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  List of Vietnamese dynasties - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Ngo Dynasty (Vietnamese: Ngô, Chinese: 吴) (939-965): 4 rulers
The Dinh Dynasty (Vietnamese: Đinh, Chinese: 丁) (968-981): 2 rulers - Đinh Tiên Hoàng and Đinh Phế Đế.
The Nguyen Dynasty (Vietnamese: Nguyễn, Chinese: 阮) (1802-1945): 13 rulers
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_Vietnamese_dynasties   (566 words)

  
 History of Vietnam
Almost all Vietnamese dynasties are named after the ruler's family name, unlike the Chinese dynasties, whose names are an attribute chosen by the first emperors.
The Dinh Dynasty (VN:Đinh) (968-979): 1 ruler: Đinh Tiên Hoàng
The Tran Dynasty (VN:Trần) (1225-1440): 12 rulers The Ho Dynasty (1400-1407): 1 ruler The Ming Dynasty of Chinese Empire (1414-1427): ruled as the Buzheng Delegate-Officialdom of Cochin.
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 MSN Encarta - Search Results - NGO
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Ngo Dynasty (939-965), first independent Vietnamese dynasty founded by Ngo Quyen in 939 after about 1000 years of Chinese dominance in Vietnam.
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 VIET NAM - WHO'S WHO? © Chi D. Nguyen   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Ngo Quyen transfered the capital to Co Loa, the capital of Au Lac Kingdom, thus affirming the continuity of the traditions of the Lac Viet people.
Ngo Quyen spent 6 years of his reign fighting the continual revolts of the feudal lords.
In 1407, The Ming intervention provoked the fall of the Ho dynasty.
www.viettouch.com /whois/whois_main.htm   (1907 words)

  
 NGO QUYEN © 1997 Chi D. Nguyen   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
According to Vietnamese tradition, at birth Ngo Quyen was bathed in a strange luminosity and three fl moles were discovered on his back.
These were taken as signs of his future greatness, and, in anticipation of this, he was named Quyen, meaning "authority and power." He is said to have grown into an unusually fine-looking and stalwart young man with eyes like lightning and a measured step like that of a tiger.
Hung-ts'ao's plan was to ascend the Bach-dang River and to place his army in the heart of Giao before disembarking; the Bach-dang was the major riverine route into the Hong River plain from the north.
www.viettouch.com /hist/ngoquyen   (615 words)

  
 :: ATLAS VIET NAM ::   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Ngo Quyen vanquished the Chinese Army at a battle on the Bach Dang river ending 1.000 years of Chinese rule.
Dynasty the Chinese Khmers and Cham repeatedly attacked Vietnam but were repelled, most notably under the renowned strategist and tactician Ly Thuong Kiet (1030-1105) a military mandarin of royal blood.
Ho Dynasty.When the Tran Dynasty was overthrown in 1400 by Ho Quy Ly both the Tran loyalists and the Chams encouraged Chinese intervention.
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The various subgroups of the Pre-Dong Son culture was eventually unified in the northern areas of Central Vietnam and became the Dong Son culture.
The victory of the resistance against the Sung invasion led by Le Hoan in 981 was an eloquent proof of that statement.
Brothers Nguyen Nhac, Nguyen Lu, and Nguyen Hue led the Tay Son Revolution in 1771 and overthrew the Nguyen Dynasty.
www.datviet.com /vietnam/overview/history.html   (1667 words)

  
 Activist Intellectuals: Scholar-NGO interfaces in Thailand's civil society
NGOs and community members who are able to work with scholars on their topics of concern benefit from an expanded network that may include other scholars, university administrators, governmental officials, foreign researchers and funding agency representatives.
Similarly, NGOs and their members are likely exposed to new forms of knowledge and ideas that may push their efforts in new and unforeseen directions.
NGOs typically, though not universally, espouse sentiments and goals in the name of "the people" that are oftentimes contrary to those of the state.
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 Vets With A Mission - Origin of Vietnam Name
Ngo Quyen then decided to transfer the capital to Co Loa, the capital of the Au Lac Kingdom, thus affirming the continuity of the traditions of the Lac Viet people.
Ngo Quyen spent the six years of his reign fighting the continual revolts of the feudal lords.
The Ho Dynasty (1400-1428):The King's marriage to the aunt of aminister, Le Qui Ly, was to prove a fatal move for the Tran Dynasty.
www.vwam.com /vets/history/vietnam.html   (5980 words)

  
 Anterior Le Dynasty - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The people and peasants at that time are sick and tired of cruelty marked by his rule.
But the court, now under heavy influence of monks and Buddhism, among them monks Van Hanh, Khuong Viet and Ngo Chan Luu agreed to enthrone Ly Cong Uan as the new emperor.
As 1st emperor of the Ly dynasty, Ly Cong Uan will take the Thai To name, inaugurating a new era in Vietnam's history.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Anterior_Le_Dynasty   (670 words)

  
 VietNam tours - superb customer service
These are stories on HONG BANG dynasty, on offspring of dragon and fairy, bag of hundred eggs, eighteen kings of Hung Vuong dynasty, Son Tinh - Thuy Tinh's conflict, Thanh Giong's victory over An foreign aggressors, folk of betel and areca nuts, "banh chung banh day", watermelon...
Ngo Si Lien especially brought Hung Vuong era into official history of Viet Nam under the title of "Hong Bang Dynasty" in addenda chapter of his Dai Viet Su Ky Toan Thu (The Complete History of The Great Viet).
Ngo Quyen's death a few years later ushered in a period of civil strife, but in the early 11th century the first of the great Vietnamese dynasties was founded.
vietnamadventures.freeservers.com /VN-ADV2-History.html   (2493 words)

  
 Vietmedia: Vietnam Music Lyrics Culture Chat Midi Picture Image News History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Ngo Quyen is honored as Vietnam's greatest hero for restoring Vietnamese independence, which despite centuries of turbulence, has continued through today.
Ngo Quyen was born in 899 in Son Tay province.
By the time they reached the mouth, the tide was low enough to expose the sharp stakes, which assisted by gravity (dragging the ships down), broke through the hulls and impaled their ships.
www.vietmedia.com /history?L=ngoquyen.html   (497 words)

  
 NGOs and Terrorism
And this is where the NGO's come in and are the most credible in trying to find ways to work with us and with others to try to promote this dialogue with the civil society and government.
In our view, we do a lot to try to promote different kinds of civil dialogues with the militaries in some of these countries and in the judicial and the corrections and the police units to try to make sure that they know that there are constituencies out there they've got to talk to.
And the NGO's are very much involved in the advocacy of poverty alleviation and trying to protect people through their advocacy and their services.
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 BVOM.COM - Vietnamese History
Ngo Quyen (Ngo Vuong) (939 - 944) / Duong Tam Kha (Duong Binh Vuong) (944 - 950) / Ngo Xuong Van (Nam Tan Vuong) (950 - 965) and Ngo Xuong Ngap (Thien Sach Vuong) (951 - 965).
In 950, Ngo Xuong Van, the younger son of Ngo Quyen staged a coup against Duong Binh Vuong.
In one of the such battles in 965, Nam Tan Vuong was killed and Ngo Dynasty collapsed, the country was fractioned into 12 regions with 12 warlords ruled.
www.bvom.com /resource/vn_history.asp?pContent=Middle_Ages   (8478 words)

  
 Ngo Quyen --  Encyclopædia Britannica
Vietnamese liberator, known for his military tactics, who founded the first enduring Vietnamese dynasty and laid the foundation for an independent Vietnamese kingdom, which he called Nam Viet.
Ngo Quyen was prefect, under Chinese domination, of Giao Chau province in the valley of the Red River in what is now northern Vietnam.
Born in Hue, Vietnam, Ngo Dinh Diem was a strong nationalist and anti-Communist.
www.britannica.com /eb/article-9055647   (706 words)

  
 Buddhism in Vietnam   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The Lê dynasty succeeded that of the Đinh (980-1909), and continued to favour the Sangha, and also to listening to the advice of monks like Ngô-Chân-Lưu on political as well as religious matters.
The founder of the dynasty himself and his grandson, crowned in 1278, were held to be even more devout than the Emperors of the Lý dynasty.
Under the influence of the Minh dynasty a new impetus was given to Confucianism, which produced significant developments in philosophy and literature.
www.phatviet.com /pgvn/Buddhisminvietnam.htm   (6802 words)

  
 UatKimHuong's Xanga Site
Ngo Quyen was a son of a provincial officer, born in Son Tay province (nothern Vietnam).
Ngo Quyen took the tides of the river as advantage and devised a plan that proved his brilliance in naval strategies.
Ngo Quyen later declared himself emperor and established the Ngo dynasty, but he died shortly later at the age of 45.
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 dinhbolinh   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
He was born in Hoa Lu in 923, the illegitimate son of a Ngo Dynasty governor.
In 963 the last king of the Ngo Dynasty died and in the ensuing power struggle Dinh Bo Linh defeated his enemies and seized power.
Whereas the Chinese and their successors had generally exercised power from the Red River delta, Dinh Bo Linh moved his capitol to Hoa Lu and married a princess of the Ngo Dynasty to add legitimacy to his new dynasty.
www.geocities.com /imperialvietnam/dinhbolinh.html   (352 words)

  
 Tran Huu Nam's Homepage
Chinese dynasties ruled Vietnam for the next 1,000 years, inculcating it with Confucian ideas and political culture.
Like many previous dynasties, after its heyday the Tran started to decline and was succeeded by another family.
In 1788, the Le Dynasty was defeated by the Trinh Lord and had to flee to China to call for help.
www.sweb.cz /huunam.tran/history_en.htm   (3620 words)

  
 Vietnam Accommodation, Budget Hotels in Vietnam with great deals and 70% discounted   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
This dynasty was then overthrown by a neighboring king in 258 B.C. He established the new kingdom of Au Lac and built his capital at Phuc An, whose remains still exist today in the village of Co Loa, located west of Hanoi.
General Ngo Quyen successfully drove out the Chinese rulers and established the first of the "Great Dynasties" of Viet Nam that managed to remain largely independent of all foreign powers for the next 944 years.
During this dynasty, Buddhism was established as the dominant religion of Viet Nam.
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 Annam and its minor currency
NGO-QUYEN, an Annamese of the state of Ai-chao, was the founder of this family, which held the reins of power for eighteen years.
Their Governors refused to recognize the authority of the NGO Family, and each of them proclaimed himself king in his own district This state of things lasted for ten years.
This prince, whose conduct was extremely cruel and bad, soon afterwards proclaimed himself king and committed every kind of excess and crime, inventing new tortures and ruining the country in every way.
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 The Ly dynasty (from Vietnam) --  Encyclopædia Britannica
Ngo Quyen, the Vietnamese commander who had defeated the Chinese in 939, became the first head of the new state of Vietnam.
The Eastern Chin is considered one of the Six Dynasties (q.v.).
The era is also known as the period of the Ten Kingdoms because 10 regimes dominated separate regions of South China during the same period.
www.britannica.com /eb/article-52729   (871 words)

  
 South East Asia - Vietnam
It and its successors were strongly influenced by China, and spent a long period as part of China.
The Thuc Dynasty lasted for almost exactly the same period as the Chinese Ch'in.
The Ngo were unable to subdue a dozen local military chiefs and never secured recognition from China.
www.kessler-web.co.uk /History/KingListsFarEast/SouthEastVietNam.htm   (333 words)

  
 Hue : Imperial City
(1802 - 1819) of the Nguyen dynasty (1802 - 1945), chose as the base for his seat of power the northern bank of the "Perfumed River", where his family had lived for generations.
The relics of the Nguyen dynasty that are the most unususal and at the same time the most moving architectural creations are the imperial tombs in the enchanting hills around Hue.
All the tomb complexes consist of five elements: an extensive tiled courtyard with stone figures, saddled horses, elephants, municipal and military mandarins; a pavilion with a stele on which is engraved the life story of the dead person; a temple dedicated to the deceased; the pleasure pavilion for his concubines; and the tomb itself.
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 History of Vietnam   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The Ming Dynasty of Chinese Empire (1414-1427): ruled as the Buzheng Delegate-Officialdom of Cochin (交趾布政使司).
The Southern and Northern Dynasties (南北朝) (1527-1592, 1627-1672)
The Nguyen Dynasty (阮朝) (1802 - 1945): 13 rulers
www.portaljuice.com /history_of_vietnam.html   (1096 words)

  
 Chua Quoc Te Online
Near the end of the dynasty, in l396, Tran Thuân Tong applied a measure similar to one in China’s Ming Code: the Buddhist monks and the Taoist priests under the age of fifty had to be defrocked.
Later dynasties punished fleeing the country to follow foreigners with death, but in 1125, Mac Hien, administrator of the Quang Nguyen district, who fled to Sung China the previous year and was sent back, was only exiled to Nghe An and then Thanh Hoa, while his wife and children converted to serfs (12).
This measure, to be continued by the later Le dynasty, was to mark the beginning of the decline of religious freedom that accompanied the ascendancy of Confucianism.
www.chuaquocteonline.net /thuvien/vanhocpg/pgnhanquyen-tavantai.htm   (9024 words)

  
 Annam and its minor currency
The working of mines in Annam was first begun when the country was still a part of the Chinese Empire, and before the coming into power of the [] NGO Dynasty, but it has been impossible to obtain any reliable information relating to this period.
At the time of the occupation of Annam by the Chinese under the [] Ming Dynasty, in 1414, the Annamese were forced to work the gold and silver mines, without pay, and the metals extracted were sent to China as compensation for the war expenses.
Since that time the mines in Annam have been worked solely by Chinese, who have no doubt made very considerable profits therefrom, inasmuch as, quite recently, the Mandarin of Tunquin complained to the king that the country was being ruined by the exportation to China of all the gold and silver obtained from the mines.
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 Vietnam's History
With the Chinese defeat, Ngo Quyen established the Ngo Dynasty which didn't have a long existence.
A new dynasty, Ly dynasty, was founded in 1010 by Ly Thai To and continued on through to 1225.
The Ly dynasty ended peacefully in 1225 with the 8-year-old empress giving power to her new husband, a Tran.
www.asianinfo.org /asianinfo/vietnam/pro-history.htm   (1311 words)

  
 SignOn San Diego Special Reports -- Long recovery
The Ngo Dynasty restores Vietnam's independence after 1,000 years of Chinese rule.
Ngo Dinh Diem declares himself president of the Republic of South Vietnam.
Soldiers and officers quickly shed their weapons and uniforms, descendants of royalty burned photographs of their ancestors to erase connections to dynasties, and the rich buried their gold.
www.signonsandiego.com /news/reports/vietnam/20000430-0010-n111113.html   (2815 words)

  
 Untitled Document   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Ly Bi leads uprising against China's Liang Dynasty and
Ngo Quyen defeats a Chinese invading force at the first
the 17th parallel, and Ngo Dinh Diem appointed South
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 THE BIRTH OF A NATION
In 938 A.D., Ngo Quyen came to the throne after the great victory on Bach Dang River, defeating the Chinese invading army.
The Ngo dynasty left the first written records of administration system and other governing institutions of the nation.
The first Declaration of Independence of Vietnam may be the proclamation by the famous General Ly Thuong Kiet of the Later Ly dynasty (1010 A.D.) in poetic form.
www.vietquoc.com /na120200.htm   (843 words)

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