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Lê Văn Viễn. Major General Lê Văn Viễn (Vietnamese: [lē vāŋ vǐəŋˀ]; 1904–1972), also known as Bảy Viễn ("Viễn the Seventh"), was the leader of the Bình Xuyên, a powerful Vietnamese criminal enterprise decreed by the Head of State, Bảo Đại, as an independent army within the Vietnamese National Army (Quân đội ...
Central Greenland ice core reconstructed temperature up to mid-19th century. In climatology, the 8.2-kiloyear event was a sudden decrease in global temperatures that occurred approximately 8,200 years before the present, or c. 6,200 BC, and which lasted for the next two to four centuries.
Hạ Long Bay is located in northeastern Vietnam, from E106°55' to E107°37' and from N20°43' to N21°09'. The bay stretches from Quang Yen town, past Hạ Long city, Cẩm Phả city to Vân Đồn District, is bordered on the south and southeast by Lan Ha Bay, on the north by Hạ Long city, and on the west by Bai Tu Long Bay.
Quảng Bình is a southern coastal province in the North Central Coast region, the Central of Vietnam. It borders Hà Tĩnh to the north, Quảng Trị to the south, Khammouane of Laos to the west and the East Sea (Gulf of Tonkin) to the east. Quảng Bình was formerly Tiên Bình under the reign of Lê Trung Hưng of the Lê dynasty (this ...
Bảy Núi (Vietnamese: [ɓa᷉ːj nǔj], Chữ Nôm: 罷𡶀, seven mountains), also known by the Sino-Vietnamese version Thất Sơn (Vietnamese: [tʰə́k ʂəːŋ], Chữ Hán: 七山), is a range of small mountains located in the Tri Tôn and Tịnh Biên districts in Vietnam 's An Giang Province, very close to the Cambodian border. The ...
Awards. Hero's Medal of the Vietnamese People's Army. Nguyễn Văn Bảy (1936 – September 22, 2019), was a Vietnamese jet fighter ace for the Vietnam People's Air Force ( North Vietnamese Air Force) during the Vietnam War. Piloting a MiG-17 F while assigned to the 923rd Fighter Regiment, Bay claimed 7 aerial combat victories while engaged ...
[14] [18] [21] During the Lê dynasty, Hanoi was known as Đông Kinh (東京), [22] which gave the name to Tonkin and Gulf of Tonkin. A square adjacent to the Hoàn Kiếm lake was named Đông Kinh Nghĩa Thục after the reformist Tonkin Free School under French colonization.
Darker blue represent a larger number of overseas Vietnamese people by percent. Overseas Vietnamese (Vietnamese: người Việt hải ngoại, Việt kiều or kiều bào) are a group of people who are of Vietnamese origin and live outside Vietnam, mostly Kinh people. There are approximately 5 million overseas Vietnamese, the largest ...