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The Empire of Vietnam ( Vietnamese: Đế quốc Việt Nam; Literary Chinese and Contemporary Japanese: 越南帝國[ a]; Modern Japanese: ベトナム帝国, Betonamu Teikoku) was a short-lived puppet state of Imperial Japan [ 1] governing the former French protectorates of Annam and Tonkin between March 11 and August 25, 1945.
The Nguyễn dynasty ( chữ Nôm: 茹阮, Vietnamese: Nhà Nguyễn; chữ Hán: 朝阮, Vietnamese: triều Nguyễn) was the last Vietnamese dynasty, which was preceded by the Nguyễn lords and ruled the unified Vietnamese state independently from 1802 to 1883 before being a French protectorate.
An Giang occupies a position in the upper reaches of the Mekong Delta. The Hậu Giang and Tiền Giang branches of the Mekong River are the dominant geographical features of the province. With the exception of the west, most of An Giang is fairly flat and is criss-crossed by many canals and small rivers. This terrain has led to An Giang being ...
An Dương Vương ( Vietnamese: [ʔaːn zɨəŋ vɨəŋ] ), personal name Thục Phán, was the founding king and the only ruler of the kingdom of Âu Lạc, an ancient state centered in the Red River Delta. As the leader of the Âu Việt tribes, he defeated the last Hùng king of the state of Văn Lang and united its people – known as the ...
The Viện cơ mật or "Secret Institute" ( chữ Nôm: 院機密; chữ Hán: 機密院; French: Conseil privé, Conseil d’État, Chambre haute ), [1] established in 1834, was the Privy Council and key mandarin agency of the imperial court of Vietnam's final Nguyễn dynasty at Huế, until the end of the dynasty in 1945.
The history of Vietnam can be traced back to around 20,000 years ago. The first modern humans to arrive and settle in the area of modern-day Vietnam are known as the Hoabinhians, who can be traced as the ancestors of modern-day Negritos. Archaeological findings from 1965, which are still under research, show the remains of two hominins closely ...
8 wounded. 5 helicopters destroyed. The Battle of Ấp Bắc was a major battle fought on 2 January 1963 during the Vietnam War in Định Tường Province (now part of Tiền Giang Province ), South Vietnam. On 28 December 1962, US intelligence detected the presence of a radio transmitter along with a sizable force of Viet Cong (VC) soldiers ...
Cities in Vietnam are identified by the government as settlements with considerable area and population that play important roles vis-a-vis politics, economy and culture. . Status of cities falls into four categories: special, first class (I), second class (II), and third class (I