Since Haiti was unable to adequately provision its army, the occupying forces largely survived by commandeering or confiscating food and supplies at gunpoint. In order to raise funds for the huge indemnity of 150 million francs that Haiti agreed to pay the former French colonists, and which was subsequently lowered to 60 million francs, the Haitian government imposed heavy taxes on the Dominicans. As Toussaint Louverture had done two decades earlier, the Haitians abolished slavery. The newly independent republic ended two months later under the Haitian government led by Jean-Pierre Boyer. Within a few years after 1492 the population of Ta?nos had declined drastically, due to smallpox, measles, and other diseases that arrived with the Europeans, and from other causes discussed below. The latter's successes gained his people an autonomous enclave for a time on the island. After initially friendly relationships, the Ta?nos resisted the conquest, led by the female Chief Anacaona of Xaragua and her ex-husband Chief Caonabo of Maguana, as well as Chiefs Guacanagar?x, Guam?, Hatuey, and Enriquillo. The Ta?no name for the entire island was either Ayiti or Quisqueya. By 1492 the island was divided into five Ta?no chiefdoms. Determining precisely how many people lived on the island in pre-Columbian times is next to impossible, as no accurate records exist. The estimates of Hispaniola's population in 1492 vary widely, including one hundred thousand, three hundred thousand, and four hundred thousand to two million. The fierce Caribs drove the Ta?no to the northeastern Caribbean during much of the 15th century. They engaged in farming and fishing and hunting and gathering. The crown was ousted permanently during the Dominican War of Restoration of 1865 The Arawakan-speaking Ta?no moved into Hispaniola from the north east region of what is now known as South America, displacing earlier inhabitants, c. After the 1844 victory in the Dominican War of Independence against Haitian rule the country fell again under Spanish colonial rule. However, the newly independent Dominicans were forcefully annexed by their more powerful neighbor Haiti in February 1822. The leader of the independence movement Jos? N?ez de C?ceres, intended to unite with the country of Gran Colombia. After more than three hundred years of Spanish rule the Dominican people declared independence in November 1821. The island became the site of the first permanent European settlement in the Americas and the oldest continuously inhabited city and the first seat of the Spanish colonial rule in the New World. Christopher Columbus landed on the Western part of Hispaniola, in what is now Haiti, on December 6, 1492, which the Ta?no people had inhabited since the 7th century. The Dominican Republic is the second-largest Caribbean nation by area (after Cuba) at 48,445 square kilometers (18,705 sq mi), and 3rd by population with approximately 10 million people, of which approximately three million live in the metropolitan area of Santo Domingo, the capital city. The western one-third of the island is occupied by the nation of Haiti, making Hispaniola one of two Caribbean islands, along with Saint Martin, that are shared by two countries. The Dominican Republic is a sovereign state occupying the eastern two-thirds of the island of Hispaniola, in the Greater Antilles archipelago in the Caribbean region.
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