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Bà Rịa–Vũng Tàu (abbreviated BRVT) is a province of Vietnam. It is located on the coast of the country's Southeast region. It also includes the Côn Đảo islands, located some distance off Vietnam's southeastern coast. From 1954 to 1975, under South Vietnam, the province was called Phước Tuy.
Vũng Tàu (Hanoi accent: [vuŋm˧ˀ˥ taːw˨˩] ⓘ, Saigon accent: [vuŋm˧˩˧ taːw˨˩] ⓘ) is the largest city of Bà Rịa–Vũng Tàu province in southern Vietnam.It is the province's economic, financial and cultural centre, and a popular tourist hub in southern Vietnam.
Southern Vietnam during the Nguyễn dynasty before 1841. Cần Vột (), Vũng Thơm (Kampong Saom) and Svay Rieng (triangular wedge protruding into Vietnam known as the "Parrot's Beak") would later be ceded by French colonials to Cambodia.
Bà Rịa is located 90 km east southeast of Ho Chi Minh City and 20 km northwest to the centre of the petroleum and beach city of Vũng Tàu. Bà Rịa borders Châu Đức District and part of Phú Mỹ Town to the north, Vũng Tàu to the south, Long Điền District to the east, and Phú Mỹ to the west.
General Niem had had his 47th Regiment probing north into the Vĩnh Thạnh Valley since early February, and contacts were becoming frequent and sharp. Meanwhile, the PAVN increased pressure against Phù Mỹ and Phù Cát Districts along Highway 1 with attacks in the hamlets and by rocketing Phu Cat Air Base on 18 February for the first time ...
Phan Thanh Giản was one of the foremost mandarins of the Nguyễn court. He played a key role in negotiating the Treaty of Saigon with the French in 1862. [2] [3] The negotiations led to the formal cession of Vietnamese territory that the French Expeditionary Corps had occupied in 1861 (the first parts of the future colony of Cochinchina): the provinces of Già Dinh, Mỹ Tho, Biên Hòa ...
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The Việt Nam Quốc Dân Đảng (Vietnamese: [vìət naːm kwə́wk zən ɗa᷉ːŋ]; chữ Hán: 越南國民黨; lit. ' Vietnamese Nationalist Party ' or ' Vietnamese National Party '), abbreviated VNQDĐ or Việt Quốc, was a nationalist and democratic socialist political party that sought independence from French colonial rule in Vietnam during the early 20th century. [4]