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The Old Quarter (Vietnamese: Phố cổ Hà Nội) is the name commonly given to the historical civic urban core of Hanoi, Vietnam, located outside the Imperial Citadel of Thăng Long. This quarter used to be the residential, manufacturing and commercial center, where each street was specialized in one specific type of manufacturing or commerce.
The following is a timeline of the history of Hanoi, the capital city of Vietnam This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
This is a timeline of Vietnamese history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in Vietnam and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see History of Vietnam. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. Prehistory ...
Some notable buildings in Hoàn Kiếm's "French Quarter" are the Hanoi Opera House, the Sofitel Legend Metropole Hanoi hotel, the National Museum of Vietnamese History (formerly the École française d'Extrême-Orient), and the Tonkin Palace. Many of the French-styled buildings in the south of the districts are now used as foreign embassies ...
Vietnam's ethnic mosaic results from the peopling process in which various peoples came and settled the territory, leading to the modern state of Vietnam by many stages, often separated by thousands of years over a duration of tens of thousands of years. Vietnam's entire history, thus, is an embroidery of polyethnicity. [14]
Hanoi: 1945–1976: Vietnam, later North Vietnam: Democratic Republic of Vietnam: Presidential Palace: Hanoi: Saigon: 1945-1954: French Occupation: Indochinese Federation: Governor-General Palace: Ho Chi Minh City: 1946–1949: Cochinchina (under French Occupation) Autonomous Republic of Cochinchina: Gia Long Palace: 1949–1955: South Vietnam
Đồng Xuân Market (Vietnamese: Chợ Đồng Xuân; chữ Nôm: 𢄂 同 春) is a market in the center district Hoàn Kiếm of Hanoi, Vietnam.Originally built by the French administration in 1889, Đồng Xuân Market has been renovated several times with the latest being in 1994 after a fire that almost destroyed the market.
Vũ's plan was that when the French advances, the militia would fall back to the city's Old Quarter, where they would bog down the French with the aforementioned preparations, while the regular forces would attack Gia Lam Airport to prevent French forces from reinforcing by air. [2]: 128–130 Viet Minh artillery in Hanoi