Category:Saint-Domingue (Haiti)
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- Saint-Domingue (1625–1809) — a French colony, on the western side of the island of Hispaniola of the Greater Antilles, in the Caribbean Sea.
- French settlements in the western third of Hispaniola began in 1625, recognized and ceded by Spain to France via Treaty of Ryswick in 1697.
- France had acquired the Captaincy General of Santo Domingo via Treaty of Basel, allowing Spain to cede the eastern colony as a consequence of the French Revolutionary Wars and annexed it into Saint-Domingue (1795–1809).
- In 1804, Saint-Domingue had won its independence from France, and named the country Haiti.
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