1. Hispaniola.Com Dominican Republic Guide - History Summary of the history of this island of the Greater Antilles with information about the conquest Category Society history By Region Caribbean dominican republic...... During the next 70 years, the history of the Overall, the situation in the dominicanrepublic for the first 70 by power hungry followers of regional strongmen. http://www.hispaniola.com/DR/Guides/History.html

Dominican Republic Travel Guide : History Quick Link... - Travel Guide - Destinations - Maps - Accommodation - Activities - Accommodation - Windsurfing - Activities History of the Dominican Republic Paintings by John Lewis, a locally well known Dominican painter whom Hispaniola.com commissiond to draw snapshots of the Dominican history. For at least 5,000 years before Christopher Columbus "discovered" America for the Europeans, the island which he called Hispaniola was inhabited by Amer-Indians. Anthropologists have traced 2 major waves of immigration, one from the West in Central America (probably Yucatan) and the second from the South, descendant of the Arawakan Indian tribes in Amazonia and passing through the Orinocco valley in Venezuela. It is from this second source that the ancestors of the Taino Indians who welcomed Columbus on his first voyage originated. The word Taino meant "good" or "noble" in their language, and not only were the Indians peaceful and generous in their hospitality, but early Spanish chroniclers document that no Spaniard ever saw Indians fighting among themselves. By the end of the 15th century the Tainos were well organized into five tribes, and are considered to have been of the verge of civilization and central government. Recent estimates indicate that there probably were as many as 200,000 Tainos on the island at the time. Within a short time of his departure, these settlers began fighting among themselves, with some of them getting killed. They also offended the natives by forcibly taking 3 or 4 of their wives or sisters each, and forcing them to work as their servants. After several months of these abuses, a tribal chief named Caonabo attacked the settlement and killed the remaining Spaniards. So when Columbus returned to the island the next spring with a large expedition, he and the Spaniards were shocked to find that the settlement they had left behind was empty and had been burned to the ground.

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Free Web site hosting - Freeservers.com History of Regional Competitions Caribbean and Central American Games (CAC) Number Year Location I Mexico City, Mexico II Havana, Cuba III San Salvador, El Salvador IV Panama City, Panama V Barranquilla, Colombia VI Guatemala City, Guatemala VII Mexico City, Mexico VIII Caracas, Venezuela IX Kingston, Jamaica X San Juan, Puerto Rico XI Panama City, Panama XII Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic XIII Medellin, Colombia XIV Havana, Cuba XV Santiago De Los Caballeros, Dominican Republic XVI Mexico City, Mexico XVII Ponce, Puerto Rico XVIII Maracaibo, Venezuela C.C.C.A.N. Championships Number Year Location I San Juan, Puerto Rico II San Salvador, El Salvador III Mexico City, Mexico IV Cali, Colombia V San Salvador, El Salvador VI San Juan, Puerto Rico VII Havana, Cuba VIII Ibague, Colombia IX Mexico City, Mexico X Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic XI San Cristobal, Venezuela XII Oaxtepec, Mexico (Swimming) Havana, Cuba (Water Polo) XIII Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic XIV Oaxtepec, Mexico XV Salinas, Puerto Rico XVI Caracas, Venezuela XVII Merida, Mexico

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16. History And Structure Of The Pan American Health Organization the World Health Organization allocation for the regional Office of the Colombia;Costa Rica; Cuba; Dominica; dominican republic; Ecuador; El Salvador; Grenada; http://www.paho.org/english/history.htm

Quick Search HISTORY AND STRUCTURE of the PAN AMERICAN HEALTH ORGANIZATION Preamble Origin Fundamental Purposes Structure: Governing Bodies ... PAHO/WHO Regional, and Subregional Centers, Institutes, and Programs PREAMBLE: The Pan American Sanitary Bureau (PASB) is the executive arm of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO); it simultaneously serves as the Regional Office for the Americas of the World Health Organization. ORIGIN: In 1949, the Pan American Sanitary Organization and the World Health Organization agreed that the Pan American Sanitary Bureau would serve as the Regional Office of the World Health Organization for the Americas. In 1950, the Pan American Sanitary Organization was recognized as a fully autonomous and specialized inter-American organization. Thus, the Organization became a component of both the United Nations and the inter-American systems. The XV Pan American Sanitary Conference (San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1958) changed the name of the Pan American Sanitary Organization to the Pan American Health Organization. The name of the Pan American Sanitary Bureau remained unchanged. FUNDAMENTAL PURPOSES: The fundamental purposes of the Pan American Health Organization are to promote and coordinate the efforts of the countries of the Region of the Americas to combat disease, lengthen life, and promote the physical and mental health of their people.

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18. Table Of Contents Page 7. VII. The Contemporary Period, 1945-2000. 2001. The Enc The Encyclopedia of World history. 2001. Table of Contents. Page 7. 1. Overview. a.Cultural Developments. b. regional Diplomacy. c. The dominican republic. d. Haiti. http://www.bartleby.com/67/toc7.html

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19. History Of Merengue history of Merengue. tópico cibaeñ's status as a national symbol gave it primacyover other regional musics, several Merengue outside the dominican republic. http://home-3.tiscali.nl/~pjetax/historias/history_merengue_trujillo.html

History of Merengue Origins of merengue Merengue during the era of Trujillo The contemporary era This text was taken from the book "Merengue, Dominican music and Dominican identity", published by Temple University Press in 1997, written by Paul Austerlitz. Merengue during the era of Trujillo Trujillo , who was not from the Cibao, adopted a music from this region as a national symbol; his status as a national rather than a regional caudillo allowed him to transcend established Dominican patterns not only of regional politics but of expressive culture In Alberti's Although Regional musics While In the 1930s, accordion-based merengue came to be called perico ripiao (literally, ripped parrot), a label that lends itself to rich etymological speculation. It's told that the name came from a brothel in Santiago. Among the plethora of rural Dominican musics with close links to Africa are the local variants of merengue from regions other than the Cibao. For example, the southern variant, merengue palo echao (or pri-prí), that was danced different. There is a racial distinction between the two variants; in the south a lot of African culture is practiced. Merengue cibaeño is from the north, where there are more white people. "Trujillo's attraction to merengue cibaeño in spite of its African )derived elements was likely influenced by the Cibao's whiter ethnic make-up and link with the oligarchy, which had long placed it at the top of the Dominican reional hierarchy.

20. History Of Merengue history of Merengue. In thes case, each region of the dominican republic would haveadapted the music this view is the fact that while the regional variants use http://home-3.tiscali.nl/~pjetax/historias/history_merengue_1854-1961.html

History of Merengue Origins of merengue Merengue during the era of Trujillo The contemporary era This text was taken from the book "Merengue, Dominican music and Dominican identity", published by Temple University Press in 1997, written by Paul Austerlitz. While best known as a dominican music, merengue was a pan-Caribbean genre already in the nineteenth century. Haiti, Venezuela, Colombia, and Puerto Rico each developed local forms of the music; with the exception of the Puerto Rican version, all are still played today. Like another pan-Caribbean form, the danza , the Caribbean merengues fused the European contredanse with local, African-drived elements, they are thus aptly called Afro-Caribbean contredanse transformations. In their duality, the contredanse transformations reflected the contradictions of nineteenth-century Spanish Caribbean society, which was divided along intertwined lines of race and class. While the light-skinned urbane gentry sustained close ties to Europe, much of the rural population maintained African-derived practices. Still, interracial marriage was not unusual, and communication across class lines took place. The contredanse originated in England, where country dances became popular among the nobility durin the mid-seventeenth century. This English country dance was introduced to the court of the French king Louis XIV, an avid amateur dancer. Performed in groups with set figures, it acquired a genteel nature in the French court, and there came to be called the contredanse. When the dance caught on in colonial Saint-domingue, its musical accompaniment was impreguated by African influences. Jean Fouchard writes that Haitian mereng developed in the mid-nineteenth century from a local contredanse derivative, the

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