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Greensboro, city, Guilford county, north-central North Carolina, U.S. Situated about 25 miles (40 km) east of Winston-Salem, Greensboro forms a triangular metropolitan area, the Piedmont Triad, with that city and High Point. The first settlers arrived from the Northern colonies in the early 1700s and established a permanent settlement by about 1740. It became the county seat in 1808, named for Gen. Nathanael Greene, who commanded the American forces that defeated British troops led by...

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