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Chợ Lớn (listen ⓘ, Chinese: 堤岸), usually anglicized as "Cholon" in English sources, is a quarter of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.It lies on the west bank of the Saigon River, having Bình Tây Market as its central market.
During the 1920s the area was administered by the Vụ Bản district mandarin. [note 2]The district includes the Vân Cát temple. [note 3]This is also the place of growth of many celebrities in many fields : Official Lương Thế Vinh, teacher Phạm Văn Nghị, writer Nguyễn Năng Tĩnh, politician Trần Tiến Đình, official Nguyễn Đức Thuận, poet Nguyễn Bính, scholar ...
General Lu Han's 200,000 Chinese soldiers occupied north Vietnam starting August 1945. 90,000 arrived by October, the 62nd army came on 26 September to Nam Dinh and Haiphong. Lang Son and Cao Bang were occupied by the Guangxi 62nd army corps and the red river region and Lai Cai were occupied by a column from Yunnan.
In 1787, through the Treaty of Versailles, Nguyễn Ánh (the future Emperor Gia Long) promised to cede Poulo Condor to the French. In exchange Louis XVI promised to help Nguyễn Ánh to regain the throne, by supplying 1,650 troops (1,200 Kaffir troops, 200 artillery men and 250 black soldiers) on four frigates .
Dumb Luck (Số đỏ) is a 1936 novel by the famous Vietnamese novelist, Vũ Trọng Phụng.The novel served as a contemporary critique on the Vietnamese late colonial society by the means of satirizing the rising bourgeoisie.
Vũ - Võ (武) Vietnamese Five Colors Flag. Vũ or Võ is a common Vietnamese surname that, through genealogy records, has been present in Vietnam since the 9th century.[1] [2] The Vũ surname originates from general Wǔ Hún (武浑) of the Tang Dynasty in Imperial China who was appointed governor of the Annan Protectorate (Northern Vietnam). [3]
Côn Đảo Prison (Vietnamese: Nhà tù Côn Đảo), also Côn Sơn Prison, is a prison on Côn Sơn Island (also known as Côn Lôn), the largest island of the Côn Đảo archipelago in southern Vietnam (today it is in Bà Rịa–Vũng Tàu province).
Vũ Đình Long. Vũ Đình Long (19 December 1896 - 14 August 1960) was a Vietnamese dramatist noted for the first western style spoken play in Vietnamese - A cup of Poison in 1921.