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Meaning & History
From a Taíno name for the Caribbean island of Hispaniola, which is made up of Haiti and the Dominican Republic. It has been applied poetically to the Dominican Republic since the Restoration War in the 1860s, and appears in its national anthem (sometimes known as 'Valiant Quisqueyans'). A known bearer was Quisqueya Henríquez (1966-2024), a Dominican conceptual artist.