{"id":121876,"date":"2019-01-29T14:03:47","date_gmt":"2019-01-29T14:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.do\/?p=121876"},"modified":"2019-01-30T10:40:42","modified_gmt":"2019-01-30T10:40:42","slug":"spain-opens-its-archives-to-dominican-historians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2019\/01\/29\/spain-opens-its-archives-to-dominican-historians\/","title":{"rendered":"Spain opens its archives to Dominican historians"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"678\" height=\"334\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.do\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spain-opens-its-archives-Listin-Diario.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-121927\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spain-opens-its-archives-Listin-Diario.png 678w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spain-opens-its-archives-Listin-Diario-300x148.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 678px) 100vw, 678px\" \/><figcaption>Photo: List\u00edn Diario<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Spain is opening up its historical records to Dominican historians. On Monday, 28 January 2019, the signing of a memorandum of understanding between the Archivos Estatales del Reino de Espa\u00f1a and the Archivo General de la Nacion de la Republica Dominicana took place at the Ministry of Culture of Spain in Madrid. Both entities are the national archives of the two countries. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Memorandum of Understanding gives the Dominican Republic access to unpublished historical documents in the Spanish national archives that cover more than 350 years of Santo Domingo history. The signing ceremony occurred on Wednesday, 23 January 2019, but was only now announced. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Present for the event was the director general of the Bellas Artes del Reino de Espa\u00f1a, Rom\u00e1n Fern\u00e1ndez-Baca Casares; Dominican ambassador to Spain, Olivo Rodr\u00edguez Huertas; the director general del Archivo General de la Naci\u00f3n de la Rep\u00fablica Dominicana, Roberto Cass\u00e1; the subdirector general de los Archivos Estatales, Severiano Hern\u00e1ndez; and the executive vice president for public relations and communications of the Banco Popular Dominicano, Jos\u00e9 M\u00e1rmol.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The memorandum allows for the identification, selection, organization and digital reproduction of primary historical sources related to the Dominican Republic that are filed at the Archivo General de Indias, the Archivo Hist\u00f3rico Nacional, the Archivo General de Simancas and the Archivo General de la Administraci\u00f3n.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In making the announcement for the Spanish government, the director general of Bellas Artes, Rom\u00e1n Fern\u00e1ndez- Baca Casares, said that it is a very important step in the mutual exchange of historical documentation, in which not only the Dominican Republic will enrich its history but also that Spain will be able to better understand the evolution of colonial life in Santo Domingo, as well as emigration and Spanish exile on the island.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dominican ambassador Olivo Rodr\u00edguez Huertas thanked the Spanish government for allowing the Dominican Republic to be the first country in Latin America to access all the historical documentation in the Spanish state archives, dating from late 15th century until well into the 19th century. Rodr\u00edguez Huertas thanked Banco Popular, in the person of its president Manuel A. Grull\u00f3n, for the financial support that will make possible the digitization of this valuable historical documentation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/listindiario.com\/la-republica\/2019\/01\/28\/551173\/acuerdo-historico-entre-espana-y-rd\">Listin&nbsp;Diario<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>29 January 2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spain is opening up its historical records to Dominican historians. On Monday, 28 January 2019, the signing of a memorandum of understanding between the Archivos Estatales del Reino de Espa\u00f1a and the Archivo General de la Nacion de la Republica Dominicana took place at the Ministry of Culture of Spain in Madrid. Both entities are &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2019\/01\/29\/spain-opens-its-archives-to-dominican-historians\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[154,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121876"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121876"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121928,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121876\/revisions\/121928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}