Dominicans, also known as Quisqueyans, are an ethno-national people, a people of shared ancestry and culture, who have ancestral roots in the Dominican Republic.
Timeline of the Dominican Republic's genetic make-up since 500 years ago showing the impact of migrations. The founder Dominican population was mostly European in origin with some Indigenous element, but was modified by subsequent African inflows. European DNA Native American DNA Sub-Saharan African DNA
Dominican people in the town of Moca.
Dominicans in New York Dominican Day Parade.
Dominicans in Spain dance in culture parade of Valencia.
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The Dominican Republic is an island country on the eastern part of the Caribbean island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles of the Caribbean Sea in the North Atlantic Ocean. It shares a maritime bor
Catedral Santa María La Menor is the oldest cathedral built in the Americas.
In 1838, Juan Pablo Duarte and others established a secret patriotic society called La Trinitaria, which helped undermine Haitian occupation.
Monument built by Dominicans in 1944, commemorating the participants of the War of Restoration
The flag of the United States waving over Ozama Fortress during the U.S. occupation of the Dominican Republic, c. 1922