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The Hoa people, also known as Vietnamese Chinese ( Vietnamese: Người Hoa, Chinese: 華人; pinyin: Huárén or Chinese: 唐人; Jyutping: tong4 jan4) are the citizens and nationals of Vietnam of full or partial Han Chinese ancestry. Chinese migration into Vietnam dates back millennia but allusions to the contemporary Hoa today mostly refers ...
t. e. Ngô Đình Diệm ( / djɛm / dyem, [ 2] / ˈjiːəm / YEE-əm or / ziːm / zeem; Vietnamese: [ŋō ɗìn jîəmˀ] ⓘ; 3 January 1901 – 2 November 1963) was a South Vietnamese politician who was the final prime minister of the State of Vietnam (1954–1955) and later the first president of South Vietnam ( Republic of Vietnam) from ...
The Viet Cong [nb 1] was an epithet and umbrella term to call the communist-driven armed movement and united front organization in South Vietnam.Formally organized as and led by the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam [nb 2] and nominally conducted military operations under the name of the Liberation Army of South Vietnam (LASV), the movement fought under the direction of North Vietnam ...
Vietnam, [ e][ f] officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, [ g] 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.
Length. Surface. ft. m. 2,700. 823. asphalt. An Hòa Combat Base (also known as Đức Dục) is a former U.S. Marine Corps and Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) base west of Hội An in Quảng Nam Province, Vietnam .
Nguồn - possibly Mường group, officially classified as a Việt (Kinh) group by the government, Nguồn themselves identify with Việt ethnicity; their language is a member of the Viet–Muong branch of the Vietic sub-family. Sui (Người Thủy) - officially classified as Pa Then people.
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 ...
The 1945–1946 War in Vietnam, codenamed Operation Masterdom [3] by the British, and also known as the Southern Resistance War (Vietnamese: Nam Bộ kháng chiến) [4] [5] by the Vietnamese, was a post–World War II armed conflict involving a largely British-Indian and French task force and Japanese troops from the Southern Expeditionary Army Group, versus the Vietnamese communist movement ...