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After the capture of Phú Xuân, the Trịnh lords' general Hoàng Ngũ Phúc made a tactical alliance with Tây Sơn and withdrew almost all troops to Tonkin and left some troops in Phú Xuân. [13] In 1786, Tây Sơn rebellion defeated the Trịnh garrison and occupied Phú Xuân. [14] Under the reign of emperor Quang Trung, Phú Xuân became ...
Thanh Xuân is an urban district (quận) of Hanoi, the capital city of Vietnam. [3] The district currently has 11 wards , covering a total area of 9.09 square kilometers. [ 1 ] As of 2019, [ 2 ] there were 293,524 people residing in the district, the population density is 32,000 inhabitants per square kilometer.
Huế ( Vietnamese: [hwě] ⓘ) is the capital of Thừa Thiên Huế province in the North Central Coast region of Vietnam, located near the center of Vietnam. The original site was a Cham city known as Kandarpapura and later as Amarendrapura and was the capital of the Champa Kingdom from 192 to 605. Following the conquest of city in 1307 by ...
800 killed. 2,416 wounded [ 2] The Battle of Ban Me Thuot was a decisive battle of the Vietnam War which led to the complete destruction of South Vietnam 's II Corps Tactical Zone. The battle was part of a larger North Vietnamese military operation known as Campaign 275 to capture the Tay Nguyen region, known in the West as the Vietnamese ...
The name Tết is a shortening of Tết Nguyên Đán, literally written as tết (meaning festivals; only used in festival names) and nguyên đán which means the first day of the year. Both words come from Sino-Vietnamese respectively, 節 (SV: tiết) and 元旦. The word for festival is usually lễ hội, a Sino-Vietnamese word, 禮會.
The least populous is Bắc Kạn, a mountainous province in the remote northeast with 338,000 people. In land area, the largest province is Nghệ An, which runs from the city of Vinh up the wide Sông Cả valley. The smallest is Bắc Ninh, located in the populous Red River Delta region.
The President of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam ( Vietnamese: Chủ tịch nước Cộng hòa xã hội chủ nghĩa Việt Nam) is the head of state of Vietnam, elected by the National Assembly of Vietnam from its delegates. Since Vietnam is a one-party state, candidates for the post are nominated by the Central Committee of the Communist ...
James Sikking, who starred as a hardened police lieutenant on “Hill Street Blues” and as the titular character's kindhearted dad on “Doogie Howser, M.D.,” has died at 90. Sikking died of ...