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= The  'Haitian military occupation of Santo Domingo in 1822'  = The  'Haitian military occupation of Santo Domingo in 1822'  was a historical period that lasted 22 years, in which Haiti ruled the eastern part of the island, imposing itself on the new Estado de Haití Español, which was divided into two departments: located in the northern portion, the  Cibao and in the southern portion, the  Ozama.

The twenty-two years of the Haitian occupation of  Santo Domingo, after a  brief period of independence are largely remembered by Dominicans as a period of  military regime brutal, although the reality is more complex. During this period expropriations of land were carried out on a large scale, to the detriment of the efforts necessary for the production of export crops. Military service was imposed, the use of Spanish language was restricted, and attempts were made to eliminate traditional customs such as  cockfighting. This situation fueled the perception that Dominicans had of themselves and their differences with Haitian customs in terms of language, race, religion and national customs. Moya Pons, Frank. "Between slavery and free trade unionism: The Spanish Caribbean in the 19th century". Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore), 1985. However, this was also a period that definitively ended with slavery as an institution in the eastern part of the island.

Haiti prohibited the constitution of whites as landowners and the main landowning families were forcibly deprived of their properties. Most emigrated to Cuba, Puerto Rico or Greater Colombia, usually with the support of Haitian officials, who acquired their land. The Haitians, who associated the Catholic Church with their masters French, who had exploited them before their independence, confiscated all church property, deported all the clergy abroad, and the rest members of the clergy severed ties with the  Vatican. The University of Santo Domingo, the oldest in America and lacking student s and professor s, was closed.

In order to receive diplomatic recognition from France, Haiti was forced to pay compensation of 150 million francs to former French settlers, a sum that was later reduced to 60 million francs. This prompted Haiti to impose heavy taxes on the eastern part of the island.

Given Haiti's inability to adequately support its army, the occupying force survived, largely by confiscating food and supplies at gunpoint.

Attempts to redistribute land in conflict over the communal land tenure system (common lands), which had arisen with the cattle economy, and the resentment of newly emancipated slaves forced the Haitian administration to increase the commercial crops, under the Rural Code of Boyer. In rural areas, the Haitian administration was too inefficient to enforce its own laws.

= End of occupation =

It was in the city of Santo Domingo that the effects of the occupation were most acutely felt, and it was there that the independence movement originated.

On July 16, 1838, Juan Pablo Duarte founded the secret society La Trinitaria, together with Juan Isidro Pérez, Juan Nepomuceno Ravelo, Félix María Ruiz, Benito González, Jacinto de la Concha, Pedro Alejandrino Pina, Felipe Alfau Bustamante and José María Serra. Later, Francisco del Rosario Sánchez, Matías Ramón Mella, Vicente Celestino Duarte, Fray José Antonio Bonilla, Pedro Pablo Bonilla, Pedro Carrasco, Félix María del Monte, Tomás de la Concha, Pedro Antonio Bobea, Juan Nepomuceno Tejera, Epifanio Billini, Francisco Martínez de León, Antonio Duvergé, José María Imbert, Francisco Antonio Salcedo, among others.