"Dominican Republic" in Spanish is "República Dominicana." It is pronounced, "Ray-POOB-lee-cah doe-mee-nee-CAH-nah." Sites such as learn-spanish.co.il provide audio pronunciations of many common...
The question assumes that the Spanish played a positive role in the development of the country. They did not. The Spanish brought disease which killed off most of the native Taino population, they...
When Christopher Columbus "discovered" the island, he brough many Spaniards with him and nearly wiped all the Taino (a type of Indian) population. Haiti took over DR but not for long because...