FORT-LIBERTé

'Fort-Liberté' is the administrative centre of the Nord-Est Department, Haiti. It is located around . It is also the chief city of an arrondissement of the same name.
Fort-Liberté, one 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-Liberté again.

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★ Roman Catholic Diocese of Fort-Liberté