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Chợ Lớn was incorporated as a city in 1879, 11 kilometers (6.8 mi) from Saigon. By the 1930s, it had expanded to the city limit of Saigon. On April 27, 1931, Chợ Lớn and the neighboring city of Saigon were merged to form a single city called Saigon–Cholon .
District 11 (Vietnamese: Quận 11) is an urban district of Ho Chi Minh City, the largest city in Vietnam. As of 2010, the district had a population of 232,536 and an area of 5 km². [ 1 ] It is divided into 16 small subsets which are called wards (phường) , numbered from Ward 1 to Ward 16.
Lạc Long Quân ("Dragon King of Lạc", also known as Sùng Lãm) is an ancient king of the Hồng Bàng dynasty of ancient Vietnam.Quân was the son of Kinh Dương Vương, the king of Xích Quỷ.
Âu Cơ statue at Kỳ Quang Temple. Âu Cơ was a beautiful young tiên (immortal) who lived high in the snow-capped mountains. She traveled to help those who suffered from illnesses since she was very skillful in medicine and had a sympathetic heart.
Thùy Tiên was born on August 12, 1998, in Ho Chi Minh City. She once read French Language at the Faculty of French Language of University of Social Sciences and Humanities, a member of Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh City system before switching to a new major and then obtaining her Bachelor's degree in International Hotel and Restaurant Management (joint program with Vatel) from ...
Trần Hưng Đạo (Vietnamese: [ʈə̂n hɨŋ ɗâːwˀ]; 1228–1300), real name Trần Quốc Tuấn (陳國峻), also known as Grand Prince Hưng Đạo (Hưng Đạo Đại Vương – 興道大王), was a Vietnamese royal prince, statesman and military commander of Đại Việt military forces during the Trần dynasty.
Quan Am Temple is a Chinese-style Buddhist temple located on Lao Tu Street in Cho Lon, District 5, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Founded in the 19th century, it is dedicated to Guanyin ( Vietnamese : Quan Âm ), the Chinese goddess of mercy and the Chinese form of the Indian bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara .
Đinh Bộ Lĩnh was born in 924 in Hoa Lư (south of the Red River Delta, in what is today Ninh Bình Province).Growing up in a local village during the disintegration of the Chinese Tang dynasty that had dominated Vietnam for centuries, Đinh Bộ Lĩnh became a local military leader at a very young age.