• Cholon may refer to: Chợ Lớn, or Cholon, a quarter of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam Chợ Lớn province, a former province of South Vietnam Cholón District,...
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    Chợ Lớn (listen, Chinese: 堤岸), usually anglicized as "Cholon" in English sources, is a quarter of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. It lies on the west bank of...
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    27 April 1931, a new région called Saigon–Cholon consisting of Saigon and Cholon was formed; the name Cholon was dropped after South Vietnam gained independence...
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  • The extinct Hibito–Cholón or Cholónan languages form a proposed language family that links two languages of Peru, Hibito and Cholón. This family was believed...
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  • Cholón District is one of three districts of the province Marañón in Peru. (in Spanish) Instituto Nacional de Estadística e Informática. Banco de Información...
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    temple of the Chinese Goddess of Sea, Mazu on Nguyễn Trãi Street in the Cholon ("Chinatown") of District 5 in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Thiên Hậu is the...
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    The battle of Cholon and Phú Thọ Racetrack began during the early hours of 31 January 1968 and continued until 11 February 1968. The attacks by Vietcong...
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    Ngô Đình Nhu were not present, having escaped to a loyalist shelter in Cholon. The brothers kept in communication with the rebels through a direct link...
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  • Cholón (Cholona), also known as Seeptsá and Tsinganeses, is a language of Peru. It was spoken near Uchiza, from Tingo María to Valle in the Huallaga River...
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  • Colorado. He is the executive chef/owner of Denver's ChoLon Modern Asian Bistro. In its first year ChoLon was a semi-finalist for the James Beard Foundation...
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    oust the American-backed Premier, Ngô Đình Diệm. Lê Văn Viễn was born in Cholon in 1904 to a Chinese (Chaozhou) father and a Vietnamese mother. His father...
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    The ruins of a section of Saigon, in the Cholon neighborhood, following fierce fighting between ARVN forces and Viet Cong Main Force battalions...
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    original MACV Headquarters were colocated with MAAG at 606 Trần Hưng Đạo, Cholon. In May 1962 it moved to 137 Pasteur Street (10°46′58.25″N 106°41′35.94″E...
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    loyalists reached the home of Ma Tuyen in the Chinese business district of Cholon. Ma Tuyen was a Chinese merchant and friend who was reported to be Nhu's...
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    the battalion's mission was security and law enforcement in the Saigon/Cholon/Tan Son Nhut metropolitan area, South Vietnam. Specific security missions...
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  • was the son of Antony de Bascher (1909-1975), governor of the province of Cholon in Vietnam and an executive of Shell's insurance department on his return...
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    Uru-Chipaya, Zaparo, Arawak, Kandoshi, Muniche, Pukina, Pano, Barbakoa, Cholon-Hibito, Jaqi, Jivaro, and Kawapana language families due to contact. Quechua...
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    Vietnam The cities of Saigon and Cholon merged in 1931 to form a single city named Saigon-Cholon; in 1956, the name Cholon was dropped and the city became...
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    Qianliyan & Shunfeng'er List of Mazu temples around the world Thien Hau Temple (Cholon) Corfield (2013). Corfield, Justin (2013), "Quan Am Pagoda", A Historical...
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    with orders to refocus on political activity and agitation. The Saigon-Cholon Peace Committee, the first Việt Cộng front, was founded in 1954 to provide...
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    imprisonment. One of the gang leaders was Ba Dương, a kingpin in the Saigon–Cholon area. His lieutenants included Huỳnh Văn Trí (a.k.a. Mười Trí), Dương Văn...
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    singer from Hong Kong, nicknamed "the Temple Street Prince." Wan was born in Cholon, Saigon in 1949 to a Cantonese Vietnamese family and was trained as a Cantonese...
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    Pre-Proto-Barbacoan: Ecuadorian Andes Pre-Proto-Mochica: Daule River basin Pre-Proto-Cholon-Hibito: Upper Santiago and Upano basins Pre-Proto-Macro-Arawakan: Middle...
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    be considered one of Indochina's five major cities, among Hanoi, Saigon–Cholon, Haiphong, and Huế. In 1903, the colonial government authorised Société...
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    𢄂𡘯), the Chinese district of Saigon. The Cantonese (and original) name of Cholon is "Tai-Ngon" (堤岸), which means "embankment" (French: quais). The theory...
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    with orders to refocus on political activity and agitation. The Saigon-Cholon Peace Committee, the first Viet Cong front, was founded in 1954 to provide...
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    French Indochina as the transmissions expert for the battalion of Saigon-Cholon. Bokassa saw some combat during the First Indochina War before his tour...
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    Other lines will connect Bến Thành with Tham Luong in District 12, and with Cholon and Binh Tan District. "Ben Thanh Market - Historical Symbol of Saigon"...
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    or clans in cities and towns where large populations prevail, including Cholon, Hội An and some towns in the Mekong Delta. The Minh Huong Chinese also...
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    dead. The Ngo brothers fled into Cholon, the Chinese district of Saigon that formed a city within the city as Cholon was a vast, sprawling district of...
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