Dominican Republic Researched via: Student Name: Shai Plata Date: 5/17/10

Where is Dominican Republic Located? The Dominican Republic is located on the island of Hispaniola, part of the Greater Antilles archipelago in the Caribbean region. The western third of the island is occupied by the nation of Haiti, making Hispaniola one of two Caribbean islands that are shared by two countries.

Flag, Motto, Anthem: Motto: "Dies, Patria, Liberated" (Spanish) ("God, Fatherland, Liberty") Quisqueyanos valiances, alchemies Maestro canto con viva emotion, Y del undo a la faze oftentimes Maestro invite glories pennon. Salve el pueblo queue intrepid y forte, A la Guerra a moiré se llano Cando en bellicose recto de merit Sues cadenzas de enclave romper. Niangua pueblo ser libber mercer Is as enclave indolent y servile; Is en us echo la llama no crèche Queue temple el heroism virile. Mass Quisqueya la indomitable y Brava Simper alive la fronted lazar: Queue is fewer mil vices enclave Okras mantas ser libber sacra. Queue is dolor y arid la expusieron de un intrusion senior al deaden, ¡Las Carreras! ¡Belle!... Campos fern queue cabarets de Gloria se van. Queue en la cyma de heroic valuate, de loss libbers el verb Encino, donned el genie de Sanchez y Duarte a ser libber o moiré envenom. Y is pod inconsulto caudillo de seas glories el brills empanel, de la Guerra se viol en Capitally la Bandera de forego endear. Y el incendiary queue Antonito deejay de Castillo al suburbia Leon, de lass playas glories le aloha donned float el crusade pennon. Compatriots, nostrums argued neutral fronted, orgullosos de hoi mass; queue Quisqueya sera detrude per sierra de Nuevo, jams. Queue as sanctuaries de amour coda echo do la patria se seine vivid; Y as us escudo invincible, el reecho; Y as us lemma: ser libber o moiré. Liberated queue aunt se exergue Serena La Victoria en us carrot triumphal. Y el clarion de la Guerra aunt resent Pregnant us Gloria immortal. ¡Liberated! Queue loss egos se agate Mantras llanos de noble unseeded Maestros Campos de Gloria repute ¡Liberated! ¡Liberated! ¡Liberated!

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History: Successive waves of Arawak migrants, moving northward from the Orinoco delta in South America, settled the islands of the Caribbean. Around A.D. 600, the Taíno Indians, a late Stone Age Arawak culture, arrived on the island, displacing the previous inhabitants. They were organized into cacicazgos (chiefdoms), each led by a cacique (chief). The final Arawak migrants, the Caribs, began moving up the Lesser Antilles in the 1100s, and were raiding Taíno villages on the island's eastern coast by the time the Spanish arrived in 1492.

Famous People / Role Models: Julissa Bermudez- TV personality on BET.

What do you or your peers like the most about Dominican Republic ? The water