Port-au-Prince
Haitian Kreyòl name: Pòtoprens
Also known as: Port au Prince, Port-au-Prince
Last updated: April 26, 2026
Capital city of Haiti, located on the Gulf of Gonâve on the western coast. Founded by the French in 1749 as the administrative capital of the southern province of Saint-Domingue. After independence it became the national capital of Haiti. Site of the assassination of Dessalines in 1806 at nearby Pont-Rouge, and the political center of the southern republic under Pétion. The city has been the seat of Haitian government throughout the independence period.
au-prince — the urban setting of the liberalization's performance and its failures
au-prince — West Province provisional command (June 1794)
au-prince — Placed under state of siege in the 1875 pamphlet's account.
The political theater of the West Province concordats and colonial council politics in which Pinchinat was the central free-colored strategist.
Born in Port-au-Prince on May 6, 1773.
Assassinated by whites in Port-au-Prince in 1791 as colonial order broke down.
Mayor of Port-au-Prince during the revolutionary crisis
Center of his political and diplomatic career
His base of operations as a militia leader and agitator in Port-au-Prince's urban white petit-blanc networks.
Promulgated at the Imperial Palace, Port-au-Prince
Port-au-Prince was the epicenter of destruction
The affair took place in the streets of Port-au-Prince
Moïse was assassinated at his private residence in Pèlerin, above Port-au-Prince
Sam was killed in Port-au-Prince, where he had sought refuge in the French legation
White forces marched from Port-au-Prince to the habitation Pernier in the plain
The British entered Port-au-Prince in 1794
The burning destroyed much of Port-au-Prince's commercial quarter
The commission arrived at Port-au-Prince on February 28, 1930
Port-au-Prince politics drove the insurrection and was the ultimate political target
Pont-Rouge was on the road north of Port-au-Prince
Port-au-Prince was the center of earthquake destruction and of the reconstruction effort
Bolívar was hosted in Port-au-Prince during his exile
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Capital of the southern province of Saint-Domingue.
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