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Bình Sơn (listen ⓘ) is a rural district (huyện) of Quảng Ngãi province in the South Central Coast region of Vietnam. It is the birthplace of the Vietnamese mandarin and anti-French guerrilla leader Trương Định. As of 2003 the district had a population of 177,943. [1] The district covers an area of 464 km².
Sơn Trà, Bình Sơn District, Quảng Ngãi, South Vietnam 88 Viet Cong: Thanh Phong massacre (disputed) February 25, 1969 Thanh Phong village of Bến Tre Province, South Vietnam 21 U.S. Navy: Son Thang massacre: February 19, 1970 Son Thang, South Vietnam 16 killed U.S. Marine Corps: Thạnh Mỹ massacre: June 11, 1970
Bình Sơn Pagoda (Vietnamese: Tháp Bình Sơn) is an 11-story terracotta pagoda at Vĩnh Khánh Temple in Vĩnh Phúc province, Vietnam. It was built under the Trần dynasty and said to consist of 15 stories in its original form.
Landing Zone English (also known as English Airfield, LZ Dog, LZ English or simply Bong Son) is a former U.S. Army and Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) base in Bồng Sơn, Bình Định Province, Vietnam.
By June 3, 1965, the VC virtually controlled five districts in northern Quảng Ngãi Province (Bình Sơn, Sơn Tịnh, Nghĩa Hành, Tư Nghĩa and Mộ Đức), home to 10,000 civilians. [ 27 ] Even though the fighting at Ba Gia was minor in scale, it convinced President Lyndon B. Johnson that South Vietnam's armed forces could not deal with ...
It later became one of three administrative centres in what is now Bình Định Province. Bồng Sơn was the site of an uprising against French colonialism in 1945, involving around 8000 people and led by Trịnh Hồng Kỳ. [4] As much of Bình Định Province, it was the site of severe fighting during the Vietnam War and a major battle in ...
Bình Sơn (listen ⓘ) is a commune (xã) and village in Luc Nam District, Bắc Giang Province, in northeastern Vietnam. [1] References
Quảng Ngãi (listen ⓘ) is a city in central Vietnam. It serves as the capital city of Quảng Ngãi Province. Quảng Ngãi City borders Tư Nghĩa District to the South and West, Sơn Tịnh District to the Northwest and Bình Sơn District to the North. It has an area of 160,15 km² and population of 278.496 inhabitants.