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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 three main avenues in the district, Lạc Long Quân, Âu Cơ, and An Dương Vương, were names of leaders of early Vietnamese civilization.The smaller streets in the district are named after renowned Vietnamese poets, artists and music composers, such as Xuân Diệu, Tô Ngọc Vân, Trịnh Công Sơn, Nguyễn Đình Thi and Đặng Thai Mai.
Temples to the Trưng Sisters or Hai Bà Trưng Temples were found from as early as the end of the Third Era of Northern Domination. [34] The best known Hai Bà Trưng Temple is in Hanoi near Hoàn Kiếm Lake. [35] [36] [37] The temple was constructed by king Lý Anh Tông (r. 1138–1176) in 1158. According to tradition, in that year a ...
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Sơn Tây (listen ⓘ) is a district-level town ("thị xã") in Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam.It was the capital of Sơn Tây province before merging with Hà Đông province to form Hà Tây province in 1965.
The Hai Van Pass has also been the scene of at least two of Vietnam's most serious rail accidents, and at least one air crash. 24 June 1953 – 1953 Col des Nuages derailment : "About 100 or more" were killed when two locomotives and 18 cars of a passenger train plunged 50 feet through a sabotaged viaduct in the Col des Nuages, now known as the ...
AC-47 gunships held back the PAVN/VC while a platoon of Marines mounted in amphibian tractors, with tanks and helicopter gunships escorting, attacked east from An Hoa to reinforce the hamlet and bring an ammunition resupply. The battle raged for five hours, during which the Marines threw back four attack waves.
Vietnam, [e] [f] officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, [g] [h] is a country at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of about 331,000 square kilometres (128,000 sq mi) and a population of over 100 million, making it the world's fifteenth-most populous country.