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Đại La (Chinese: 大羅城; pinyin: Dàluóchéng), means the Citadel of the Great Dike, or La Thành (羅城, means the Citadel of the Dike) was an ancient fortified city in present-day Hanoi during the third Chinese domination of the 7th and 8th centuries, [1] and again in the 11th-century under Lý dynasty.
In 1010, under the Lý dynasty, Vietnamese emperor Lý Thái Tổ established the capital of the imperial Vietnamese nation Đại Việt in modern-day central Hanoi, naming the city Thăng Long (lit. ' ascending dragon '). In 1428, King Lê Lợi renamed the city to Đông Kinh (東京, lit. ' eastern capital '), and it remained so until 1789.
Đại La Citadel: Ba Đình District, Hanoi: Đại La: 905–938: Jinghai: Khúc clan and Dương clan: Cổ Loa: 939–968: Ngô dynasty: Cổ Loa Citadel: Đông Anh District, Hanoi: Hoa Lư: 968–980: Đại Cồ Việt: Đinh dynasty: Hoa Lư Citadel: Ninh Bình Province: 980–1009: Early Lê dynasty: 1009 – 1010: Later Lý dynasty ...
Đại La was known as the city that the Tang general Gao Pian had built in the 860s after the ravages of the Nanzhao War. In 1010, Lý Công Uẩn published the edict explaining why he move his capital to Dai La. Lý Công Uẩn chose the site because it had been an earlier capital in the rich Red River Delta. He saw Đại La as a place ...
The outermost sector is the primary defensive fortification of the citadel (called La thành or Kinh thành), the middle sector is the Imperial City (Vietnamese: Hoàng thành), between these two layers is a residential area, the innermost sector is the Forbidden City (or "Purple Forbidden City", from the Vietnamese Tử cấm thành; a term ...
In 1010, Lý Công Uẩn published an edict explaining why he moved his capital to Dai La. [4] Lý Công Uẩn chose the site because it had been an earlier capital in the rich Red River Delta. He saw Đại La as a place "between Heaven and Earth where the coiling dragon and the crouching tiger lie, and his capital would last 10,000 years". [ 7 ]
The airport is located in Phú Minh commune in Sóc Sơn district, about 35 km (22 mi) northeast of downtown Hanoi, via the new Nhật Tân Bridge (also inaugurated on 4 January 2015). [2] It can also be reached by National Road 3, which connects it with the eastern suburbs of Hanoi.
The Ngọc Sơn Temple (Vietnamese: Đền Ngọc Sơn, chữ Nôm: 𪽛玉山) is located on a islet in Hoàn Kiếm Lake, central Hanoi, Vietnam. History [ edit ]