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A silver Phi Long coin of 1 tiền issued under the Minh Mạng Emperor in 1833. The term tiền (chữ Hán: 錢) is used to refer to various currency-related concepts used in Vietnamese history. The name is a cognate with the Chinese qián (錢), a unit of weight called "mace" in English.
Originally, many thước of varying lengths were in use in Vietnam, each used for different purposes. According to Hoàng Phê (1988), [1] the traditional system of units had at least two thước of different lengths before 1890, [2] the thước ta (lit. "our ruler") or thước mộc ("wooden ruler"), equal to 0.425 metres (1 ft 4.7 in), and the thước đo vải ("ruler for measuring ...
The Vietnamese cash (chữ Hán: 文 錢 văn tiền; chữ Nôm: 銅 錢 đồng tiền; French: sapèque), [a] [b] also called the sapek or sapèque, [c] is a cast round coin with a square hole that was an official currency of Vietnam from the Đinh dynasty in 970 until the Nguyễn dynasty in 1945, and remained in circulation in North Vietnam until 1948.
[3] [4] It is issued by the State Bank of Vietnam. [5] The dong was also the currency of the predecessor states of North Vietnam and South Vietnam, having replaced the previously used French Indochinese piastre. [6] [7] Formerly, it was subdivided into 10 hao (hào), which were further subdivided into 10 xu, neither of which are now used due to ...
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).
A playing mat for Bầu cua cá cọp Gambling board with Vietnamese đồng notes used for gambling. Dice used in Bầu cua cá cọp.. Bầu cua cá cọp (lit. ' gourd crab fish tiger '; also Bầu cua tôm cá or Lắc bầu cua) is a Vietnamese gambling game using three dice.
In the 10th century, the area was the domain of the Tran clan, which rose in power to become the Trần Dynasty of Vietnam in the early 13th century. The town Thái Bình (Sino-Vietnamese: 太平) developed near the Keo Pagoda constructed in 1061.
During the Chinese occupation of Northern Vietnam many nationalist political groups such as the Việt Nam Quốc Dân Đảng (Việt Quốc) and the Việt Nam Cách mệnh Đồng minh Hội (Việt Cách) called upon Bảo Đại to lead the country again; he showed complete indifference to their proposals, and instead indulged in the ...