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The Bạch Đằng River (Vietnamese: Sông Bạch Đằng, IPA: [ʂəwŋ ɓàjk̟ ɗâŋ]), also called Bạch Đằng Giang (from 白 藤 江), white wisteria river, is a river in northern Vietnam, located near Hạ Long Bay.
Kiến Tường is located about 80 kilometres (50 mi) west of Ho Chi Minh City, on the Vàm Cỏ Tây River [Wikidata] in the heart of the Đồng Tháp Mười wetland. [1]
Nguyễn Trung Trực (1838 [b] – 27 October 1868), born Nguyễn Văn Lịch, was a Vietnamese fisherman who organized and led village militia forces which fought against French colonial forces in the Mekong Delta in southern Vietnam in the 1860s.
The government of the Nguyễn dynasty, officially the Southern dynasty (Vietnamese: Nam Triều; chữ Hán: 南朝) [a] and commonly referred to as the Huế Court (Vietnamese: Triều đình Huế; chữ Hán: 朝廷化), centred around the emperor (皇帝, Hoàng Đế) as the absolute monarch, surrounded by various imperial agencies and ministries which stayed under the emperor's presidency.
While Đại Việt sử ký and Đại Việt sử ký toàn thư only regarded Mai Thúc Loan as a rebel (giặc) of the Tang authority, Ngô Thì Sĩ in Đại Việt sử ký tiền biên, compiled during the Tây Sơn dynasty, praised the uprising as a symbol of the independent spirit of Vietnamese people and thus criticized Lê Văn Hưu ...
The Dụ Ân Pagoda was where emperor Lý Công Ẩn, a member of the Lý dynesty, frequently practiced Buddhism. [7] The historic Paper Bridge, taken around 1884–1885. In the 12th year of Emperor Minh Mạng's reign (1831), the Nguyễn dynasty carried out administrative reforms, dividing the country into 29 provinces.
Archaeological sites show that, since ancient times, Long An has been an important territory of the Funan-Zhenla kingdom. [6] When Nguyễn Hữu Cảnh came to explore the South, Long An belonged to Gia Định prefecture. During the reign of Minh Mạng, Long An belonged to Gia Định province and partly to Định Tường province.
In the Khâm định Việt sử Thông giám cương mục, the writers expressed doubts about An Dương Vương's origin, claiming it was impossible for a Shu prince to cross thousands of miles, through forests, and many kingdoms to invade Văn Lang. However in the 1950s, historians Trần Văn Giáp and Đào Duy Anh argued that An Dương ...