Dominican Republic is Quisqueya

The name of the Dominican Republic is Quisqueya. Dominican is just its denominative for a republic in the Island of Santo Domingo, as it was decided in 1506 by the Spanish Crown, who in 1621 gave the nick name of Dominicans to it's people as "second class Spanish citizens".

Quisqueya was the name for the country suggested by Juan Pablo Duarte when he wrote:

-"Quisqueyans, the hour has already tolled
to end so many centuries of abuses;
The one whom God and the Homeland unlove,
With the blanket of death in shame should be covered.

No more cross than the Quisqueyan one,
Which gives honor and pleasure to carry;
But for the one who preferes the Hispanic,
To the sepulchre is the right place to wear it."
-Juan Pablo Duarte (Our translation)

Original:
-"Quisqueyanos, sonó ya la hora
de vengar tantos siglos de infamia;
El que a Dios y a su patria desdora,
Que de oprobio y blandón se amortaje.

No más cruz que la cruz quisqueyana,
Que da honor y placer el llevarla;
Pero el vil que prefiera la hispana,
Que se vaya al sepulcro a ostentarla".
-Juan Pablo Duarte

The National Anthem of the country has its roots with the above statement, which was the one sparking the flame for the Restoration of the Republic when President Pedro Santana gave it to Spain in 1861. When the fight for the restoration was being lost, Duarte came in 1864 and his presence gave the necessary spiritual and trust for the people to support the restoration army.

Duarte shared his ideas with few of the patriots, mainly, Espaillat, who became President in 1876 (the year Duarte died in Venezuela) and ordered the National Anthem and the return of the remains of Duarte to his homeland. Lira de Quisqueya was the group that gathered those working to recoup the name of Quisqueya, which had been rediculized by intellectuals, historians, writers and politicians since the year 1525 (and still in the present), but the people adore this name and is proud to be called Quisqueyan.

Dominican is a nick name imposed by Spain to their citizens born in the Island of Santo Domingo since 1621. Dominican is a combinated voice composed of two Latin terms: Domini, meaning "God"; and Can, meaning "Dog" or "Sheep", that is to say, "God's servant".
Dominican is also the proper gentility for the people of the Island of Dominica.

Quisqueya is not a common name and as a country, the Dominican republic occupying the Eastern part of the Island, it is an exclusive and proper name, given to by the Father of the Homeland, Juan Pablo Duarte. A name which roots come from lejends told by Anacaona ("Golden Flower"), Queen of Jaragua and Maguana at the beginning of the XVI Century.

The Constitution of Haiti and the Agency for Standarization of Geographical Names of the United States of America must stop identifying the Island of Santo Domingo with other names, such as Haiti and Hispaniola, respectively, for the Republic of Haiti has signed treaties admitting that the name of the Island is Santo Domingo and must honor those treaties; while the United States of America, for the reason that the two countries (Haiti and Quisqueya) sharing the ownership of the Island have two different names for it, has given it the same name Columbus baptized the Island in 1492, but that name was never accepted by Spain. If that name were accepted, then the inhabitants of this island would called themselfs "Spaniards" too.

This is what this blog is all about: to give the name of Quisqueya deserved by the Dominican Republic's people and to have only one name, instead of three, for the Island of Santo Domingo.

Those corrections (not changes) will contribute to the clarification of history, geography and gramma in education and politics regarding centuries of confusion by historians, writers and politicians.

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