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  2. La Vega, Dominican Republic - Wikipedia

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    La Vega, a city in the central Dominican Republic, was founded in 1495 by Batholomew Columbus at the foot of a fortress built by Christopher Columbus in 1494, which intended to guard the route to the interior gold deposits of the Cibao valley. A Spanish settlement called Concepción de la Vega gradually grew around the fort. [5]

  3. List of municipalities of the Dominican Republic - Wikipedia

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    According to the Constitution [6] and the law, [7] the municipalities are administered by the municipality's Municipal Office (ayuntamiento), which is a legal entity in its own right consisting of two bodies: the alcadía (Mayor's Office), with the alcalde (), and the Municipal Council (concejo de regidores), with at least five members (regidores).

  4. La Vega Province - Wikipedia

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    Dominican Republic carnival of La Vega. An event that strengthened the economic development of the area was the inauguration of the railway between the port of Las Cañitas (Sánchez) and the city of La Vega, the product of the efforts of the worthy Gregorio Rivas. The transport by this means of fruits and merchandise led to new living conditions.

  5. Human rights in the Dominican Republic - Wikipedia

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    In October 2016, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights ruled that the disproportionate deprivation of citizenship of black, ethnically Haitian Dominicans brought about by these laws and the government's ongoing failures to counteract the social harms violated the American Convention on Human Rights, and in April 2017 the court used the same ...

  6. Constanza, Dominican Republic - Wikipedia

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    It was incorporated into a municipality in La Vega Province on September 9, 1907. Constanza, Dominican Republic downtown parade On June 14, 1959, a plane landed on a Constanza airstrip with more than forty rebels with the purpose of killing the dictator of the time Rafael Trujillo and starting a communist revolution in the Dominican Republic.

  7. Jarabacoa - Wikipedia

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    General Rafael Ureña Tiburcio - General de combate, Héroe de la fuerza aérea dominicana. General Norberto Tiburcio - General de Brigada, Héroe de la Restauración. General José Durán - General de Brigada, Héroe de la Restauración. Obdulio Jiménez (Don Lulo) - Empresario y Pionero de la industria energética local.

  8. List of schools in the Dominican Republic - Wikipedia

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    Distrito La Vega Este Prof. Jose Maria De La Mota Publico Distrito San Francisco De Macoris Sur-E Prof. Juan Emilio Bosch Gaviño Publico Distrito Higuey Prof. Juan Emilio Bosch Gaviño Publico Distrito Bani Prof. Juan Emilio Bosch Gaviño Publico Distrito Cotui Prof. Juan Emilio Bosch Gaviño Publico San Gregorio De Nigua

  9. Chamber of Deputies of the Dominican Republic - Wikipedia

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    lÓpez reyna de ceballos plr: plr: la altagracia - eduard alexis espiritusanto castillo fp: bis: la romana - plutarco pÉrez pld: pld: la romana - eugenio cedeÑo areche prm: prm: la romana - pedro tomÁs botello solimÁn prsc: prsc: la romana - rosa amalia pilarte lÓpez dxc: prm: la vega: 1 Ángel teÓfilo estÉvez estÉvez pld: pld: la vega ...