Dominican Republic, or St. Domingo (610), a republic forming the E. part of the island of Haiti, and consisting of two-thirds of it; it belonged alternately to France and Spain till 1865, when, on revolt, the Spaniards were expelled, and a republic established; the capital is St. Domingo (15), and the chief port Puerto Plata.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Dominical Letter * Dominicans