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Home > Haiti History > Haiti French Settlement And Sovereignty - The Buccaneers > Haiti - Cap Haitien, The First Major French Community Haiti - Cap Haitien, The First Major French Community In 1670 they [The French] established their first major community, Cap François (later Cap Français, now Cap-Haïtien).
During this period, the western part of the island was commonly referred to as Saint-Domingue, the name it bore officially after Spain relinquished sovereignty over the area to France in the Treaty of Ryswick in 1697.
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