Place details
Place nameSaint Vincent and the Grenadines
Other namesSaint Vincent, St Vincent and the Grenadines, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Saint-Vincent-et-les-Grenadines, San Vicente y las Granadinas, Sankt Vincent und die Grenadinen, São Vicente e Granadinas, VCT, VC, ISO670, VC00, Saint Vincentian, Vincentian
Latitude13.083
Longitude-61.2
SourceThesaurus of Geographic Names
Overview
Inhabited by Caribs when Columbus sighted main island in 1498; Caribs repelled early European invasions; some settlement by Black Caribs (from African slaves shipwrecked in 1675); French and British vied for the area in the 18th century; Africans were brought as slaves; official language is English, though a French patois is also spoken.
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