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Bookmark or Share- Hispaniola - WikipediaHispaniola (/ ˌ h ɪ s p ə n ˈ j oʊ l ə /, [3] [4] [5] also UK: /-p æ n ˈ-/) [6] [7] [8] [9] is an island between Cuba and Puerto Rico in the Greater Antilles of the Caribbean. Hispaniola is the most populous island in the West Indies, and the second-largest by land area, after Cuba.
- Two countries, one island, life-and-death differences | CNNHispaniola has long been a divided island. It was discovered by Christopher Columbus in 1492 and settled by the Spanish. In 1697, Spain gave the portion of the island now known as Haiti to the...
- Hispaniola - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaHispaniola is an island in the Caribbean Sea. It is the second largest island (after Cuba) of the West Indies, east of Cuba and west of Puerto Rico. It is the most populous island of the West Indies. The Republic of Haiti occupies the western three-eighths, [1] [2] the Dominican Republic the rest.
- Hispaniola - Encyclopedia.comHispaniola (also Española), the island, named by Christopher Columbus, between Cuba and Puerto Rico; its western half became Haiti and eastern half the Dominican Republic.
- Hispaniola: The First Colony in the New World - Foreign AffairsOn the poinsettia-fringed shores of Hispaniola, Columbus -- the most imaginative, the vainest, the luckiest, and the most persistent sailor the world has ever known -- pitched his first camp and built his first fortress, La Navidad.
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