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Anarchy Of The 12 Warlords
The Anarchy of the 12 Warlords ( vi, Loạn 12 sứ quân, Chữ Nôm: 亂𨑮𠄩使君; Sino-Vietnamese: ''Thập nhị sứ quân chi loạn'', Chữ Hán: 十二使君之亂), also the Period of the 12 Warlords, was a period of chaos and civil war in the history of Vietnam, from 944 to 968 caused by the succession of the Ngô dynasty after the death of King Ngô Quyền. This period is also sometimes simply called the Twelve Warlords ( vi, Mười hai sứ quân, 𨑮𠄩使君). Four of the lords are verified to have traced their direct lineage from what is now China today. This period ended in 968 with the unification war of Vietnam by Đinh Bộ Lĩnh, who later established the Đinh dynasty. History In 939, Ngô Quyền became King of Tĩnh Hải quân (as Vietnam was called then) after defeating the Southern Han and declaring independence from centuries of Chinese rule. After Ngô Quyền's death in 944, his brother-in-law Dương Tam Kha, who was to serve as regent to th ...
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Tĩnh Hải Quân
Tĩnh Hải quân or the Jinghai Military Command (Chinese: 靜海軍, pinyin: Jìnghǎi Jūn) (literally "Peaceful Sea Army"), also known as Annam (安南), was an administrative division of the Tang dynasty of China administered by Chinese governors, which then later became a quasi-independent regime ruled by successive local Vietnamese warlords and monarchs. It was centered around what is now northern Vietnam from 866 to 967 during the late Tang period and lasted until the late Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period when Đinh Bộ Lĩnh established the Đinh dynasty. History Chinese period Jinghai Circuit (Tĩnh Hải quân) was created in 866 by Gao Pian as a Tang ''fanzhen'' ("buffer town") in the former Annan Duhufu (Protectorate General to Pacify the South) after retaking it from Nanzhao, which had invaded and captured the area in 863. The area of the Command was sometimes referred to as "Circuit" (道 dao). In 875, the Huang Chao rebellion broke out in northern China. I ...
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Ninh Bình
Ninh Bình () is a small city in the Red River Delta of northern Vietnam. It is the capital of Ninh Bình Province. Geography Ninh Bình Province is located in northern Vietnam comprising 48 square kilometres; the 2007 city population was 130,517. It takes 2 hours by coach to travel from Hanoi to Ninh Bình. History During the Nguyen dynasty, in August 1884 in the Tonkin campaign, the allegiance of Ninh Bình was of considerable importance to the French, as artillery mounted in its lofty citadel controlled river traffic to the Gulf of Tonkin. Although the Vietnamese authorities in Ninh Bình made no attempt to hinder the passage of an expedition launched by Henri Rivière (naval officer), Henri Rivière in March 1883 Capture of Nam Định (1883), to capture Nam Định, they were known to be hostile towards the French. In November 1883, on the eve of the Sơn Tây campaign, the French occupied the citadel of Ninh Bình without resistance and installed a garrison. Climate Ninh ...
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Hoa Lư
Hoa Lư was the capital of Vietnam from 968 to 1009. It lies in Trường Yên Thượng village, Hoa Lư District, Ninh Bình Province. The area is one of ricefields broken by limestone mountains, and is approximately 90 km south of Hanoi. Together with Phát Diệm Cathedral, Tam Cốc-Bích Động, Bái Đính Temple, Tràng An, and Cúc Phương, Hoa Lư is a tourist destinations in Ninh Bình Province. In the late 10th century, Hoa Lư was the capital as well as the economic, political and cultural center of Đại Cồ Việt, an independent Vietnamese polity founded in 968 A.D. by the local warlord Đinh Bộ Lĩnh (posthumously known as Đinh Tiên Hoàng, or "First Dinh Emperor"), following years of civil war and a violent secessionist movement against China's Southern Han dynasty. Hoa Lư was the native land of the first two imperial dynasties of Vietnam: the Đinh founded by Đinh Tiên Hoàng, and the Early Lê founded by Lê Đại Hành. Following the ...
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Đinh Tiên Hoàng
Dinh is a Vietnamese surname. In Vietnam, the surname is spelled Đinh or Đình but ''Đình'' is very rare in Vietnamese. Notable people * Andy Dinh, Team SoloMid owner, player * Dan Dinh, ''League of Legends '' player, brother of Andy Dinh * Đinh Xuân Lưu, Vietnamese Ambassador to Poland and Israel * Viet D. Dinh Viet D. Dinh ( vi, Đinh Đồng Phụng Việt; born February 22, 1968) is a lawyer and a legal scholar who is Chief Legal and Policy Officer of Fox Corporation and who served as an Assistant Attorney General of the United States from 2001 to 2 ... (born 1968), lawyer, former US Assistant Attorney General, and chief architect of the Patriot Act See also * Ding (surname) See also * Đinh dynasty {{DEFAULTSORT:Dinh Vietnamese-language surnames ...
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Map Of 12 Warlords In Anarchy Of The 12 Warlords
A map is a symbolic depiction emphasizing relationships between elements of some space, such as objects, regions, or themes. Many maps are static, fixed to paper or some other durable medium, while others are dynamic or interactive. Although most commonly used to depict geography, maps may represent any space, real or fictional, without regard to context or scale, such as in brain mapping, DNA mapping, or computer network topology mapping. The space being mapped may be two dimensional, such as the surface of the earth, three dimensional, such as the interior of the earth, or even more abstract spaces of any dimension, such as arise in modeling phenomena having many independent variables. Although the earliest maps known are of the heavens, geographic maps of territory have a very long tradition and exist from ancient times. The word "map" comes from the , wherein ''mappa'' meant 'napkin' or 'cloth' and ''mundi'' 'the world'. Thus, "map" became a shortened term referring to ...
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Trần Lãm
Trần Lãm ( vi-hantu, 陳覽, died 967) was a warlord of Vietnam during the Period of the 12 Warlords. Lãm was an ethnic Việt from Guangdong. He held Bố Hải Khấu, Kỳ Bố, Thái Bình Province Cài () is a Chinese-language surname that derives from the name of the ancient Cai state. In 2019 it was the 38th most common surname in China, but the 9th most common in Taiwan (as of 2018), where it is usually romanized as "Tsai" (based on ..., and titled himself Trần Minh Công (陳明公).do Tiến sĩ Lê Tung viết ngày 2 tháng 10 niên hiệu Hồng Đức thứ 18 (1487) He was the strongest warlord of Vietnam in that time. Đinh Bộ Lĩnh swore allegiance to him, and became adoptive son of him. His territory and troops was annexed by Đinh Bộ Lĩnh after his death. References 967 deaths Year of birth unknown 10th-century Vietnamese people People from Thái Bình province Vietnamese people of Chinese descent Anarchy of the 12 Warlords ...
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Ngô Xương Xí
Ngô Xương Xí ( vi-hantu, 吳昌熾, ?–968) was a Ngô dynasty crown prince and warlord of Vietnam during the Period of the 12 Warlords. Xí was a son of King Ngô Xương Ngập, a co-ruler of Ngô dynasty. In 965, when his uncle, King Ngô Xương Văn was killed in the battle, Crown Prince Ngô Xương Xí became the head of the Ngô royal household. During the rise of a powerful warlord Đinh Bộ Lĩnh (丁部領), Ngô Xương Xí could not withstand direct military confrontations with the contending warlord Đinh Bộ Lĩnh's forces and had to retreat to Bình Kiều (mordern Triệu Sơn District, Thanh Hóa Province), and there he was styled as Ngô Sứ Quân (吳使君) or "Warlord Ngô".''Việt Nam sử lược'', Quyển 1, Phần 3, Chương 1''Đại Việt sử ký toàn thư'', Peripheral Records vol. 5 Xí was defeated by Đinh Bộ Lĩnh in 968. He was also the elder brother of Ngô Khuông Việt, who later became an influential Buddhist monk a ...
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Ngô Xưong Xí
Ngô () is a Vietnamese surname, related to the Chinese surnames Ng, Ngo and Wu. Notable people with the surname Ngô * Ngô Văn Dụ Chairman of the Central Commission for Inspection of the Communist Party of Vietnam from 2011 to 2016 *Ngô Xuân Lịch Vietnam's Minister of National Defence and Chief of the General Department of Politics of Vietnam * Ngô Thị Thanh Hằng Vietnamese politician * Ngô Thị Doãn Thanh Chairman of the Hanoi People's Council from 2006 to 2015 *Ngô Quang Trưởng, Lieutenant General Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) *Ngô Quyền, Emperor of Vietnam in 938, noted for expelling the Chinese *Ngô Bảo Châu, mathematician; Fields Medal winner (2010) *Ngô Sĩ Liên, historian of the Lê dynasty *Ngô Trọng Anh, Vietnamese civil servant *Ngô Thanh Vân, Vietnamese actress *Ngô Thế Linh, Army Colonel of the Republic of Vietnam *Ngô Tự Lập, Vietnamese writer, poet, essayist, translator and songwriter *Ngô Viết Thụ, architect ...
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