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 * [http://www.canadainternational.gc.ca/haiti/ Canadia Embassy in Haiti] - (French and English text)
 * [http://www.ambafrance-ht.org/ Ambassade de France en Haïti] - French Embassy in Haiti. (French text)
-* [http://www.auswaertiges-amt.de/DE/Laenderinformationen/01-Laender/DeutscheAVen/Haiti/DeutscheVertretungen_node.html] - Contact info for German embassy in Port-au-Prince
+* [http://www.auswaertiges-amt.de/DE/Laenderinformationen/01-Laender/DeutscheAVen/Haiti/DeutscheVertretungen_node.html Botschaft der Bundesrepublik Deutschland in Haiti] - Contact info for German embassy in Port-au-Prince
 * [http://portauprince.usembassy.gov/ U.S. Embassy in Port-au-Prince] - (French and English text)

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 * [http://www.canadainternational.gc.ca/haiti/ Canadia Embassy in Haiti] - (French and English text)
 * [http://www.ambafrance-ht.org/ Ambassade de France en Haïti] - French Embassy in Haiti. (French text)
-* [http://www.auswaertiges-amt.de/diplo/de/Laenderinformationen/01-Laender/DeutscheAVen/Haiti/DeutscheVertretungen.html Botschaft der Bundesrepublik Deutschland in Haiti] - Contact info for German embassy in Port-au-Prince
+* [http://www.auswaertiges-amt.de/DE/Laenderinformationen/01-Laender/DeutscheAVen/Haiti/DeutscheVertretungen_node.html] - Contact info for German embassy in Port-au-Prince
 * [http://portauprince.usembassy.gov/ U.S. Embassy in Port-au-Prince] - (French and English text)

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 ==See also==
-* [[http://thelouvertureproject.org/index.php?title=Jacmel#Ram.C3.B3n_Emeterio_Betances_stays_in_Jacmel Ramón Emeterio Betances stays in Jacmel]] - Short excerpt of an appeal to Caribbean unity from an adress to a Port-au-Prince Masonic Lodge in 1872.
+* [http://thelouvertureproject.org/index.php?title=Jacmel#Ram.C3.B3n_Emeterio_Betances_stays_in_Jacmel Ramón Emeterio Betances stays in Jacmel] - Short excerpt of an appeal to Caribbean unity from an adress to a Port-au-Prince Masonic Lodge in 1872.
 * [[Frederick Douglass lecture on Haiti (1893)|Frederick Douglass lecture on Haiti]] - 1893 speech given in Chicago in which Douglass gives impressions of live in Port-au-Prince.
 * [[Toussaint Louverture letter to Jean-Jacques Dessalines (1802)|Toussaint Louverture letter to Jean-Jacques Dessalines]] - Letter from [[1802]], in which Toussaint Louverture asks Jean-Jacques Dessalines to burn down the city to repel the French forces seeking to reestablish slavery in Saint-Domingue.

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 ==See also==
 * [[Frederick Douglass lecture on Haiti (1893)|Frederick Douglass lecture on Haiti]] - 1893 speech given in Chicago in which Douglass gives impressions of live in Port-au-Prince.
 * [[Toussaint Louverture letter to Jean-Jacques Dessalines (1802)|Toussaint Louverture letter to Jean-Jacques Dessalines]] - Letter from [[1802]], in which Toussaint Louverture asks Jean-Jacques Dessalines to burn down the city to repel the French forces seeking to reestablish slavery in Saint-Domingue.

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−	[[image:port_au_prince_from_space.jpg\|right\|thumb\|260px\|Port-au-Prince seen from outerspace.]]'''Port-au-Prince''', ([[Kreyòl]]: ''Pòtoprens''; Spanish: ''Puerto Príncipe'') (18°32′N 72°20′W) is the capital and largest city of the [[Republic of Haiti]]. It is located on a bay of the Gulf of La Gonave in the department Ouest (''West''). It's current population (2005) is estimated at 2.5 to 3 million people. Among it's larger suburbs are Carrefour, Delmas and [[Pétionville]]. Port-au-Prince is home to most of the countries assembly and manufacturing industries (electronics, garments and baseballs) and has major port facilities and the nearby Toussaint Louverture International Airport (PAP), renamed after [[Louverture]] during President Jean-Bertrand Aristide's last period in office.	+	[[image:port_au_prince_from_space.jpg\|right\|thumb\|260px\|Port-au-Prince seen from outerspace.]] [[image:Haitian_bicentennial_celebration_2004.jpg\|right\|thumb\|260px\|Bicentennial celebrations in '''Port-au-Prince''' (2004).]] '''Port-au-Prince''', ([[Kreyòl]]: ''Pòtoprens''; Spanish: ''Puerto Príncipe'') (18°32′N 72°20′W) is the capital and largest city of the [[Republic of Haiti]]. It is located on a bay of the Gulf of La Gonave in the department Ouest (''West''). It's current population (2005) is estimated at 2.5 to 3 million people. Among it's larger suburbs are Carrefour, Delmas and [[Pétionville]]. Port-au-Prince is home to most of the countries assembly and manufacturing industries (electronics, garments and baseballs) and has major port facilities and the nearby Toussaint Louverture International Airport (PAP), renamed after [[Louverture]] during President Jean-Bertrand Aristide's last period in office.

	Port-au-Prince is home to many cultural institutions such as the National Art Museum.		Port-au-Prince is home to many cultural institutions such as the National Art Museum.

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 * [[Toussaint Louverture letter to Jean-Jacques Dessalines (1802)|Toussaint Louverture letter to Jean-Jacques Dessalines]] - Letter from [[1802]], in which Toussaint Louverture asks Jean-Jacques Dessalines to burn down the city to repel the French forces seeking to reestablish slavery in Saint-Domingue.
 * [[General Whyte's Proclamation to the People of Saint-Domingue (1794)]] - After the British capture of Port-au-Prince; specifically addresses it's inhabitants.
 * [[French Cruelties in St. Domingue (1802)|French Cruelties in St. Domingue]] - 1802 article from the ''Courier of New Hampshire''.

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 ===Miscellaneous links===
-=====Infrastructure======
+=====Infrastructure=====
 * [http://www.tramz.com/ht/ppe.html The Tramways of Haiti] - Images and text about early railways in Port-au-Prince.
 ** [http://www.tramz.com/ht/ppe.html Port-au-Prince railway and tram map] - (1930)

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-[[image:port_au_prince_from_space.jpg|right|thumb|240px|Port-au-Prince seen from outerspace.]]'''Port-au-Prince''', ([[Kreyòl]]: ''Pòtoprens''; Spanish: ''Puerto Príncipe'') (18°32′N 72°20′W) is the capital and largest city of the [[Republic of Haiti]]. It is located on a bay of the Gulf of La Gonave in the department Ouest (''West''). It's current population (2005) is estimated at 2.5 to 3 million people. Among it's larger suburbs are Carrefour, Delmas and [[Pétionville]]. Port-au-Prince is home to most of the countries assembly and manufacturing industries (electronics, garments and baseballs) and has major port facilities and the nearby Toussaint Louverture International Airport (PAP), renamed after [[Louverture]] during President Jean-Bertrand Aristide's last period in office.
+[[image:port_au_prince_from_space.jpg|right|thumb|260px|Port-au-Prince seen from outerspace.]]'''Port-au-Prince''', ([[Kreyòl]]: ''Pòtoprens''; Spanish: ''Puerto Príncipe'') (18°32′N 72°20′W) is the capital and largest city of the [[Republic of Haiti]]. It is located on a bay of the Gulf of La Gonave in the department Ouest (''West''). It's current population (2005) is estimated at 2.5 to 3 million people. Among it's larger suburbs are Carrefour, Delmas and [[Pétionville]]. Port-au-Prince is home to most of the countries assembly and manufacturing industries (electronics, garments and baseballs) and has major port facilities and the nearby Toussaint Louverture International Airport (PAP), renamed after [[Louverture]] during President Jean-Bertrand Aristide's last period in office.
 Port-au-Prince is home to many cultural institutions such as the National Art Museum.
 ===History of Port-au-Prince===
-[[image:port_au_prince_area_1799.jpg|right|thumb|240px|The Bay of Port-au-Prince in [[1798]].]] At the end of the 15th century, at the time of [[Columbus]] arrival, the region around Port-au-Prince was under the control of a [[Taíno]] ruler by the name of [[Bohechio]], but there was no major settlement.
+[[image:port_au_prince_area_1799.jpg|right|thumb|260px|The Bay of Port-au-Prince in [[1798]].]]
 Port-au-Prince was founded in 1749 by French sugar planters, in what was then the French colony of [[Saint-Domingue]]. In 1770, it became the capital, replacing [[Le Cap|Cap Français]], and in [[1804]] it became the capital of newly-independent Haiti. The city was captured by British troops on June 4, [[1794]]. By October [[1798]] the British troops, led by [[Thomas Maitland]], were defeated by [[Toussaint Louverture]] and his fellow revolutionaries and left the colony.
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 ==External links==
 ===Embassies in Port-au-Prince===
 * [http://www.ambafrance-ht.org/ Ambassade de France en Haïti] - French Embassy in Haiti. (French text)
 * [http://www.auswaertiges-amt.de/diplo/de/Laender/DeutscheAVen/Haiti/DeutscheVertretungen.html Botschaft der Bundesrepublik Deutschland in Haiti] - Contact info for German embassy in Port-au-Prince