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Greytown (Nicaragua)

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Geographic headingGreytown (Nicaragua)
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See alsoSan Juan del Norte (Nicaragua)
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Special noteSUBJECT USAGE: This heading is not valid for use as a subject. Works about this place are entered under San Juan del Norte (Nicaragua)
Found inEncyc. Brit., 15th ed.: Micro. VIII, p. 863 (San Juan del Norte, city, southeastern Río San Juan department, southeastern Nicaragua. Formerly called Greytown ... 10°56ʹN, 83°42ʹW)
The Times atlas of the world, 7th comp. ed.: plate 115 (S. Juan del Norte (Greytown))
BGN gaz., Nicaragua, 1985: p. 68 (gives x-ref. from Greytown to San Juan del Norte; ppl, coordinates: 10°55ʹN, 83°42ʹW)
"Greytown is no more!", 2023: CIP galley (In 1854 U.S. Naval forces bombarded and burned San Juan del Norte (Greytown); the city San Juan del Norte was the port at the mouth of the San Juan River on the Atlantic coast; the town had been seized from Nicaragua by the British in 1848 and renamed Greytown (after their governor of Jamaica, Charles Edward Grey); a tiny village of 500)