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Reunification Day (Vietnamese: Ngày Thống nhất), also known as Victory Day (Ngày Chiến thắng), Liberation Day (Ngày Giải phóng or Ngày Giải phóng miền Nam), or by its official name, Day of the Liberation of the South and National Reunification (Ngày giải phóng miền Nam, thống nhất đất nước) [2] is a public holiday in Vietnam that marks the event when the ...
Duong Van Mai Elliott was born in 1941 into a middle-class family with eleven other siblings. [3] Her father held several official positions under the French-controlled Vietnamese government . [ 3 ] He later became the post- WWII governor of Haiphong , following his family's long-standing tradition of serving in various bureaucratic roles. [ 3 ]
The Lịch sử nước An Nam (History of Annam) is a history text written by Benedict Thiện in 1659, covering the history of Vietnam from early mythology to the year 1593.
Dương Văn Minh (Vietnamese: [jɨəŋ van miŋ̟] ⓘ; 16 February 1916 – 6 August 2001), popularly known as Big Minh, was a South Vietnamese politician and a senior general in the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) and a politician during the presidency of Ngô Đình Diệm.
He cornered the Southern Han garrison inside Đại La and defeated their relief force, afterwards establishing himself as jiedushi. Dương Đình Nghệ was killed eventually by his general Kiều Công Tiễn who then moved up to the post of governor/administrator.
[19] [18] There, he and King An Duong's daughter, Mỵ Châu, fell in love and were married. [18] [20] A vestige of the matrilocal organization required the husband to live in the residence of his wife's family. [21] As a result, they resided at An Duong's court until Zhong Shi discovered the secrets and strategies of King An Dương. [21]
Vietnamese martyrs Paul Mi, Pierre Duong, Pierre Truat, martyred on 18 December 1838. Christians at the time were branded on the face with the words "tả đạo" (左 道, lit. "unorthodox religion") [5] and families and villages which subscribed to Christianity were obliterated. [6]
Born in 1947 in Thái Bình a province in northern Vietnam, Hương came of age just as the Vietnam War was turning violent. At the age of twenty, when she was a student at Vietnamese Ministry of Culture’s Arts College, Dương Thu Hương volunteered to serve in a women’s youth brigade on the front lines of "The War Against the Americans".