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Địa linh nhân kiệt / 地靈人傑 (The glory of a place leads greatness to the people there) Thuần khiết như hồn sen (Being pure like the spirit of the lotus) Nguyễn Văn Nhơn: Sarus crane, nelumbo nucifera, rice: Province as of February 1976. Tiền Giang: Dương Ngạn Địch: Tiền River, whale, boat: Province as of 24 ...
In June 1994, the area around Linh Đàm lake was selected to be one of the first new planning area of Vietnam, [Note 1] alongside Phú Mỹ Hưng in Ho Chi Minh City. Construction of the first stage started in 1997 under the name Khu nhà ở Bắc Linh Đàm (North Linh Đàm Residential Area) and finished in 2002 by the newly-formed HUD. The ...
Võ Thị Sáu (1933 – 23 January 1952) was a teenager who fought as a guerrilla during the First Indochina War participating in the resistance movement against the French colonists for Vietnam’s independence.
Between 1st and 7th centuries, Vung Tau was ruled by Funan, who were replaced by the Chenla Kingdom. Little is known of Vũng Tàu during the Funan and Chenla period. In 1295, Zhou Daguan (Chinese: 周達觀), a Yuan Chinese diplomat serving under Temur Khan, passed by Vũng Tàu on his official voyage to Angkor, Chenla.
Bảy Núi (Vietnamese: [ɓa᷉ːj nǔj], Chữ Nôm: 罷𡶀, seven mountains), also known by the Sino-Vietnamese version Thất Sơn (Vietnamese: [tʰə́k ʂəːŋ], Chữ Hán: 七山), is a range of small mountains located in the Tri Tôn and Tịnh Biên districts in Vietnam's An Giang Province, very close to the Cambodian border.
The mountains were very near the American Marble Mountain Air Facility during the Vietnam War.According to William Broyles Jr., the Marble Mountains contained a hospital for the Vietcong, probably within earshot of the American air field and Da Nang Beach (which bordered the air field on the side opposite the mountains).
The lên đồng ritual in process. Múa mồi (fire dance) in lên đồng ritual. Lên đồng (Vietnamese: [len ɗə̂wŋm], chữ Nôm: 𨖲童), votive dance, "to mount the medium", [1] or "going into trance" [2]) is a ritual practiced in Vietnamese folk religion, in which followers become spirit mediums for various kinds of spirits.
Ninh Thuận, previously named Phan Rang, [5] is a coastal province in the southernmost part of the South Central Coast region, the Central of Vietnam.It borders Khánh Hòa to the north, Bình Thuận to the south, Lâm Đồng to the west and the South China Sea to the east.