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PedidosYa. PedidosYa is an Uruguayan multinational online food ordering and delivery service based in Montevideo, Uruguay. Founded in 2009 and acquired by Delivery Hero in 2014, the company operates in 15 Latin American countries. [ 1] In 2020, the company launched PedidosYa Market, a series of dark stores for online purchases, with local ...
The recorded history of the Dominican Republic began in 1492 when the Genoa -born navigator Christopher Columbus, working for the Crown of Castile, happened upon a large island in the region of the western Atlantic Ocean that later came to be known as the Caribbean. It was inhabited by the Taíno, an Arawakan people, who called the eastern part ...
The Republic of Spanish Haiti (Spanish: República del Haití Español), also called the Independent State of Spanish Haiti (Estado Independiente del Haití Español) [2] [3] was the independent state that succeeded the Captaincy General of Santo Domingo after independence was declared on November 30, 1821 by José Núñez de Cáceres.
Captain-General of Santo Domingo. Resigned. Created 1st Marquess of Las Carreras in 1862. Felipe Ribero y Lemoine (1797–1873) 20 July 1862 22 October 1863 1 year, 94 days Captain-General of Santo Domingo. Carlos de Vargas y Cerveto (1803–1879) 23 October 1863 30 March 1864 159 days José de la Gándara y Navarro (1820–1885) 31 March 1864
The Beheadings of Moca (Spanish: Degüello de Moca; French: Décapitation de Moca; Haitian Creole: Masak nan Moca) was a massacre that took place in Santo Domingo (now the Dominican Republic) in April 1805 when the invading Haitian army attacked civilians as ordered by Jean-Jacques Dessalines and Henri Christophe, during their retreat to Haiti after the failed attempt to end French rule in ...
Juan Pablo Duarte y Díez (January 26, 1813 – July 15, 1876) [1] was a Dominican military leader, writer, activist, and nationalist politician who was the foremost of the founding fathers of the Dominican Republic and bears the title of Father of the Nation. As one of the most celebrated figures in Dominican history, Duarte is considered a ...
Santiago ( Spanish pronunciation: [sanˈtjaɣo]) is a province which currently comprises one of the 32 provinces of the Dominican Republic. It is divided into 10 municipalities and its capital city is Santiago de los Caballeros. Located in north-central Dominican Republic, in the Cibao region, it is bordered by the provinces of Valverde to the ...
Of all the dioceses in the north and south of the American continent, only the archbishop of Santo Domingo corresponds to the title of first of the Indies. It is the oldest of the surviving dioceses in the Americas, the Diocese of Santo Domingo was created on August 8, 1511 by Pope Julius II's bull Romanus Pontifex of August 8, 1511.