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Haiti History, Language and Culture

History of Haiti

In 1492 Christopher Columbus became the first European to discover the island of Hispaniola, which has since been divided between the countries of Haiti and the Dominican Republic. The Spanish colonised this new land, brutally supplanting the Arawak Indian inhabitants, and using the island to launch their conquests of the Caribbean and Central America

By the 16th century, Spain>'s European rivals began challenging for control of Santo Domingo and in 1697 they ceded the western half of the island to France, which now forms modern-day Haiti.

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