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Grenada (/ ɡ r ə ˈ n eɪ d ə / ⓘ grə-NAY-də; Grenadian Creole French: Gwenad, ) is an island country of the West Indies in the eastern Caribbean Sea.The southernmost of the Windward Islands, Grenada is directly south of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and about 100 miles (160 km) north of Trinidad and the South American mainland.
A country demonym denotes the people or the inhabitants of or from there; for example, "Germans" are people of or from Germany. Demonyms are given in plural forms. Singular forms simply remove the final s or, in the case of -ese endings, are the same as the plural forms. The ending -men has feminine equivalent -women (e.g. Irishman, Scotswoman).
That is, the indigenous names were somewhat reversed in Grenada: the people the French called "Caribs" were likely descendants of the earliest peoples on Grenada, whereas the Galibis appear to have been more recent arrivals from the mainland (and thus, closer to the Carib stereotype).
Grenadian is an adjective describing someone or something from the country of Grenada. It may refer to: Grenadian Creole English, an Eastern Atlantic Creole; Grenadian Creole French or Patois, a variety of Antillean Creole French; Grenadian cuisine, a diversity of foods; Grenadian dollar, a history and overview of the currency
The slaves of Central Africa numbered more than 12,000 people, 11% of the enslaved of Grenada. [7] Many of the enslaved people were also Mandinka. The first British census of Grenada, in 1700, recorded 525 slaves and 53 freed from slavery living on the island.
British Grenada people (2 C, 3 P) D. Grenadian diaspora (3 C, 2 P) Grenadian people with disabilities (1 P) G. Grenadian recipients of the Victoria Cross (1 P) N.
This list is a compilation of the indigenous names that were given by Amerindian people to the Caribbean islands before the Europeans started naming them. The islands of the Caribbean were successively settled since at least around 5000 BC, long before European arrival in 1492.
In Grenada, Indians have functioned within and alongside the dominant Afro-Grenadian cultural formation for 150 years now." [2] Following the abolition of slavery in 1833 [3] and the full emancipation of African slaves in Grenada in 1838, plantation owners in the region sought to find alternate sources of labour. Grenadian planters initially ...