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Nguyễn Đình Chiểu was born in the southern province of Gia Định, the location of modern Saigon. He was of gentry parentage; his father was a native of Thừa Thiên–Huế, near Huế; but, during his service to the imperial government of Emperor Gia Long, he was posted south to serve under Lê Văn Duyệt, the governor of the south.
Thánh Gióng ( chữ Nôm: 聖揀), [ 1] also known as Phù Đổng Thiên Vương ( chữ Hán: 扶董天王, Heavenly Prince of Phù Đổng ), Sóc Thiên Vương ( chữ Hán: 朔天王), Ông Gióng (翁揀, sir Gióng) [ 2][ 3] and Xung Thiên Thần Vương (冲天神王, Divine Prince of Heaven) is a mythical folk hero of Vietnam's ...
The Legend of Mai An Tiêm ( Vietnamese: Truyền thuyết Mai An Tiêm) or the Origin Tale of Watermelons ( Vietnamese: Sự tích quả dưa hấu) is a Vietnamese folktale and myth, first told in Lĩnh Nam chích quái. It narrates the life of Mai An Tiêm, a culture hero living in the Hùng king 's era and his discovery of watermelons for ...
Nguyễn Văn Thiệu ( Vietnamese pronunciation: [ŋʷǐənˀ vān tʰîəwˀ] ⓘ; 5 April 1923 – 29 September 2001) was a South Vietnamese military officer and politician who was the president of South Vietnam from 1967 to 1975. [ 2][ 3] He was a general in the Republic of Vietnam Armed Forces (RVNAF), became head of a military junta in ...
Tôn Thất Thiện. Tôn Thất Thiện (1924–2014) was a South Vietnamese nationalist of the post-World War II generation who had the rare distinction of serving and watching at close quarters the two historic leaders of post-World War II Vietnam: presidents Ho Chi Minh in the Viet Minh coalition in 1945–46, and Ngô Đình Diệm 1954 ...
District 10 ( Vietnamese: Quận 10) is an urban district ( quận) of Ho Chi Minh City, the largest city in Vietnam . As of 2017, the district had a population of 239,053 and an area of 5.7181 km 2, occupying 0.24% of the city's total land area. [1] It is divided into 15 small subsets which are called wards (phường), numbered from Ward 1 to ...
Thống Nhất Stadium ( lit. Unification Stadium) ( Vietnamese: Sân vận động Thống Nhất ), formerly Cộng Hoà Stadium (Vietnamese: Sân vận động Cộng Hoà) is a multi-purpose stadium in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. [ 2] It is located at 138 Đào Duy Từ Street, Ward 6, District 10. It is currently used mostly for football ...
Vietnam, [ e][ f] officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, [ g] is a country at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of about 331,000 square kilometres (128,000 sq mi) and a population of over 100 million, making it the world's fifteenth-most populous country.