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Country's official name
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At the
beginning of the Bronze Age, the Viet tribe
groups had settled down in the North and in the
north of Central Vietnam. There were about 15
groups of Lac Viet tribesmen living mainly in
the northern highland and delta and a dozen Au
Viet groups of tribesmen living in Viet Bac, the
northern region of old Vietnam.
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Prehistoric Era
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Prehistoric
Era of Vietnam include: Pre-Paleolithic Age
and Neolithic Age.
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Chinese domination period (1st century, BC - 10th
century, AD)
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In the 3rd century BC,
the Han people who lived in the
Yellow
River basin
unified
China,
merging the various ethnic groups who lived in
southern
China
to the south of the
Yangtze River
into a centralized empire. This feudal empire
soon spread southwards.
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Insurrections and the struggle for independence
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The grim resistance by the population against
Chinese imperialist domination, which persisted
century after century, time and again, broke out
in the form of armed insurrection.
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Ngo Dynasty (939 - 965)
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Ngo King (939-944)
Later Ngo King (950-965)
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Dinh Dynasty (968 - 980)
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Dinh Tien Hoang (968-979)
Dynastic title: Thai Binh (970-979)
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Pre-Le Dynasty (980-1009)
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Le Dai Hanh (980-1005)
Dynastic title:
Thien Phuc (980-988); Hung Thong (989-993); Ung
Thien (994-1005)
Le Trung Tong (1005)
Le Long Dinh (1005-1009)
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Ly Dynasty (1010-1225)
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Kings of Ly Dynasty:
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- Ly Thai To (1010-1028)
- Ly Thai Tong
(1028-1054)
- Ly Thanh Tong
(1054-1072)
- Ly Nhan Tong 1072-1127)
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- Ly Than Tong
(1128-1138)
- Ly Anh Tong (1138-1175)
- Ly Cao Tong (1176-1210)
- Ly Hue Tong
(1211-10/1224)
- Ly Chieu Hoang (1225)
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Tran Dynasty (1225-1400)
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Kings of Tran Dynasty:
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- Tran Thai Tong
(1225-1258)
- Tran Thanh Tong
(1258-1272)
- Tran Nhan Tong
(1279-1293)
- Tran Anh Tong
(1293-1314)
- Tran Anh Tong
(1314-1329)
- Tran Hien Tong
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- Tran Du Tong
(1314-1369)
- Tran Nghe Tong
(1370-1372)
- Tran Due Tong
(1372-1377)
- Tran Phe De (1377-1388)
- Tran Thuan Tong
(1388-1398)
- Tran Thieu De
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Ho Dynasty (1400-1407)
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The Ho
lasted for 7 years, from 1400 to 1407, with
two kings:
- Ho
Quy Ly (1400)
- Ho Han Thuong (1401 -
1407)
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Later Tran Dynasty (1407-1413)
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The oppressive occupation soon triggered
fierce resistance. As early as the end of
1407, many uprisings began to occur. A
descendant of the Tran Dynasty proclaimed
himself king in 1407, taking the name Gian
Dinh and setting up his headquarters in Nghe
An Province.
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Ming occupation and Lam Son insurrection
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As early as JuIy 1407, the Ming emperor had
incorporated Dai Viet into the Chinese
empire under the title of Giao Chi Province,
set up a central administration, and divided
the country into phu and chau,
trying to reach down to village level by
1419.
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Le So Dynasty (1428-1527)
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Towards the end of the 14th century, a great
crisis shook the country. The Ming court,
then reigning in
China,
took advantage of this to invade Dai Viet
and to impose a form of direct rule which
was to last for twenty years (1407-1427).
However, the invaders encountered stiff
resistance from the beginning, and national
independence was eventually wrested back in
1427 by Le Loi, the founder of the Le
Dynasty.
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Tay Son Dynasty
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Kings of Tay Son
Dynasty (1778-1802):
- Thai Duc (1778-1793)
- Quang Trung (Nguyen
Hue) (1789-1792)
-
Canh Thinh (1793 - 1802)
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Nguyen Dynasty
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Kings of Nguyen Dynasty (1802-1945):
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- Gia Long
(1802-1819)
- Minh Menh (1820-1840)
- Thieu Tri (1841-1847)
- Tu Duc (1848-1883)
- Duc Duc (1883, 3 days)
- Hiep Hoa (1883, 4 months).
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- Kien Phuc
(1883-1884)
- Ham Nghi (1884-1885)
- Dong Khanh (1886-1888)
- Thanh Thai (1889-1907)
- Duy Tan (1907-1916)
- Khai Dinh (1916-1925)
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French domination period (1857-1945)
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On
August 31, 1858,
a French naval squadron attacked Danang,
launching several episodes of a war of
colonial conquest waged by French
imperialism between 1858 and 1884 and
resulting in the total annexation of the
country.
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Independent Vietnam (since 1945)
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In the summer of
1945, popular discontent reached a climax
and revolutionary action involving both
political and armed struggle proliferated
throughout the country, from north to south,
in villages and cities, and among the ethnic
minorities in the mountainous regions.
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