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The Citadel have 10 gates include: Chính Bắc gate (more familiar as cửa Hậu (Back gate), located at the back of the Citadel). Tây-Bắc gate (more familiar as cửa An Hòa (An Hoa gate), named after the village here). Chánh Tây gate; Tây-Nam gate (more familiar as cửa Hữu (Right gate), at the right side of the Citadel).
The dougong (Chinese: 斗拱; pinyin: dǒugǒng; lit. cap [and] block; Vietnamese: Đấu củng) is an important part of Chinese architecture, is rarely or not found in Vietnamese architecture starting from the Lý dynasty where Vietnamese architecture began to develop and innovate away from Chinese traditional architecture.
A citadel is the most fortified area of a town or city. It may be a castle , fortress , or fortified center. The term is a diminutive of city , meaning "little city", because it is a smaller part of the city of which it is the defensive core.
A new Imperial Citadel, which followed the same three-sector plan as the Imperial Citadel at Thăng Long, was constructed there. Much of what was left of the Imperial Citadel of Thăng Long after the destructive war at the end of the 18th century was taken to serve the construction of the new citadel.
The city served as the Imperial Citadel and administrative capital for the Nguyễn dynasty, and later functioned as the administrative capital of the protectorate of Annam during the French Indochina period. Huế is today a popular tourist destination, thanks to its extensive UNESCO-designated complex of imperial palaces, tombs and temples.
The name "Cổ Loa" is Sino-Vietnamese reading of 古 螺 (< Middle Chinese kuo X-luɑ > Standard Chinese: gǔ luó), literally meaning "ancient spiral".According to Đại Việt Sử Ký Toàn Thư, the citadel is shaped like a snail, [5] reflecting of the citadel's multi-layered structure with concentric ramparts and moats.
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 ...
The citadel of Ninh Bình (1884) The name of Ninh Binh officially existed since 1822. [1] During the Nguyen dynasty, in August 1884 in the Tonkin campaign, the allegiance of Ninh Bình was of considerable importance to the French, as artillery mounted in its lofty citadel controlled river traffic to the Gulf of Tonkin.