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Friendship Pass ( traditional Chinese: 友誼關; simplified Chinese: 友谊关; Vietnamese: Hữu Nghị Quan ), also commonly known by its older name Ải Nam Quan ( traditional Chinese: 隘南關; simplified Chinese: 隘南关 ), is a pass near the China-Vietnam border, between China's Guangxi and Vietnam 's Lạng Sơn Province. The pass ...
North Central Coast. Bắc Trung Bộ (literally North Central Region, and often translated as North Central Coast) is one of the geographic regions of Vietnam. It consists of six provinces in northern part of Central Vietnam: Thanh Hóa, Nghệ An, Hà Tĩnh, Quảng Bình, Quảng Trị, Thừa Thiên–Huế. The last two provinces were the ...
Later on 4 August 1954 the government of the State of Vietnam enacted Ordinance No. 21 which renamed the regions to Bắc Phần (北分), Trung Phần (中分), and Nam Nhần (南分). On 24 October 1956 the South Vietnamese president Ngô Đình Diệm officially abolished the three region system as the regions were divided into smaller ...
2,280 killed. 2,091 missing. 8,564 wounded. 38 tanks and APCs, 32 howitzers, 10 aircraft and 20 helicopters destroyed [6] : 187. The Battle of An Lộc was a major battle of the Vietnam War that lasted for 66 days and culminated in a tactical victory for South Vietnam. The struggle for An Lộc in 1972 was an important battle of the war, as ...
Battle of Nam Bac. The Battle of Nam Bac was one of the major engagements of the Laotian Civil War. Despite misgivings about their potential performance the Royal Lao Army moved in to occupy the Nam Bac Valley in August 1966; the position would block a traditional Vietnamese invasion route that led to the Lao royal capitol, Luang Prabang . The ...
North Central Coast (Bắc Trung Bộ) Hà Tĩnh Nghệ An Quảng Bình Quảng Trị Thanh Hóa Thừa Thiên–Huế. 51,242.75 11,190,830 218.39 contains the coastal provinces in the northern half of Vietnam's narrow central part. They all stretch from the coast in the east to Laos in the west. South Central Coast (Duyên hải Nam Trung Bộ)
The Trưng sisters ( Vietnamese: Hai Bà Trưng, 𠄩婆徵, literally "Two Ladies [named] Trưng", c. 14 – c. 43) were Luoyue military leaders who ruled for three years after commanding a rebellion of Luoyue tribes and other tribes in AD 40 against the first Chinese domination of Vietnam. They are regarded as national heroines of Vietnam.
The gateway of Láng Temple is characterized by a four Trụ biểu structure with a curved roof, giving the temple's Tam quan a unique and unique shape in the traditional architecture of Vietnam. Some popular variations. Variations of the Tam quan are found in some pagodas built into five aisles such as in the case of Sét temple, Hanoi.