Diêu Trì is a town of
Tuy Phước District, in
Bình Định Province
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, Vietnam. It had a population of 11,671 in 1999.
Diêu Trì is most noted for the
Diêu Trì Railway Station on the
North–South Railway
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(Reunification Express) which connects by a
branch line to
Quy Nhơn Railway Station and the city of
Quy Nhơn
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, population of 250,000 people, ten kilometres to the east. The history of the town is closely linked with the building of
railways in Vietnam, and during the French colonial period the rail yards were a target for the leafleting by independence activists.
[David Willson Del Testa ''Paint the trains red: labor, nationalism, and the railroads in French Colonial Indochina, 1898-1945.'' 2001 Page 300 "In a last, desperate move to keep it going, Nguyễn Văn Nguyên, a lutteur, was sent by car to distribute leaflets at the rail yards at Diêu Trì, Tourane, and eventually to Hanoi. After fifty hours of travel, Nguyễn had to go underground in Thanh Hóa."]
References
{{Binh Dinh Province
Populated places in Bình Định province
Townships in Vietnam