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HISTORY OF AZUA, BARAHONA AND SAN
AND JUAN DE LA MAGUANA
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HISTORY OF AZUA
TO FIND OUT THE
IMPORTANT HERO
THAT PLACE
HISTORY
OF AZUA
TO KNOW THE
ORIGEN OF
NANE AZUA
TO BE AWERE
OF THE
IMPORTANT
BATTLE IN THAT
PLACE

AZUA DE COMPOSTELA
? Upon arrival of the Spanish to the island of Santo Domingo
, Azua was a nitainato belonging to Maguana Chiefdom (one of
the five kingdoms into which the island was divided) Cuyocagua
nita��no governed by and under the jurisdiction of Chief Caonabo
.
? The Spanish town of Compostela Azua , today called Azua, was
founded in 1504 by the advance Diego Vel��zquez de Cu��llar
, who would later become the conqueror of Cuba, during the
government of Don Nicolas de Ovando , near an estate
belonging Don Pedro Gallego, Spanish settled in the area near
the nitainato, from the city of Santiago de Compostela , in the
region of Galicia . This landowner received at home to Diego
Velazquez de Cuellar and his entourage on their way to the
south of the island, as they prepared to visit the chieftainship of
Jaragua , ruled by Queen Anacaona . According DRAE a
nita��no, among the Indians Taino is a person of nobility.

? By royal decree of December 7, 1508, given in Sevilla by King Ferdinand the Catholic , the
Compostela Azua is granted its coat of arms, having prospered prosecutors proposal
Nicuesa Diego and the bachelor Antonio Serrano , and with the full support of Governor
Nicolas de Ovando .
BATTLE IMPORTANT
? BATLLE OF MARCH 19TH
The Battle of Azua was the first major battle in defense of Dominican independence and was
fought on March 19, 1844, in Azua. A force of 2,200 Dominican troops, a portion of the
southern army, led by General Pedro Santana, defeated a force of 10,000 soldiers of the
Haitian army led by General Souffrand.

HISTORY OF BARAHONA
TO FIND OUT THE
IMPORTANT HERO
THAT PLACE
HISTORY
OF
BARAHONA
TO KNOW THE
ORIGEN OF
NANE
BARAHONA
TO BE AWERE
OF THE
IMPORTANT
BATTLE IN THAT
PLACE

BARAHONA
? Barahona is one of the 31 provinces of the Dominican Republic located in the southwest of
the country, is part of the Region Enriquillo, along with the provinces of Bahoruco
, Independencia and Pedernales .
? Bordered on the west by the province Bahoruco , northeast to Azua , Barahona southeast
to the west with Independence , south and southwest Pedernales and East has the
Caribbean Sea . The provincial capital is the city of Santa Cruz de Barahona .
? Before the discovery and colonization by the Spanish, the Spanish island was divided into
five chiefdoms, one of which, Jaragua, who ruled Bohech��o belonged demarcation which
houses Barahona.

BARAHONA
? Around the origin of the name of Barahona were unproved conjectures and hypotheses
formulated.
? Some point that comes from Rodand Ona and other Bahia Honda. The first term, it is
said, was used by the Spanish to measure species and the second to refer to Neyba
Bay, where the population is located.
? Barahona is a Spanish surname, (Barahona is a Basque surname composed of the words
bara (tree, mountain) and one (good)), and so is found in Barahona development history.
The Spanish spread throughout the country and named objects and places named after
them. Francisco Barahona, Barahona Gabriel, Juan Luis Barahona Barahona and arrived
in the first and second of Christopher Columbus travel.
? The reference work maintains that Barahona is a surname found in Spanish who came to
the island after its discovery in 1492 . A Spanish descent nita��no was Juan
Barahona, settler ally Francisco Roldan rebels who revolted in the chiefdom of
Jaragua, covering the physical space in which today are located in the province of
Barahona, and much of the region South West

HISTORY OF SAN JUAN DE LA MAGUANA

SAN JUAN DE LA MAGUANA
? At the time of discovery , the region of San Juan was one of five chiefdoms Taino that
divided the island of Quisqueya . The Maguana or Maguan�� chiefdom, with center near
the present capital, in John Herrera, was ruled by the chief Caonabo. In 1503 Nicolas de
Ovando founded the city of San Juan de Maguana, in honor of San Juan Bautista in 1508
is given by royal decree the title of town with his coat of arms. In 1605 , following the
removal of populations and devastation faced by the governor of Santo Domingo, Antonio
de Osorio , the people of San Juan come to occupy Bayaguana , north of Santo Domingo
, along with the rest of the Spanish uprooted from unpopulated areas.
? Grand Chief Caonabo Maguana King, from Rio Haina to the Artibonite and covering in his
Kingdom of the Cibao, is the first to have a primitive conception of a great nation made up
of villages united in provinces under a unified leadership. The destruction of the "strong
Christmas" in 1493 to stop the outrages of the Spanish against indigenous women is a test
of this plan, to which is added the entire war of resistance to colonization defend its
"sovereignty."

IMPORTANT HERO
CAONABO JOSE MARIA CABRAL

OLIBORIO MATERO ��PAPA
LIBORIO��
FRANCISCO ALBERTO CAAMA?O
DE?O

IMPORTANT PERSONS
HE IS OUR PRESIDENT AND DE FIRST OF SAN
JUAN DE LA MAGUANA

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