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Santiago de los Caballeros , city (1993 pop. 364,859), N Dominican Republic, on the Yaque del Norte River. The second most important city in the country, it is a rail and road junction in the center of the fertile region known as the Cibao lowland. The region produces subsistence crops, sugarcane, tobacco, coffee, and cotton. Tobacco products and some light manufacturing are the dominant economic activities. Santiago is the commercial center and distribution point for the most densely populated part of the country. It was founded in 1504 and in 1844 was the site of a decisive battle in the Dominican Republic's war of independence.

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Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic Founded either in 1494 by Christopher Columbus or by his brother Bartolomeo the following year and named after the apostle St James the Great. The second part of the name was added in 1504 after 30 caballeros ‘gentlemen’ of the Order of St James had moved here from La Isabela. Several instances of the name Santiago with qualifications exist to indicate location, such as Santiago de Cuba, a province and city in Cuba, and Santiago del Estero ‘Santiago of the Marsh’, a province, with lakes and marshes in the south, and a city in Argentina,

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