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The most densely settled Vietnamese areas in Northern Virginia were along Wilson Boulevard and Columbia Pike, extending west towards Falls Church and Annandale. Development in Clarendon Nam-Viet Restaurant, seen in December 2021. Until the mid-1900s, Clarendon was Arlington County's premier downtown shopping area and a bustling streetcar suburb.
The building is a designated Arlington County landmark and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Nam-Viet, the first Vietnamese restaurant to open in Clarendon, seen in December 2021. By early 1975, two Vietnamese grocery stores had been opened in Clarendon, and in ensuing years Clarendon came to be known as "Little Saigon ...
Vietnamese-Americans immigrated to the United States in different waves. The first wave of Vietnamese from just before or after the Fall of Saigon/the last day of the Vietnam War, April 30, 1975. They consisted of mostly educated, white collar public servants, senior military officers, and upper and middle class Vietnamese and their families.
Eden Center. / 38.87361°N 77.15389°W / 38.87361; -77.15389. Eden Center is a Vietnamese American strip mall located near the crossroads of Seven Corners in the City of Falls Church, Virginia. Eden Center is the largest Vietnamese commercial center on the East Coast, [1] and the largest Asian mall on the east coast of North America.
Little Saigon ( Vietnamese: Sài Gòn nhỏ or Tiểu Sài Gòn) is a name given to ethnic enclaves of expatriate Vietnamese mainly in English-speaking countries. Alternate names include Little Vietnam and Little Hanoi (mainly in historically communist nations), depending on the enclave's political history. To avoid political undertones due to ...
Late 20th-century Vietnamese history casts a trancelike spell across Truong Minh Quy’s “Viet and Nam,” a thickly shadowed exploration – or should that be excavation? — of national trauma ...
Lao Veterans of America. The Lao Veterans of America, Inc., describes itself as a non-profit, non-partisan, non-governmental, veterans organization that represents Lao- and Hmong-American veterans who served in the U.S. clandestine war in the Kingdom of Laos during the Vietnam War as well as their refugee families in the United States. [1]
Vietnamese Martyrs (Vietnamese: Các Thánh Tử đạo Việt Nam; French: Martyrs du Viêt Nam), or in the current Roman Missal as Saint Andrew Dung-Lac and Companions (Vietnamese: Anrê Dũng-Lạc và các bạn tử đạo), also known as the Martyrs of Annam, Martyrs of Tonkin and Cochinchina, collectively Martyrs of Indochina, are saints on the General Roman Calendar who were canonized ...