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Hoa businessmen also controlled trade in strategic wholesale markets such as Binh Tay, An Dong, and Soai Kinh Lam. [226] In addition, the Hoa also controlled the entire wholesale system, where upwards 60 percent of retail goods were distributed by Hoa entrepreneurs throughout various Southern Vietnamese provinces and into the neighbouring ...
The former Qin commander Zhao Tuo (Trieu Da in Vietnamese) established the state of Nanyue in 204 BC and had conquered Âu Lạc in 180 BC, incorporating the Vietnamese realm into his own. [6] In 112 BC, Emperor Wu of Han dispatched soldiers against Nanyue and the kingdom was annexed in 111 BC during the ensuing Han conquest of Nanyue .
Sino-Vietnamese vocabulary (Vietnamese: từ Hán Việt, Chữ Hán: 詞漢越, literally 'Chinese-Vietnamese words') is a layer of about 3,000 monosyllabic morphemes of the Vietnamese language borrowed from Literary Chinese with consistent pronunciations based on Middle Chinese.
[6] Lê Thị Phi Ánh Thứ phi Phương Minh (1949–2012) Bảo Ân (b. 1953) Sister-in-law of Prime Minister Phan Văn Giáo Vicky Mistress Phương Từ (1955) This daughter by a French woman has "a half European Asian beauty." [6] Christiane Bloch-Carcenac Mistress Patrick-Édouard Bloch-Carcenac (b. 1958) Affair occurred in 1957–1970
Most of ancient northern Vietnam was referred as the Lạc Việt which was considered to be part of the Baiyue region in ancient Chinese texts. [1]: 26 Prior to the Chinese conquest, the Tai nobles first came in Northern Vietnam during the Đông Sơn era, and they started to assimilate the local Mon-Khmer and Kra-dai people in a processed referred as Tai-ization or Tai-ification as the Tai ...
The Imperial Citadel of Thăng Long (Vietnamese: Hoàng thành Thăng Long; chữ Hán: 皇城 昇龍) is a complex of historic buildings associated with the history of Vietnam located in the centre of Hanoi, Vietnam.
In 1469, all of Dai Viet was mapped and a full census, listing all the villages in the kingdom, was taken. Around this time, the country was divided into 13 dao (provinces). [10] Each was administrated by a Governor, a Judge, and the local army commander. Thánh Tông also ordered that a new census should be taken every six years. [11]
Hoàn Kiếm Lake (Vietnamese: Hồ Hoàn Kiếm, chữ Hán: 湖還劍, meaning "Lake of the Returned Sword" or "Lake of the Restored Sword"), also known as Sword Lake (Hồ Gươm) or Tả Vọng Lake (Hồ Tả Vọng), is a fresh water lake, measuring some 12 ha in the historical center of Hanoi, the capital city of Vietnam.