Dương Văn An (1514 – ?;

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: Tỉnh Phú, 楊文安) was a minister in the cabinet of the

Mạc dynasty The Mạc dynasty ( vi, Nhà Mạc / ''Mạc triều''; Hán Nôm: 茹莫 / 莫朝) (1527-1627), as known as House of Mạc ruled the whole of Đại Việt between 1527 and 1540 and the northern part of the country from 1540 until 1593, and ...

. He was born in 1514 in Tuy Lộc Village, Lộc Thủy Commune, Lệ Thủy district, Quảng Bình province. He was the author of a geography-history book about Ô province, ''Ô Châu cận lục'' ( chữ Hán: 烏州近錄 (literally: Recent records of Ô province)). Though Ô province was in fact from now Quảng Bình to Quảng Nam provinces, the book recorded the history and geography of today Quảng Bình,

Quảng Trị Quảng Trị () is a district-level town in Quảng Trị Province in the North Central Coast region of Vietnam. It is second of two municipalities in the province after the provincial capital Đông Hà. History The Sino-Vietnamese name Quả ...

and Thừa Thiên–Huế provinces.Dương Văn An
on Quảng Bình Province Official Website, , accessdate: 19 Feb 2008

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Duong, Van An People from Quảng Bình province 1514 births Vietnamese historians 16th-century Vietnamese people 16th-century historians Year of death unknown Date of birth unknown