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  2. Abdication of Bảo Đại - Wikipedia

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    The abdication of Bảo Đại (Vietnamese: Chiếu thoái vị của Hoàng Đế Bảo Đại) took place on 25 August 1945 and marked the end of the 143-year reign of the Nguyễn dynasty over Vietnam ending the Vietnamese monarchy.

  3. House of Nguyễn Phúc - Wikipedia

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    Flag of emperors Thành Thái, Duy Tân and Khải Định: A red field with a single yellow stripe. Referred to as the Long tinh or Dragon Star Flag. [41] 1920–1945: Flag of emperors Khải Định and Bảo Đại: A yellow field with a single red stripe. Referred to as the Long tinh or Dragon Star Flag. [41] 8 May–30 August 1945: Flag of ...

  4. First Indochina War - Wikipedia

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    Giáp tried again to break the French defensive line, this time 20 miles (32 km) north-east of Haiphong in an attempt to cut the French access to the port city. On March 23, the Việt Minh's 316th Division, composed of 11,000 men, with the partly rebuilt 308th and 312th Divisions in reserve, launched an attack on Mạo Khê. With instances of ...

  5. Trần Quốc Toản - Wikipedia

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    Marquis Hoài Văn, better known as Trần Quốc Toản (chữ Hán: 陳 國 瓚), born 1267 (fl. 1267–1285), was a marquis of the Trần dynasty who was well known for his active role in the second war of resistance of Đại Việt against the Mongol invasion.

  6. Battle of Mạo Khê - Wikipedia

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    The Mạo Khê coal mine was located 1,000 meters (3,300 feet) to the north of the town and was garrisoned by a company of partisans commanded by a Vietnamese lieutenant and three French NCOs. To the east of the town, a company from the 30th Senegalese Composite Battalion guarded a fortified Roman Catholic church.

  7. Government of the Nguyễn dynasty - Wikipedia

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    The government of the Nguyễn dynasty, officially the Southern dynasty (Vietnamese: Nam Triều; chữ Hán: 南朝) [a] and commonly referred to as the Huế Court (Vietnamese: Triều đình Huế; chữ Hán: 朝廷化), centred around the emperor (皇帝, Hoàng Đế) as the absolute monarch, surrounded by various imperial agencies and ministries which stayed under the emperor's presidency.

  8. Vietnam War casualties - Wikipedia

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    Da Nang was the primary storage site of the chemical. Two other cleanup sites being reviewed by the United States and Vietnam are Biên Hòa Air Base, in the southern province of Đồng Nai—a 'hotspot' for dioxin—and Phù Cát Air Base in Bình Định Province, according to U.S. Ambassador to

  9. Sino-Vietnamese vocabulary - Wikipedia

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    Sino-Vietnamese vocabulary (Vietnamese: từ Hán Việt, Chữ Hán: 詞漢越, literally 'Chinese-Vietnamese words') is a layer of about 3,000 monosyllabic morphemes of the Vietnamese language borrowed from Literary Chinese with consistent pronunciations based on Middle Chinese. Compounds using these morphemes are used extensively in cultural ...