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Starting in 1054, Vietnam was called Đại Việt (Great Việt). [1] During the Hồ dynasty, Vietnam was called Đại Ngu. [2] Việt Nam (listen ⓘ in Vietnamese) is a variation of Nam Việt (Southern Việt), a name that can be traced back to the Triệu dynasty (2nd century BC, also known as Nanyue Kingdom). [3]
The history of Vietnam can be traced back to around 20,000 years ago. The earliest modern human inhabitants of Southeast Asia were Ancient East Eurasian hunter-gatherers that arrived in the area at least c. 40,000 BP, following the Out of Africa migration (before 60,000 BP).
On September 2, 1945, at Duc Anh Ba Đình Square, Ho Chi Minh, leader of the Viet Minh organization, declared Vietnam's independence under the new name of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRVN) in a speech that invoked the United States Declaration of Independence and the French Revolution 's Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen.
Vietnam, [e][f] officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, [g] is a country at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of about 331,000 square kilometres (128,000 sq mi) and a population of over 100 million, making it the world's fifteenth-most populous country.
This is a timeline of Vietnamese history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in Vietnam and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see History of Vietnam. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. Prehistory ...
The official name of the South Vietnamese state was the "Republic of Vietnam" (Vietnamese: Việt Nam Cộng hòa; French: République du Viêt Nam). The North was known as the "Democratic Republic of Vietnam". Việt Nam (Vietnamese pronunciation: [vjə̀tnam]) was the name adopted by Emperor Gia Long in 1804. [14] It is a variation of "Nam ...
The Empire of Vietnam (Vietnamese: Đế quốc Việt Nam; Literary Chinese and Contemporary Japanese: 越南帝國[a]; Modern Japanese: ベトナム帝国, Betonamu Teikoku) was a short-lived puppet state of Imperial Japan [1] governing the former French protectorates of Annam and Tonkin between March 11 and August 25, 1945.
North Vietnam (Democratic Republic of Vietnam) 1945–1976: Provisional Central Government: 1948–1949: State of Vietnam: 1949–1955: North–South division: 1954–1976: South Vietnam (Republic of Vietnam) 1955–1975: Provisional Revolutionary Government (Republic of South Vietnam) 1969–1976: Subsidy period: 1975–1986: Đổi Mới ...