Description: Rezilta tiraj bòlèt Ayiti (lotri New York ak Florida). Estatistik pou Ayisyen jwenn boul bòlèt ki ka soti. Sèvis mesaje bolet ki achte bòlèt an Ayiti pou kliyan
Haiti ( / ˈ h eɪ t i / ⓘ HAY -tee ; French : Haïti [a.iti] ; Haitian Creole : Ayiti [ajiti] ), officially the Republic of Haiti (French: République d'Haïti ; Haitian Creole: Repiblik d Ayiti ), [14] and formerly known as Hayti , [b] is a country on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean Sea , east of Cuba and Jamaica , and south of The Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos Islands . It occupies the western three-eighths of the island which it shares with the Dominican Rep
The island was originally inhabited by the indigenous Taíno people, who originated in South America. [26] The first Europeans arrived on 5 December 1492 during the first voyage of Christopher Columbus . [27] Columbus subsequently founded the first European settlement in the Americas, La Navidad , on what is now the northeastern coast of Haiti. [28] [29] [30] [31] The island was claimed by Spain and named La Española , forming part of the Spanish Empire until the early 17th century. However, competing claims
In the midst of the French Revolution (1789–99), slaves, maroons , and free people of color launched the Haitian Revolution (1791–1804), led by a former slave and the second black general of the French Army (the first being Thomas-Alexandre Dumas ), Toussaint Louverture . After 12 years of conflict, Napoleon Bonaparte 's forces were defeated by Louverture's successor, Jean-Jacques Dessalines (later Emperor Jacques I), who declared Haiti's sovereignty on 1 January 1804—the first independent nation of Latin A