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Hai Bà Trưng (Trưng Sisters District) is one of the four original urban districts (quận) of Hanoi, the capital city of Vietnam. [4] The district currently has 18 wards , [ 1 ] covering a total area of 10.26 square kilometres (3.96 sq mi). [ 2 ]
The Trưng sisters (Vietnamese: Hai Bà Trưng, 𠄩婆徵, literally "Two Ladies [named] Trưng", c. 14 – c. 43) were Luoyue military leaders who ruled for three years after commanding a rebellion of Luoyue tribes and other tribes in AD 40 against the first Chinese domination of Vietnam. They are regarded as national heroines of Vietnam.
According to tradition it was founded by Lý Anh Tông around 1160 after he visited a shrine to the Trưng Sisters, who then appeared to him as rain spirits. Culturally, the development of the cult of the sisters at that time is in the context of assertion of independence after the end of the Third Chinese domination of Vietnam - nearly 1000 ...
The Trưng sisters' rebellion was an uprising in the Jiaozhi province of Han dynasty (today Northern Vietnam) between 40 CE and 43 CE. In 40 CE, the Lạc Việt leader Trưng Trắc and her sister Trưng Nhị rebelled against Chinese authorities. In 42 CE, Han China dispatched General Ma Yuan to lead an army to strike down the uprising. In 43 ...
Hai Bà Trưng Temple is the name of several temples to the Trưng sisters in Vietnam: Hai Bà Trưng Temple (Đồng Nhân), a temple in Hai Bà Trưng District, Hanoi; Hai Bà Trưng Temple (Hạ Lôi), a temple in Mê Linh District, Hanoi (the sisters' homeland)
A flamboyant woman, Madame Nhu took to flashing around her handgun in public, and the Women's Solidarity Movement was intended to allow Vietnamese women to participate in the fight against the Viet Cong, just as the Trưng sisters had fought against the Chinese, but most of the women who joined the movement were upper-class women who believed ...
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Hoàng Mai is an urban district (quận) of Hanoi, the capital city of Vietnam. [3] The district currently has 14 wards , covering a total area of 40.32 square kilometres (15.57 sq mi). [ 1 ] As of 2019, [ 2 ] there were 506,347 people residing in the district, the highest of all districts in Hanoi.