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The governor of Gia Dinh Thanh at that time was Le Van Duyet, he immediately sent Huynh Cong Ly, then sent more Nguyen Van Tri and Nguyen Van Thoai to defeat it. Sai Ke was killed in battle. In 1821, he held the position of Marshal of the Protectorate of Cambodia, concurrently the keeper of Chau Doc fortress and the governor of Ha Tien.
Traditionally, the family traces themselves to Nguyễn Bặc (924–979), a duke of the Đinh dynasty from Gia Viễn, Ninh Bình. Princes and male descendants of Gia Long are called Hoàng Thân, while male lineal descendants of previous Nguyen lords are named Tôn Thất. Grandsons of the emperor were Hoàng tôn.
The Citadel of Saigon (Vietnamese: Thành Sài Gòn [tʰâːn ʂâj ɣɔ̂n]) also known as the Citadel of Gia Định (Vietnamese: Thành Gia Định; Chữ Hán: 嘉定城 [tʰâːn ʒaː dîˀn]) was a late 18th-century fortress that stood in Saigon (also known in the 19th century as Gia Định, now Ho Chi Minh City), Vietnam from its construction in 1790 until its destruction in February ...
[72] [73] In 1812, Gia Long issued the Gia Long Code, which was instituted based on the Ch'ing Code of China, replaced the previous Thánh Tông's 1480 Code. [ 74 ] [ 75 ] [ 69 ] In 1811, a coup d'état broke out in the Kingdom of Cambodia , a Vietnamese tributary state, forcing the pro-Vietnamese King Ang Chan II to seek support from Vietnam.
The provinces of Vietnam are subdivided into second-level administrative units, namely districts (Vietnamese: huyện), provincial cities (thành phố trực thuộc tỉnh), and district-level towns (thị xã).
The Lê dynasty, also known in historiography as the Later Lê dynasty (Vietnamese: "Nhà Hậu Lê" or "Triều Hậu Lê", chữ Hán: 朝後黎, chữ Nôm: 茹後黎 [b]), officially Đại Việt (Vietnamese: Đại Việt; Chữ Hán: 大越), was the longest-ruling Vietnamese dynasty, having ruled from 1428 to 1789, with an interregnum between 1527 and 1533.
Gia Long promulgated a new legal code to replace the system that had existed since the Hong Duc era of Lê Thánh Tông in the 15th century. [119] Work started in 1811 under a group of scholars led by Nguyễn Văn Thành, and in 1815, the Bộ luật Gia Long (Gia Long Code) was issued. [119]
Tự Đức (Hanoi: [tɨ˧˨ ɗɨk̚˧˦], chữ Hán: 嗣 德, lit. ' inheritance of virtues ', 22 September 1829 – 19 July 1883) (personal name: Nguyễn Phúc Hồng Nhậm, also Nguyễn Phúc Thì) was the fourth and last pre-colonial emperor of the Nguyễn dynasty of Vietnam; he ruled from 1847 to 1883.