DOMINICAN REPUBLIC

DOMINICAN REPUBLIC / REPÚBLICA DOMINICANA.

450th Anniversary of establishment of Ciudad Trujillo (City Santo Domingo).
Map of Hispaniola Island. 
First stamp in a set of 3, issued 04.08.1943.
Face value: 10 cents of Dominican pesos.
Printing: Lithography.
Size: 45 x 35 mm.

Catalogues
- Michel No. 465.
- Scott No. 421.
- StampWorld No. 476.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 546.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 393.

Santo Domingo (oficially, Santo Domingo de Guzmán), is the capital and largest city of the Dominican Republic in the Caribbean by a total population (in 2010) of 2,908,607, when including the metropolitan area. The city’s Colonial Zone was declared as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. Santo Domingo was called Ciudad Trujillo from 1936 to 1961, after the Dominican Republic’s dictator, Rafael Trujillo, named the capital after himself. Although the first European settlement was established in 1493, the city was officially founded by Bartholomew Columbus on August 5, 1498 on the eastern bank of the Ozama River and later moved by Nicolás de Ovando in 1502 to the western bank of the same river. The city is the oldest continuously inhabited European settlement in the Americas, and was the first seat of the Spanish colonial rule in the New World. Santo Domingo was named in honor of Domenico Colombo, father of Christopher Columbus. However, it was founded under the name of La Nueva Isabela.