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Vĩnh Tế Canal
The Vĩnh Tế Canal (, km, ព្រែកជីក ''or'' ) is an canal in southern Vietnam, designed to give the territory of Châu Đốc a direct access to the Hà Tiên sea gate, Gulf of Siam. Background Construction of the Vĩnh Tế Canal began in 1819, during the Nguyễn dynasty, a period that saw significant expansion and consolidation of the Vietnamese state. In particular, the Khmer regions of Siem Reap, Battambang, the Cardamom Mountain, the southern coast, and Hà Tiên were sites of contestation for both Siamese and Vietnamese rule. After the construction of Thoại Hà Canal, Emperor Gia Long of Nguyễn dynasty ordered the mandarin Nguyễn Văn Thoại to dig a new canal along the Cambodian–Vietnamese border. The emperor's edict said: "this canal-digging project is tough, but its role in urnational security and national defense is not small, we should accept the hardship so that our descendants would have the benefit". Alongside other canals con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kinh Vĩnh Tế
The Vietnamese people ( vi, người Việt, lit=Viet people) or Kinh people ( vi, người Kinh) are a Southeast Asian ethnic group native to modern-day Northern Vietnam and Southern China (Jing Islands, Dongxing, Guangxi). The native language is Vietnamese, the most widely spoken Austroasiatic language. Vietnamese Kinh people account for just over 85.32% of the population of Vietnam in the 2019 census, and are officially known as Kinh people () to distinguish them from the other minority groups residing in the country such as the Hmong, Cham, or Mường. The Vietnamese are one of the four main groups of Vietic speakers in Vietnam, the others being the Mường, Thổ, and Chứt people. They are related to the Gin people, a Vietnamese ethnic group in China. Terminology According to Churchman (2010), all endonyms and exonyms referring to the Vietnamese such as ''Viet'' (related to ancient Chinese geographical imagination), ''Kinh'' (related to medieval administrative d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
