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Santo Domingo ( Spanish pronunciation: [ˈsanto ðoˈmiŋɡo] meaning "Saint Dominic" but verbatim "Holy Sunday"), once known as Santo Domingo de Guzmán, known as Ciudad Trujillo between 1936 and 1961, is the capital and largest city of the Dominican Republic and the largest metropolitan area in the Caribbean by population. [7]
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. It was inhabited by the Taíno, an Arawakan people, who called the eastern part ...
1724- Guadalupe and Tolosa Shipwreck in Samana. 1741- Battle of Cartagena de Indias - Santo Domingo participates in the Spanish victory against the English Navy. 1760- Population is bolstered by immigration from the Canary Islands resettling the northern part of the island. Population grows from 6,000 to 125,000 by 1790.
History. The first settlement of what is now Santo Domingo was established by Bartholomew Columbus on the East bank of the Ozama River near the end of the 15th century. After the 1502 hurricane that claimed Francisco de Bobadilla among its victims, however, the city was relocated on the West bank under the leadership of Nicolás de Ovando.
For most of its history, up until independence, the colony was known simply as Santo Domingo and continued to be commonly known as such in English until the early 20th century. The residents were called "Dominicans" ( Dominicanos ), the adjectival form of "Domingo", and as such, the revolutionaries named their newly independent country the ...
e. Dominican Republic people and culture. The culture of the Dominican Republic is a diverse mixture of different influences from around the world. The Dominican people and their customs have origins consisting predominantly in a European cultural basis, with native Taíno and African influences. [1] The Dominican Republic was the site of the ...
The Alcázar de Colón, or Columbus Alcazar is the first fortified European palace built in the Americas. It is located in the Dominican Republic 's colonial area of Santo Domingo city, and forms part of the Ciudad Colonial UNESCO 's World Heritage Site. It was built between 1510 and 1514 mostly in a Gothic and Renaissance style.
The Cathedral of Santa María la Menor in the Colonial City of Santo Domingo is dedicated to St. Mary of the Incarnation. It is the first and oldest cathedral in the Americas, [1] begun in 1504 and was completed in 1550. [2] It is the cathedral of the Archbishop of Santo Domingo who has the honorary title of Primate of the Indies because this ...