Audiencia of Santo Domingo

E191790

The Audiencia of Santo Domingo was a high court and administrative district of the Spanish Empire in the Caribbean, centered in Santo Domingo and overseeing colonial governance and justice in parts of Spanish America.

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Label Occurrences
Audiencia of Santo Domingo canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf administrative district
high court
royal audiencia
appliesToJurisdiction Captaincy General of Santo Domingo
Caribbean
Central America
Cuba
Mainland provinces bordering the Caribbean Sea
Puerto Rico
Spanish America
Spanish colonial subjects
Spanish colonies in the Caribbean
Venezuela
capital Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
surface form: Santo Domingo
continent North America
South America
country Spanish Empire
dissolved 19th century
establishedBy Crown of Spain
surface form: Spanish Crown
follows Castilian law
ordinances of the Council of the Indies
royal decrees
governs colonial governance and justice in parts of Spanish America
hasJurisdictionOver administrative disputes
appeals from lower colonial courts
civil cases
criminal cases
hasPart alguacil mayor
fiscal
oidores
president
hasRole administrative authority
court of appeal
governing body
judicial authority
legislative advisory body
royal representative
inception 16th century
language Spanish
locatedIn Hispaniola
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
surface form: Santo Domingo

Viceroyalty of New Spain
namedAfter Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
surface form: Santo Domingo
partOf Council of the Indies
surface form: Council of the Indies system

Spanish West Indies
Spanish colonial administration
religion Roman Catholicism
replacedBy republican courts in successor states

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Spanish America includes Audiencia of Santo Domingo