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Quách Thị Trang Square (Vietnamese: Công trường Quách Thị Trang) is the city square in front of the well-known Bến Thành Market in District 1, downtown Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. [ 1 ] The square was known for its landscaped traffic circle featuring the equestrian statue of Trần Nguyên Hãn [ vi ] and the white bust of Quách ...
This square mandala has four similar protruding rectangular ‘gates’ in the cardinal directions guarded each by similar but smaller rectangular ‘gates’ on the left and right. Within the square there is an eight petalled flower or rayed-star, recently called as Maklang ‘Star fort’ by the locals, in the centre covering a total area of ...
One Pillar Pagoda in 1896. During Nguyễn dynasty, the pagoda was restored and rebuilt in 1840-1850 and 1922.. The pagoda was dynamited in 1954. Contrary to what is commonly written, it was not destroyed by the French, but by a Vietnamese Lieutenant of the French Army who was severely punished.
Hanoi, Vietnam Coordinates: 21°2′12″N 105°50′9″E / 21.03667°N 105.83583°E / 21.03667; 105 Ba Đình Square ( Vietnamese : Quảng trường Ba Đình ) is the name of a square in Hanoi where president Ho Chi Minh read the Proclamation of Independence of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam on September 2, 1945. [ 1 ]
Map from the Đại Nam nhất thống chí. The Đại Nam nhất thống chí (chữ Hán: 大南一統志, 1882) is the official geographical record of Vietnam's Nguyễn dynasty written in chữ Hán compiled in the late nineteenth century. [1] It also contains historical records of military campaigns. [2] [3]
The Vietnamese Wikipedia initially went online in November 2002, with a front page and an article about the Internet Society.The project received little attention and did not begin to receive significant contributions until it was "restarted" in October 2003 [3] and the newer, Unicode-capable MediaWiki software was installed soon after.
Đại Nam Văn Hiến includes a 5,000-square-meter (54,000 sq ft) temple – a replica of the main temple in Hue – with a lotus-shaped flag tower and 13.5-kilometer wall. Outside of the complex lies Bao Son, which at 63 meters tall and 250 meters in length is the biggest man-made mountain in Vietnam.
Mạc Đĩnh Chi (莫 挺 之; 1272–1346) was a renowned Vietnamese Confucian scholar who was the highest-scoring graduate in the palace examinations at the age of only twenty-four. He served three Trần dynasty emperors—first Trần Anh Tông until 1314, then his son Trần Minh Tông from 1314 to 1319, and finally the grandson Trần ...