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    The Mường Thanh Valley is a valley located in the Điện Biên Province of Northwestern Vietnam. The valley is approximately 20 km long by 5 km wide. A heart-shaped...
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    The Mường (Mường language: ngài Mõl (Mường Bi dialect), ngài Mường; Vietnamese: người Mường) are an ethnic group native to northern Vietnam. The Mường is...
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    from Mường Ôm and Mường Ai occupied Mường Lò in Nghĩa Lộ and Mường Thanh in Điện Biên. They eventually gained control of the whole area between Mường Lò...
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  • Muang Thaeng or Mường Thèn is a legendary Tai locality believed to be associated with modern-day Mường Thanh Valley in Điện Biên province of Vietnam....
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    the city was formerly called Muang Thaeng. Điện Biên Phủ lies in Mường Thanh Valley, a 20 km (12 mi)) long and 6 km (3.7 mi) wide basin sometimes described...
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    1953. Five French battalions parachuted into Điện Biên Phủ in the Mường Thanh Valley, a 20-km-long, 6-km-wide basin surrounded by hills. Navarre hoped...
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    Henri Navarre set up a defensive complex at Ðiện Biên Phủ in the Mường Thanh Valley, disrupting Việt Minh supply lines passing through Laos. He surmised...
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    are the White Tai, Thái Đỏ ("Red Tai"), Tày Mười, Tày Thanh (Man Thanh), Hàng Tổng (Tày Mường), Pu Thay, Thổ Đà Bắc. The Tai originated from southern...
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    linguist Jean Przyluski found that Mường is more closely related to Vietnamese than other Mon–Khmer languages, and a Viet–Muong subgrouping was established,...
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    the terms Việt–Mường, Annamese–Muong, and Vietnamuong; the term Vietic was proposed by La Vaughn Hayes, who proposed to redefine Việt–Mường as referring...
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    Vietnamese or as the southernmost dialect of Mường. Some researchers who consider it more closely related to Mường find that those who connect it more closely...
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    Xépôn was most likely settled in the 1500s by settlers from the Muong Thanh Valley in Vietnam. During the period when France ruled Laos as a colony,...
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    rural communes of: Bản Hồ, Hoàng Liên, Liên Minh, Mường Bo, Mường Hoa, Ngũ Chỉ Sơn, Tả Phìn, Tả Van, Thanh Bình and Trung Chải. Sa Pa was a frontier and market...
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    Da Nang (redirect from Thanh pho Da Nang)
    the current location, being upgraded from a fortress (đồn) to a citadel (thành) in 1835. One of the first Europeans to visit Da Nang was Portuguese explorer...
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  • chiefdom (mueang, Vietnamese: mường), each consisting of several villages and ruled by a Chao lord. The Thái mainly settled in valleys alongside the course of...
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    the Anarchy of the 12 Warlords, until the beginning of the reign of Lý Thánh Tông (r. 1054–1072), the third emperor of the Lý dynasty. Đại Việt lasted...
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    Chaeng) Mường Chăn (Muaeng Chaen) Mường Than (Muaeng Thaen) Mường Quài (Muaeng Quaei, now Tuần Giáo District) Mường Thanh (Muaeng Thaeng) Mường Muổi (Muaeng...
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    1420, the competent Ming commander Li Bin [zh] led a Ming army to attack Mường Thôi, but was defeated. The Lam Sơn partisans later gained control of the...
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    evidence to suggest his family was Mường in origin. There has also been hypotheses suggesting that Lê Lợi was a Mường military leader. However, recent genealogical...
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    was established from the ancient villages of Xương Huân, Phương Câu, Vạn Thạnh, Phương Sài, and Phước Hải. During French Indochina, Nha Trang was seen...
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    (Bouyei) - Bát Xát District, Mường Khương District, Bảo Yên District Tibeto-Burman languages Phula - Bát Xát District, Mường Khương District, Bắc Hà District...
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    village Đông Sơn, a village in Thanh Hóa, Vietnam) was a Bronze Age culture in ancient Vietnam centred at the Red River Valley of northern Vietnam from 1000...
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    ethnic majority), as well as other groups such as the Dao, Hoa, Hmong, Mường, Nùng, Tày and Thai. There are 23 ethnic groups, of which the Kinh account...
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    connected by Highway 2 and is 320 km away from Hanoi. The border crossing is at Thanh Thủy, 25 km from the provincial capital. It is one of the poorest provinces...
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    Long Thạnh Mỹ, Long Trường, Phú Hữu, Phước Bình, Phước Long A, Phước Long B, Tam Bình, Tam Phú, Tân Phú, Tăng Nhơn Phú A, Tăng Nhơn Phú B, Thạnh Mỹ Lợi...
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    a continuity of cultural development in the Red River Valley. In the Ma River Valley in Thanh Hóa Province, Vietnamese archaeologists also recognize...
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  • Thumbnail for Đại Việt–Lan Xang War (1479–1484)
    frontier of Đại Việt. By the time Lê Thánh Tông invaded, there would have been a vague sense of a maze of mountain valleys, with the major threat of Lan Xang...
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    was at the forefront of the resistance movement. People from the Thái, Mường, Mèo, Thổ, Nùng and another ethnic groups engaged the French in many battles...
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    2022-02-19. "Vietnam resort town concerned nuclear reactor could hit tourism". Thanh Nien Daily. 2014-03-31. Archived from the original on 2022-02-19. Retrieved...
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    depth of Proto-Vietic, that "[t]here is no evidence of Vietic, Proto-Việt-Mường or other Austroasiatic speakers living in and around Jiaozhi in the lower...
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