 Complete the following phrase:  During the 19th century Puerto Plata was the most important port in the country and even became provisional capital and hosted the European and North American migration to the Dominican Republic. The majority were Germans traders and tobacco producers, most of them being from Hamburg and Bremen. There were also Englishmen, Dutch, Spaniards mainly from Catalonia, Puerto Ricans at least 30,000 between 1880 and 1940, Cubans at least 5,000 immigrated during the Ten Years War and Italians. After the 