island in the Caribbean.

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Saint-Domingue

Saint-Domingue was a French colony in the western portion of the Caribbean island of Hispaniola, in the area of modern-day Haiti, from 1697 to 1804. Dominican Republic and Saint-Domingue are former French colonies, former colonies in North America and island countries.

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Salcedo, Dominican Republic

Salcedo is the capital city of the Hermanas Mirabal Province in the Dominican Republic.

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Salsa music

Salsa music is a style of Caribbean music, combining elements of Cuban, Puerto Rican, and American influences.

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Salt lake

A salt lake or saline lake is a landlocked body of water that has a concentration of salts (typically sodium chloride) and other dissolved minerals significantly higher than most lakes (often defined as at least three grams of salt per litre).

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Salvador Jorge Blanco

José Salvador Omar Jorge Blanco (July 5, 1926 – December 26, 2010) was a politician, lawyer and a writer.

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Samana Bay Company of Santo Domingo

The Samana Bay Company of Santo Domingo was a company established in the mid-19th century with the aim of developing the Samaná Peninsula in the Dominican Republic.

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Samaná (town)

Samaná (old spelling: Xamaná), in full Santa Bárbara de Samaná, is a town and municipality in northeastern Dominican Republic and the capital of Samaná Province.

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Samaná Bay

Samaná Bay is a bay in the eastern Dominican Republic.

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Samaná English

Samaná English (SE and SAX) is a variety of the English language spoken by descendants of black immigrants from the United States who have lived in the Samaná Peninsula, now in the Dominican Republic.

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Samaná Peninsula

The Samaná Península is a peninsula in Dominican Republic situated in the province of Samaná.

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Samaná Province

Samaná is a province of the Dominican Republic in the Samaná Peninsula located in the eastern region.

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Sammy Sosa

Samuel Peralta Sosa (born November 12, 1968) is a Dominican-American former professional baseball right fielder.

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San Antonio de Guerra

San Antonio de Guerra is a municipality (municipio) of the Santo Domingo province in the Dominican Republic.

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San Cristóbal Province

San Cristóbal is a province in the southern region of Dominican Republic, located west of the capital Santo Domingo.

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San Cristóbal, Dominican Republic

San Cristóbal is a city in the southern region of Dominican Republic.

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San Francisco de Macorís

San Francisco de Macorís is a city in the Dominican Republic located in the northeast portion of the island, in the Cibao region.

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San Gregorio de Nigua

San Gregorio de Nigua is a municipality (municipio) of the San Cristóbal province in the Dominican Republic.

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San José de Ocoa

San José de Ocoa, or simply Ocoa, is the capital of San José de Ocoa province in the Dominican Republic.

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San José de Ocoa Province

San José de Ocoa is a province in the southern region of the Dominican Republic, and also the name of the province's capital city.

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San Juan de la Maguana

San Juan de la Maguana is a city and municipality in the western region of the Dominican Republic and capital of the San Juan province.

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San Juan Province (Dominican Republic)

San Juan is a province of the Dominican Republic.

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San Pedro de Macorís

San Pedro de Macorís is a city and municipality (municipio) in the Dominican Republic.

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San Pedro de Macorís Province

San Pedro de Macorís is a province of the Dominican Republic, also the name of its capital city. Dominican Republic and San Pedro de Macorís Province are states and territories established in 1844.

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Sancocho

Sancocho (from the Spanish verb sancochar, "to parboil") is a traditional stew in several Caribbean cuisine and Latin American cuisines.

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Santiago de los Caballeros

Santiago de los Caballeros (Saint James of the Knights), often shortened to Santiago, is the second-largest city in the Dominican Republic and the fourth-largest city in the Caribbean by population.

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Santiago Light Rail

The Santiago Light Rail is a planned light rail system within the City of Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic, and the Cibao International Airport.

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Santiago Province (Dominican Republic)

Santiago is a province which currently comprises one of the 32 provinces of the Dominican Republic. Dominican Republic and Santiago Province (Dominican Republic) are states and territories established in 1844.

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Santiago Rodríguez Province

Santiago Rodríguez is a province in the northwest region of the Dominican Republic.

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Santo Domingo

Santo Domingo (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. Dominican Republic and Santo Domingo are Spanish West Indies.

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Santo Domingo Este

Santo Domingo Este is a municipality and the provincial capital of the Santo Domingo province in the Dominican Republic.

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Santo Domingo Norte

Santo Domingo Norte is a municipality of the Santo Domingo Province in the Dominican Republic.

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Santo Domingo Oeste

Santo Domingo Oeste is a municipality of the Santo Domingo province in the Dominican Republic.

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Santo Domingo Province

Santo Domingo is a province of the Dominican Republic.

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Saona Island

Saona Island (Isla Saona) is a 110 square kilometer tropical island located off the south-east coast in Dominican Republic's La Altagracia province.

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Savanna

A savanna or savannah is a mixed woodland-grassland (i.e. grassy woodland) biome and ecosystem characterised by the trees being sufficiently widely spaced so that the canopy does not close.

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Sánchez Ramírez Province

Sánchez Ramírez is a province that constituting one of the 32 provinces of the Dominican Republic.

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Second Dominican Republic

The Second Dominican Republic was a predecessor of the Dominican Republic and began with the restoration of the country in 1865 and culminated with the American intervention in 1916.

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Senate of the Dominican Republic

The Senate of the Dominican Republic (Senado de la República Dominicana) is the upper house in the bicameral legislature of the Dominican Republic, and together with the Chamber of Deputies makes up the Congress.

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Sephardic Jews

Sephardic Jews (Djudíos Sefardíes), also known as Sephardi Jews or Sephardim, and rarely as Iberian Peninsular Jews, are a Jewish diaspora population associated with the Iberian Peninsula (Spain and Portugal).

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Sergio Vargas

Sergio Pascual Vargas Parra (Villa Altagracia, Dominican Republic, March 15, 1960) is a performer of merengue and bolero, who was very popular in the 80s and 90s, during the "Golden Age of Merengue" and today remains active as one of the leading figures in Dominican merengue.

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Seventh-day Adventist Church

The Seventh-day Adventist Church (SDA) is an Adventist Protestant Christian denomination which is distinguished by its observance of Saturday, the seventh day of the week in the Christian (Gregorian) and the Hebrew calendar, as the Sabbath, its emphasis on the imminent Second Coming (advent) of Jesus Christ, and its annihilationist soteriology.

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Silver Bank

Silver Bank (Banco de la Plata) is a submerged bank in the Atlantic Ocean north of the Dominican Republic and southeast of the territory of Turks and Caicos Islands.

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Smallpox

Smallpox was an infectious disease caused by variola virus (often called smallpox virus), which belongs to the genus Orthopoxvirus.

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Smithsonian (magazine)

Smithsonian is a science and nature magazine (and associated website, SmithsonianMag.com), and is the official journal published by the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., although editorially independent from its parent organization.

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Snow cone

A snow cone (or snow kone, sno kone, sno-kone, sno cone, or sno-cone) is a variation of shaved ice or ground-up ice desserts commonly served in paper cones or foam cups.

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Social Christian Reformist Party

The Social Christian Reformist Party (Partido Reformista Social Cristiano, PRSC) is a Christian democratic right-wing political party in the Dominican Republic.

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Social democracy

Social democracy is a political, social, and economic philosophy within socialism that supports political and economic democracy and supports a gradualist, reformist and democratic approach towards achieving socialism.

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Sofrito

Sofrito (Spanish), sofregit (Catalan), soffritto (Italian), or refogado (Portuguese), is a basic preparation in Mediterranean, Latin American, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese cooking.

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Sosúa

Sosúa is a beach town in the Puerto Plata province of the Dominican Republic approximately from the Gregorio Luperón International Airport in San Felipe de Puerto Plata.

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Sovereign state

A sovereign state is a state that has the highest authority over a territory.

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Spain

Spain, formally the Kingdom of Spain, is a country located in Southwestern Europe, with parts of its territory in the Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea and Africa. Dominican Republic and Spain are member states of the United Nations and Spanish-speaking countries and territories.

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Spaniards

Spaniards, or Spanish people, are a people native to Spain.

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Spanish America

Spanish America refers to the Spanish territories in the Americas during the Spanish colonization of the Americas.

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Spanish American wars of independence

The Spanish American wars of independence (Guerras de independencia hispanoamericanas) took place throughout Spanish America during the early 19th century, with the aim of political independence from Spanish rule. Dominican Republic and Spanish American wars of independence are Spanish colonization of the Americas.

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Spanish Empire

The Spanish Empire, sometimes referred to as the Hispanic Monarchy or the Catholic Monarchy, was a colonial empire that existed between 1492 and 1976. Dominican Republic and Spanish Empire are Christian states and Spanish colonization of the Americas.

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Spanish language

Spanish (español) or Castilian (castellano) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from the Vulgar Latin spoken on the Iberian Peninsula of Europe.

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SS Presidente Trujillo

SS Presidente Trujillo was a Dominican Cargo ship that was torpedoed by the German submarine ''U-156'' in the Caribbean Sea off Fort-de-France, Martinique on 21 May 1942 while she was travelling from Fort-de-France, Martinique to San Juan, Puerto Rico carrying a cargo of beer, machinery and forage.

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Strafing

Strafing is the military practice of attacking ground targets from low-flying aircraft using aircraft-mounted automatic weapons.

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Sub-Saharan Africa

Sub-Saharan Africa, Subsahara, or Non-Mediterranean Africa is the area and regions of the continent of Africa that lie south of the Sahara.

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Sugarcane

Sugarcane or sugar cane is a species of tall, perennial grass (in the genus Saccharum, tribe Andropogoneae) that is used for sugar production.

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Sweet potato

The sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas) is a dicotyledonous plant that belongs to the bindweed or morning glory family, Convolvulaceae.

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Swietenia mahagoni

Swietenia mahagoni, commonly known as American mahogany, Cuban mahogany, small-leaved mahogany, and West Indian mahogany, is a species of Swietenia native to the broader Caribbean bioregion.

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Swiss franc

The Swiss franc, or simply the franc (Swiss German; franc; franco; franc), is the currency and legal tender of Switzerland and Liechtenstein.

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Swiss people

The Swiss people (die Schweizer, les Suisses, gli Svizzeri, ils Svizzers) are the citizens of the multi-ethnic Swiss Confederation (Switzerland) regardless of ethno-cultural background or people of self-identified Swiss ancestry.

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Syncopation

In music, syncopation is a variety of rhythms played together to make a piece of music, making part or all of a tune or piece of music off-beat.

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Syncretism

Syncretism is the practice of combining different beliefs and various schools of thought.

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Syria

Syria, officially the Syrian Arab Republic, is a country in West Asia located in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Levant. Dominican Republic and Syria are member states of the United Nations.

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Syrians

Syrians (سوريون) are the majority inhabitants of Syria, indigenous to the Levant, who have Arabic, especially its Levantine dialect, as a mother tongue.

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Taíno

The Taíno were a historic Indigenous peoples of the Caribbean, whose culture has been continued today by Taíno descendant communities and Taíno revivalist communities. Dominican Republic and Taíno are Spanish West Indies.

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Taíno language

Taíno is an extinct Arawakan language that was spoken by the Taíno people of the Caribbean.

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Tabbouleh

Tabbouleh (translit), also transcribed tabouleh, tabbouli, tabouli, or taboulah, is a Levantine salad made mostly of finely chopped parsley, with tomatoes, mint, onion, soaked uncooked bulgur, and seasoned with olive oil, lemon juice, salt and sweet pepper.

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Taekwondo

Taekwondo is a Korean martial art and combat sport involving punching and kicking techniques.

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Tambora (Dominican drum)

The Dominican tambora (from the Spanish word tambor, meaning "drum") is a two headed drum played in merengue music.

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Tapioca

Tapioca is a starch extracted from the tubers of the cassava plant (Manihot esculenta, also known as manioc), a species native to the North and Northeast regions of Brazil, but whose use is now spread throughout South America.

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Telecommunications in the Dominican Republic

Telecommunications in the Dominican Republic include radio, television, fixed and mobile telephones, and the Internet.

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The Atlantic

The Atlantic is an American magazine and multi-platform publisher.

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The Bahamas

The Bahamas, officially the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, is an island country within the Lucayan Archipelago of the Atlantic Ocean. Dominican Republic and the Bahamas are countries in North America, countries in the Caribbean, island countries, member states of the United Nations and small Island Developing States.

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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao is a 2007 novel written by Dominican American author Junot Díaz.

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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, informally known as the LDS Church or Mormon Church, is the largest Latter Day Saint denomination, tracing its roots to its founding by Joseph Smith during the Second Great Awakening.

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The Morning Call

The Morning Call is a daily newspaper in Allentown, Pennsylvania.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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The World Factbook

The World Factbook, also known as the CIA World Factbook, is a reference resource produced by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) with almanac-style information about the countries of the world.

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Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt Jr. (October 27, 1858 – January 6, 1919), often referred to as Teddy or T.R., was an American politician, soldier, conservationist, historian, naturalist, explorer and writer who served as the 26th president of the United States from 1901 to 1909.

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Third Dominican Republic

The Third Dominican Republic was a predecessor of the Dominican Republic and existed from 12 July 1924 with the departure of American troops after the end of the first American occupation, until 28 April 1965 with the disembarkation of American troops after the start of the April 1965 War and the second American occupation.

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Time (magazine)

Time (stylized in all caps as TIME) is an American news magazine based in New York City.

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Tito Horford

Alfredo William "Tito" Horford (born January 19, 1966) is a Dominican retired professional basketball player who was selected by the Milwaukee Bucks in the second round (39th overall) of the 1988 NBA draft.

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Toño Rosario

Máximo Antonio del Rosario (born November 3, 1955), known as Toño Rosario, is a Grammy Award nominee musician, best known for his role of bandleader of Merengue music act Los Hermanos Rosario.

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Tomás Bobadilla

Tomás Bobadilla y Briones (30 March 1785 – 21 December 1871) was a writer, intellectual and politician from the Dominican Republic.

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Tortola

Tortola is the largest and most populated island of the British Virgin Islands, a group of islands that form part of the archipelago of the Virgin Islands.

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Tostones

Tostones (from the Spanish verb tostar which means "to toast") are twice-fried plantain slices commonly found in Latin American cuisine and Caribbean cuisine.

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Toussaint Louverture

François-Dominique Toussaint Louverture also known as Toussaint L'Ouverture or Toussaint Bréda (20 May 1743 – 7 April 1803), was a Haitian general and the most prominent leader of the Haitian Revolution.

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Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons

The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW), or the Nuclear Weapon Ban Treaty, is the first legally binding international agreement to comprehensively prohibit nuclear weapons with the ultimate goal being their total elimination.

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Tributary

A tributary, or an affluent, is a stream or river that flows into a larger stream (main stem or "parent"), river, or a lake.

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Tropical cyclone

A tropical cyclone is a rapidly rotating storm system with a low-pressure center, a closed low-level atmospheric circulation, strong winds, and a spiral arrangement of thunderstorms that produce heavy rain and squalls.

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Tropical rainforest climate

A tropical rainforest climate or equatorial climate is a tropical climate sub-type usually found within 10 to 15 degrees latitude of the equator.

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Tropical savanna climate

Tropical savanna climate or tropical wet and dry climate is a tropical climate sub-type that corresponds to the Köppen climate classification categories Aw (for a dry "winter") and As (for a dry "summer").

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Turks and Caicos Islands

The Turks and Caicos Islands (abbreviated TCI; and) are a British Overseas Territory consisting of the larger Caicos Islands and smaller Turks Islands, two groups of tropical islands in the Lucayan Archipelago of the Atlantic Ocean and northern West Indies.

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Two Chinas

The concept of Two Chinas refers to the political divide between the People's Republic of China (PRC) and the Republic of China (ROC).

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Ubaldo Jiménez

Ubaldo Jiménez García (born January 22, 1984) is a Dominican-American former professional baseball pitcher.

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Ulises Heureaux

Ulises Hilarión Heureaux Leibert (October 21, 1845 – July 26, 1899) nicknamed Lilís, was president of the Dominican Republic from September 1, 1882 to September 1, 1884, from January 6, 1887 to February 27, 1889 and again from April 30, 1889 maintaining power between his terms until his assassination by Ramón Cáceres.

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Ulysses S. Grant

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UNESCO

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO; pronounced) is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) with the aim of promoting world peace and security through international cooperation in education, arts, sciences and culture.

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United Nations Development Programme

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)Programme des Nations unies pour le développement, PNUD is a United Nations agency tasked with helping countries eliminate poverty and achieve sustainable economic growth and human development.

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United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime

The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC; French: Office des Nations unies contre la drogue et le crime) is a United Nations office that was established in 1997 as the Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention by combining the United Nations International Drug Control Program (UNDCP) and the Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Division in the United Nations Office at Vienna, adopting the current name in 2002.

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United Nations Population Fund

The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), formerly the United Nations Fund for Population Activities, is a UN agency aimed at improving reproductive and maternal health worldwide.

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United States Department of Labor

The United States Department of Labor (DOL) is one of the executive departments of the U.S. federal government.

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United States Department of State

The United States Department of State (DOS), or simply the State Department, is an executive department of the U.S. federal government responsible for the country's foreign policy and relations.

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United States dollar

The United States dollar (symbol: $; currency code: USD; also abbreviated US$ to distinguish it from other dollar-denominated currencies; referred to as the dollar, U.S. dollar, American dollar, or colloquially buck) is the official currency of the United States and several other countries.

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United States Marine Corps

The United States Marine Corps (USMC), also referred to as the United States Marines, is the maritime land force service branch of the United States Armed Forces responsible for conducting expeditionary and amphibious operations through combined arms, implementing its own infantry, artillery, aerial, and special operations forces.

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United States occupation of Haiti

The United States occupation of Haiti began on July 28, 1915, when 330 U.S. Marines landed at Port-au-Prince, Haiti, after the National City Bank of New York convinced the President of the United States, Woodrow Wilson, to take control of Haiti's political and financial interests.

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United States Secretary of War

The secretary of war was a member of the U.S. president's Cabinet, beginning with George Washington's administration.

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United States Senate

The United States Senate is the upper chamber of the United States Congress.

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Universal Newsreel

Universal Newsreel (sometimes known as Universal-International Newsreel or just U-I Newsreel) was a series of 7- to 10-minute newsreels that were released twice a week between 1929 and 1967 by Universal Studios.

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Universidad Santo Tomás de Aquino

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University of North Carolina Press

The University of North Carolina Press (or UNC Press), founded in 1922, is a not-for-profit university press associated with the University of North Carolina.

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Valverde Province

Valverde is a province of the Dominican Republic.

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Variation (linguistics)

Variation is a characteristic of language: there is more than one way of saying the same thing in a given language.

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Venezuela

Venezuela, officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, is a country on the northern coast of South America, consisting of a continental landmass and many islands and islets in the Caribbean Sea. Dominican Republic and Venezuela are former Spanish colonies, member states of the United Nations and Spanish-speaking countries and territories.

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Venezuelans

Venezuelans (Spanish: venezolanos) are the citizens identified with the country of Venezuela.

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Vernacular

Vernacular is the ordinary, informal, spoken form of language, particularly when perceived as being of lower social status in contrast to standard language, which is more codified, institutional, literary, or formal.

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Vice president of the Dominican Republic

The vice president of the Dominican Republic (Vicepresidente de la República Dominicana) is the second-highest political position in the Dominican Republic.

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Vicini

The Vicini family is the wealthiest family in the Dominican Republic and is best known for their vast holdings in the sugar industry.

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Villa Altagracia

Villa Altagracia is a municipality (municipio) of the San Cristóbal province in the Dominican Republic.

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Villa Hermosa

Villa Hermosa is a town in the La Romana province of the Dominican Republic.

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Visa policy of the Dominican Republic

Visitors to the Dominican Republic must obtain a visa from one of the Dominican Republic diplomatic missions unless they are citizens of one of the visa-exempt countries.

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Vladimir Guerrero

Vladimir Guerrero Alvino Sr. (born February 9, 1975), nicknamed "Vlad the Impaler", is a Dominican former professional baseball player who spent 16 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a right fielder and designated hitter.

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Volleyball

Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net.

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Volt

The volt (symbol: V) is the unit of electric potential, electric potential difference (voltage), and electromotive force in the International System of Units (SI).

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Voyages of Christopher Columbus

Between 1492 and 1504, the Italian navigator and explorer Christopher Columbus led four transatlantic maritime expeditions in the name of the Catholic Monarchs of Spain to the Caribbean and to Central and South America.

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War of the Pyrenees

The War of the Pyrenees, also known as War of Roussillon or War of the Convention, was the Pyrenean front of the First Coalition's war against the First French Republic.

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West Asia

West Asia, also called Western Asia or Southwest Asia, is the westernmost region of Asia.

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Western Hemisphere

The Western Hemisphere is the half of the planet Earth that lies west of the Prime Meridian—which crosses Greenwich, London, England—and east of the 180th meridian.

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Wet season

The wet season (sometimes called the rainy season or monsoon season) is the time of year when most of a region's average annual rainfall occurs.

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White Dominicans

White Dominicans ("Dominicanos blancos") are Dominican people of predominant or full European descent.

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Wi-Fi

Wi-Fi is a family of wireless network protocols based on the IEEE 802.11 family of standards, which are commonly used for local area networking of devices and Internet access, allowing nearby digital devices to exchange data by radio waves.

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Wilfrido Vargas

Wilfrido Radamés Vargas Martínez (born April 24, 1949, in Altamira, Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic) is a band leader, trumpeter, vocalist, arranger, composer and producer who was instrumental in making the merengue style a worldwide phenomenon.

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William Howard Taft

William Howard Taft (September 15, 1857March 8, 1930) was the 27th president of the United States, serving from 1909 to 1913, and the tenth chief justice of the United States, serving from 1921 to 1930, the only person to have held both offices.

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Woodrow Wilson

Thomas Woodrow Wilson (December 28, 1856February 3, 1924) was an American politician and academic who served as the 28th president of the United States from 1913 to 1921.

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World Bank

The World Bank is an international financial institution that provides loans and grants to the governments of low- and middle-income countries for the purpose of pursuing capital projects.

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World Baseball Classic

The World Baseball Classic (WBC), also referred to as the Classic, is an international baseball tournament sanctioned by the World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC), the sport's global governing body, and organized in partnership with Major League Baseball (MLB) and Major League Baseball Players Association (MLBPA).

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World Economic Forum

The World Economic Forum (WEF) is an international non-governmental organization, think tank, and lobbying organisation based in Cologny, Canton of Geneva, Switzerland.

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World Heritage Site

World Heritage Sites are landmarks and areas with legal protection by an international convention administered by UNESCO for having cultural, historical, or scientific significance.

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World Tourism rankings

The World Tourism rankings are compiled by the United Nations World Tourism Organization as part of their World Tourism Barometer publication, which is released up to six times per year.

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World War II

World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.

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Xenophobia

Xenophobia (from ξένος (xénos), "strange, foreign, or alien", and (phóbos), "fear") is the fear or dislike of anything which is perceived as being foreign or strange.

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Yam (vegetable)

Yam is the common name for some plant species in the genus Dioscorea (family Dioscoreaceae) that form edible tubers (some other species in the genus being toxic).

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Yaque del Norte River

The Yaque Del Norte River (Spanish, Río Yaque del Norte) is the longest river in the Dominican Republic, as well as the second longest river on Hispaniola, behind the Artibonite River.

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Yaque del Sur River

The Yaque del Sur River (Spanish, Río Yaque del Sur) is a river in the southwestern Dominican Republic.

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Youth in the Dominican Republic

Youth in the Dominican Republic constitutes just over 30% of the total population.

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Yuna River

The Yuna River (Spanish: Río Yuna) is the second longest river in the Dominican Republic, stretching for a length of 185.17 km (115.06 miles).

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.do

.do is the country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for the Dominican Republic.

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2010 Dominican Republic census

The 2010 Dominican Republic census is the ninth Dominican Republic national census, raised from 1–7 December 2010, during the presidency of Leonel Fernández.

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2020 Dominican Republic general election

General elections were held in the Dominican Republic on 5 July 2020 to elect a president, vice-president, 32 senators and 190 deputies.

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2020 Dominican Republic protests

The 2020 protests in the Dominican Republic, also known as the youth movement, comprise a series of massive congregations, both in the Dominican Republic and internationally, which took place from Sunday, February 16 to Thursday, March 12, 2020, as a result of the Central Electoral Board suspending municipal elections for the first time in the entire history of national democracy.

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2024 Dominican Republic general election

General elections were held in the Dominican Republic on 19 May 2024 to elect a president, vice-president, 32 senators, 190 deputies and 20 PARLACEN deputies.

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3G

3G is the third generation of wireless mobile telecommunications technology.

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See also

1492 establishments in the Spanish West Indies

• Columbian Viceroyalty
• Cruz de la Parra
• Dominican Republic
• Haiti
• List of colonial governors of Santo Domingo
• Spanish West Indies

1821 establishments in the Dominican Republic

• Dominican Republic
• El Duende (newspaper)

1822 establishments in Haiti

• Dominican Republic

1844 disestablishments in Haiti

• Dominican Republic

1844 establishments in North America

• Dominican Republic

1861 establishments in the Spanish West Indies

• Dominican Republic
• List of colonial governors of Santo Domingo

1865 disestablishments in the Spanish West Indies

• Dominican Republic
• List of colonial governors of Santo Domingo

Countries in North America

• Antigua and Barbuda
• Barbados
• Belize
• Canada
• Costa Rica
• Cuba
• Dominica
• Dominican Republic
• El Salvador
• Grenada
• Guatemala
• Haiti
• Honduras
• Jamaica
• List of North American countries by GDP (PPP)
• List of North American countries by GDP (PPP) per capita
• List of North American countries by GDP (nominal)
• List of North American countries by GDP (nominal) per capita
• Mexico
• Nicaragua
• Panama
• Saint Kitts and Nevis
• Saint Lucia
• Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
• The Bahamas
• Trinidad and Tobago
• United States

Countries in the Caribbean

• Antigua and Barbuda
• Barbados
• Cuba
• Dominica
• Dominican Republic
• Grenada
• Haiti
• Jamaica
• Saint Kitts and Nevis
• Saint Lucia
• Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
• The Bahamas
• Trinidad and Tobago

Greater Antilles

• Anglo-French War (1778–1783)
• Antillean Confederation
• Antilles
• Cayman Islands
• Cuba
• Dominican Republic
• Effects of Hurricane Sandy in the Greater Antilles
• Eleutherodactylus portoricensis
• Erechthis
• Erechthis levyi
• Greater Antilles
• Haiti
• Hispaniola
• Islands of Cuba
• Islands of Haiti
• Islands of Jamaica
• Islands of Puerto Rico
• Islands of the Cayman Islands
• Islands of the Dominican Republic
• Jamaica
• List of Indigenous names of Caribbean islands
• Navassa Island
• Pre-Arawakan languages of the Greater Antilles
• Puerto Rico

Spanish-speaking countries and territories

• Alta California
• Andorra
• Argentina
• Belize
• Bolivia
• Captaincy General of Chile
• Captaincy General of Cuba
• Captaincy General of Guatemala
• Captaincy General of Puerto Rico
• Captaincy General of Santo Domingo
• Captaincy General of Venezuela
• Captaincy General of Yucatán
• Captaincy General of the Philippines
• Chile
• Colombia
• Colony of Santiago
• Costa Rica
• Cuba
• Dominican Republic
• Ecuador
• El Salvador
• Equatorial Guinea
• Guatemala
• Hispanidad
• Honduras
• Insular Government of Porto Rico
• Intendancy of San Salvador
• List of countries and territories where Spanish is an official language
• Mexico
• New Spain
• Nicaragua
• Panama
• Paraguay
• Peru
• Province of Las Californias
• Provincias Internas
• Puerto Rico
• Republic of Texas
• Republic of Yucatán
• Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic
• Spain
• Spanish West Indies
• Upper Peru
• Uruguay
• Venezuela
• Viceroyalty of New Granada
• Viceroyalty of Peru
• Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata
• Western Sahara

States and territories established in 1844

• Azua Province
• Caucasus Krai
• Chanderi District
• Dominican Republic
• Duarte Province
• El Seibo Province
• La Vega Province
• Monte Cristi Province
• Puerto Plata Province
• Radom Governorate
• Rancho La Merced
• San Pedro de Macorís Province
• Santiago Province (Dominican Republic)
• Tapanoeli Residency
• Warsaw Governorate

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominican_Republic

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