On January 1st, 1804, Dessalines (who had defeated the French) declared the island of Saint-Domingue independent and re-named it , which is what the island had been called by native inhabitants before the arrival of Columbus.

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map scale refers to the relationship (or ratio) between distance on a map and the corresponding distance on the ground. for example, on a 1: 100000 scale map, 1cm on the map equals 1km on the ground.