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In what year the city was changed from locality to the city of Santiago de los Caballeros?

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During the Haitian occupation from 1822 to 1844 it was officially designated as Saint-Yague. Founded in 1495 during the first wave of European settlement in the New World, the city is the "first Santiago of the Americas".

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