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Haiti News Media > Haiti News > Fort-Liberte Fort-Liberté Is The Administrative Centre Of The Nord-Est Department, Haiti. Fort-Liberte is located around 19°40′4″N, 71°50′23″W. It is also the chief city of an arrondissement of the same name.
Fort-Liberteone of the oldest cities in the country, was founded in 1578. The French-designed town faces a bay where one can reach many forts by boat, the most famous being Fort-Dauphin, which was built in 1732.
The city was once called Bayaha by the Indians and the Spanish; the French called it Fort-Dauphin until their expulsion in 1804, upon which the city gained its present name.
After Henri Christophe proclaimed himself King Henri I of Haiti in 1811, he renamed the city Fort-Royal; after his death in 1820 it became Fort-Liberte again.
Nord-Est (English: North-East) is one of the ten departments (French: departements) of Haiti. It has an area of 1,805 km² and a population of 283,800 (2002). Its capital is Fort-LiberteIt borders the Dominican Republic to the east.
The department is divided into four arrondissements:
- Fort-Liberte
- Ouanaminthe
- le Trou-du-Nord
- Vallieres
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