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Panoramic view of the bridge The bridge, not long after completion Long Biên Bridge in 2010 The constructor panel of Daydé & Pillé, Paris. Long Biên Bridge (Vietnamese: Cầu Long Biên) is a historic cantilever bridge across the Red River that connects two districts, Hoàn Kiếm and Long Biên of the city of Hanoi, Vietnam.
This is a timeline of Vietnamese history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in Vietnam and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see History of Vietnam. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. Prehistory ...
Between 1872 and 1889, many bridges were designed by the Eiffel company, created in 1863 by Gustave Eiffel, when Vietnam was part of the French Indochina.However, some works are inadvertently attributed to the Eiffel company, the Truong Tien Bridge was designed by the company Schneider et Cie and Cie de Letellier while the Long Biên Bridge was designed by Daydé et Pillé [], the latter ...
Long Biên was the major Chinese entrepôt for foreign trade in antiquity and is one of major contenders for Ptolemy's Cattigara. The local products were bananas , areca nuts , sharkskin , python bile and kingfisher feathers, [ 2 ] although the district between it and Guangzhou was rich in silver , cinnabar and mercury . [ 11 ]
Việt Nam: a history from earliest time to the present. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780190053796. Taylor, K.W. (1983), The Birth of the Vietnamese, University of California Press; Taylor, K.W. (2013), A History of the Vietnamese, Cambridge University Press; Twitchett, Denis (2008), The Cambridge History of China 1, Cambridge University Press
This is a timeline of Early Independent Vietnam, covering the period of Vietnamese history from the rise of the Tĩnh Hải circuit ruled by the Khúc clan (r. 905–923/930) to the kingdom of Đại Cồ Việt ruled by the Early Lê dynasty (980–1009).
A dragon defiant: a short history of Vietnam. Praeger. Fall, Bernard B. (1967). Hell in a very small place: the siege of Dien Bien Phu. Lippincott. Kedward, Rod (2006). La vie en bleu: France and the French since 1900. Penguin. ISBN 978-0-14-013095-9. Roy, Jules (1963). The battle of Dienbienphu. Pyramid Books. Windrow, Martin (2005).
Wary about engaging in internal fighting that would only frustrate the people, Triệu Việt Vương negotiated a truce and peace. From Long Biên northward would be under Lý Phật Tử's rule and the land south of Long Biên would belong to Triệu Việt Vương. In 571, Lý Phật Tử broke the truce and attacked Triệu Quang Phục's ...