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MacAlpine, McAlpine, MacAlpin or McAlpin is a Scottish surname. It may refer to: ... McAlpine Stadium, the former name of Kirklees Stadium in Huddersfield, England;
Bùi Hoàng Việt Anh: Bùi Hoàng: Việt Anh (no middle name) B. H. Việt Anh BUI HOANG Viet Anh BUI HOANG V. A. Viet Anh BUI HOANG V. A. BUI HOANG [E] Tôn Nữ Thị Ninh: Tôn Nữ: Thị Ninh T. N. Thị Ninh T. N. T. Ninh [B] TON NU Thi Ninh TON NU T. N. Thi Ninh TON NU T. N. TON NU
The following year, the important Battle of Điện Biên Phủ was fought between the Việt Minh (led by General Võ Nguyên Giáp), and the French Union (led by General Henri Navarre, successor to General Raoul Salan). The siege of the French garrison lasted fifty-seven days, from 17:30, 13 March to 17:30, 7 May 1954.
Historical exonyms include place names of bordering countries, namely Thailand, Laos, China, and Cambodia. During the expansion of Vietnam some place names have become Vietnamized. Consequently, as control of different places and regions has shifted among China, Vietnam, and other Southeast Asian countries, the Vietnamese names for places can ...
The provinces of Vietnam are subdivided into second-level administrative units, namely districts (Vietnamese: huyện), provincial cities (thành phố trực thuộc tỉnh), and district-level towns (thị xã).
The name of the district literally means New Border; the area was part of the Khmer Empire until the 17th and 18th century when the southwards expansion of Vietnam under the Nguyễn lords brought it under the control of the Vietnamese people.
Valley of the Shadow: The Siege of Dien Bien Phu. Oxford: Osprey Press. ISBN 978-1472824370. Davidson, Phillip (1988). Vietnam at War: The History, 1946–1975. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-506792-4. "Ðiên Biên Phú – The "official and historical site" of the battle". Archived from the original on 5 December 2006
The name of Ninh Binh officially existed since 1822. [1] During the Nguyen dynasty , in August 1884 in the Tonkin campaign , the allegiance of Ninh Bình was of considerable importance to the French, as artillery mounted in its lofty citadel controlled river traffic to the Gulf of Tonkin .