Yên Hòa

Yên Hòa ən˧˧:hwa̤ː˨˩is a ward of Hanoi, the capital city, in the Red River Delta region of Vietnam.

History

Its name Yên Hòa is originally a combination of seven localities that have many cultural traditions in urban Hanoi : Hòa Mục (or Nhân Hòa), Trung Hòa (or Trung Kính Thượng), Trung Kính (or Đàn Kính Chủ), Trung Yên (or Trung Kính Hạ), Yên Hòa, Yên Lãng, and especially Yên Quyết (or Bạch Liên Hoa).

The modern area of Yên Hòa Ward is two former administrative units with a very long history : Kẻ Cót Village (Hạ Yên Quyết Village) and Kẻ Giàn Village (Đàn Kính Chủ Village). Their remaining relics is an old communal hall called Trung Kính Hạ.

Middle Ages

According to ''Đồng Khánh địa dư chí lược'' (同慶地輿志略), around the late years of Gia Long, the Southwestern area of Hà Nội Citadel still belonged to Từ Liêm rural district, Quốc Oai prefecture, Sơn Tây garrisons of the Northern Citadel region

By 1831, Emperor Minh Mệnh issued an Order to eliminate the Ming-style "garrisons" regime to switch to the Qing-style "province" regime. Since then, Từ Liêm district has been part of Hoài Đức prefecture of Hà Nội province. In particular, the area of this district-level administrative unit consisted of 5 villages from its North to South and West to East side : Yên Quyết (Kẻ Cót), Dịch Vọng (Kẻ Vòng), Mễ Trì (Kẻ Mẩy), Yên Lãng (Kẻ Láng), Đàn Kính Chủ (Kẻ Giàn). These administrative systems and names have remained the same until the end of the 1950s by many different governments.

XX century

In 1961, in the process of expanding the area of urban Hà Nội in the Southwest direction, most of those villages were merged into two urban districts V and VI, while Mễ Trì village became the commune of Từ Liêm rural district. Four merged villages have been raised to townships. Because at that time in the North Vietnam, there was no ward-level yet.

On November 22, 1996, the Government of Vietnam issued Decree 74-CP to establish Cầu Giấy urban district on the basis of the entire area and population of 4 former townships Cầu Giấy, Mai Dịch, Nghĩa Đô, Nghĩa Tân, and 3 communes Dịch Vọng, Trung Hòa, Yên Hòa, belonging to Từ Liêm district. In particular, Cầu Giấy township was renamed to Quan Hoa ward. When newly established, the district had 7 wards : Dịch Vọng, Mai Dịch, Nghĩa Đô, Nghĩa Tân, Quan Hoa, Trung Hòa, and Yên Hòa.

XXI century

On April 19, 2025, to realize the '' Project to Arrange and Merge Administrative Units'' by the Government of Vietnam, the Hà Nội People's Committee quickly approved a Resolution on the plan of re-arranging commune+ward-level administrative units in the whole city.

According to the political document published for the press in the same day, Cầu Giấy Urban District was officially dissolved. Its entire area and population have been divided into three new wards Cầu Giấy 1 ( Cầu Giấy), Cầu Giấy 2 (Nghĩa Đô), and Cầu Giấy 3 (Yên Hòa). From that reality, Yên Hòa Ward (安和坊, phường Yên Hòa) has been established based on the merging of two former wards Trung Hòa and Yên Hòa. This has helped to double the size of the new administrative unit. Yên Hòa Ward is under the direct management of the Hà Nội City People's Committee.

Geography

Topography

Yên Hòa Ward situates roughly to the Southwest area of urban Hanoi. According to the content of the planning map, what was given to households on 17 April 2025, the administrative unit called Cầu Giấy 3 or New Yên Hòa Ward is located in the South of Cầu Giấy Ward through Dương Đình Nghệ Street and the North of Thanh Xuân Ward through Lê Văn Lương Avenue. Its West is Từ Liêm Ward and a little of Đại Mỗ Ward, while its East is adjacent to the Tô Lịch River and connected to the other side of the Trung Hòa Bridge by Láng Ward.

Before 2013, 2/3 of the area of Yên Hòa Ward was still vegetable fields. However, since the Trần Duy Hưng Boulevard has been completed and put into commercial exploitation, it has divided this ward into two little zones in Hanoi.

Climate

Like Hanoi, under the Köppen climate classification Yên Hòa Ward has a humid subtropical climate (Cfa). There is significant air pollution in Yên Hòa like other wards of Hanoi. A 2022 study from the Vietnam National University determined that most of the air pollution in here is caused by particulates. Nitrogen oxides, carbon monoxide and sulfur dioxide in the air are also present in significant amount.

Culture

Yên Hòa Ward has long been dubbed one of the three core areas of tradition in Hà Nội the capital. This area still retains many historical sites, and is also known as the birthplace of many notable persons and developed professions.Người dân phường Yên Hòa nô nức dâng hương cầu an trong hội làng đầu năm
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See also

* Cầu Giấy
* Láng
*Nghĩa Đô
* Từ Liêm

Notes and references

Notes

References

Further reading

Bibliography

*George Coedes. ''The Making of South East Asia'', 2nd ed. University of California Press, 1983.
*Trần Ngọc Thêm. ''Cơ sở văn hóa Việt Nam'' (The Foundation of Vietnamese Culture), 504 pages. Publishing by Nhà xuất bản Đại học Tổng hợp TPHCM. Saigon, Vietnam, 1995.
* Trần Quốc Vượng, Tô Ngọc Thanh, Nguyễn Chí Bền, Lâm Mỹ Dung, Trần Thúy Anh.
Cơ sở văn hóa Việt Nam
' (The Basis of Vietnamese Culture), 292 pages. Re-publishing by Nhà xuất bản Giáo Dục Việt Nam & Quảng Nam Printing Co-Ltd. Hanoi, Vietnam, 2006.
*Li Tana (2011). ''Jiaozhi (Giao Chỉ) in the Han period Tongking Gulf''. In Cooke, Nola ; Li Tana ; Anderson, James A. (eds.). The Tongking Gulf Through History. University of Pennsylvania Press. pp. 39–44. ISBN 9780812205022.
*''Tập bản đồ hành chính Việt Nam'' (Vietnamese Administrative Maps), Nhà xuất bản Tài nguyên – Môi trường và Bản đồ Việt Nam, Hà Nội, 2013.
*Li Tana,
Towards an environmental history of the Eastern Red River Delta, Vietnam, c.900–1400
', Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, 2014.
*Samuel Baron, Christoforo Borri, Olga Dror, Keith W. Taylor (2018). ''Views of Seventeenth-Century Vietnam : Christoforo Borri on Cochinchina and Samuel Baron on Tonkin''. Cornell University Press. ISBN 978-1-501-72090-1.
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External links

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