Antillean Confederation

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Antillean Confederation Confederación de las Antillas
Flag
Antillean Confederation. Original proposed members in dark green and additional proposed members in light green.
Largest city	Santo Domingo
Official languages	Spanish
Area
• Total	167,429.78 km2 (64,645.00 sq mi) (89)
Today part of	Cuba, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico

The Antillean Confederation was the vehement idea of

The idea was supported by many of the generals who fought in wars such as the Dominican War of Independence, the Dominican Restoration War, the Ten Years' War, the Little War, the Cuban War of Independence, and the Grito de Lares uprising. Support was strongest from the 1850s up until the Spanish–American War, which transferred the colonies of Cuba and Puerto Rico from Spain to the United States, since then the support for the idea largely faded away.

Its main idea was to subsequently end

• Eugenio María de Hostos,^[1] also known as The Citizen of the Americas
• Gregorio Luperón, hero of the Dominican Restoration War
• José Martí, often referred to as The Apostle of Cuban Independence
• José de Diego
• Ramón Emeterio Betances
• Anténor Firmin

See also

• Spanish Caribbean
• History of Puerto Rico
• History of Dominican Republic
• History of Cuba
• Latin American integration
• Patria Grande

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