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Definition of Capital of the Dominican Republic

1. Noun. The capital and largest city of the Dominican Republic. "Santo Domingo is the oldest continually inhabited European settlement in the Americas with the oldest cathedral and the oldest hospital and the oldest monastery in the Western Hemisphere"

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Literary usage of Capital of the Dominican Republic

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"Thus, the present capital of the Dominican Republic, The French Revolution reacted upon Hispaniola. The whites and mulattos of San Domingo, under Spanish ..."

2. Latin America by George Hubbard Blakeslee (1914)
"Port-au-Prince, the capital of Haiti, and Santo Domingo, the capital of the Dominican Republic, are now in a process of evolution from the old to the new ..."

3. DeBow's Review ...: Agricultural, Commercial, Industrial Progress & Resources by James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow, R. G. Barnwell, Edwin Q. Bell, William MacCreary Burwell (1858)
"St. Domingo city, the capital of the Dominican Republic, j the most ancient city of the "Western hemisphere, having i>een founded by Bartholomew, ..."

4. Cornell's Grammar-school Geography: Forming a Part of a Systematic Series of by Sarah S. Cornell (1863)
"San Domingo, on the southern coast, is the capital of the Dominican Republic. THE ISLAND OF PORTO RICO. Geographical Position, etc. ..."

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