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3 unusual facts about Đồng Tháp Mười


Đồng Tháp Mười

It is similar to a very large swampy floodplain stretching along the Bassac River from Châu Đốc to the foot of the Takeo Plateau.

Nguyễn Bình

Although not a communist, he was sent by Ho Chi Minh in 1945 to establish a resistance to French rule in Cochinchina where he established his base of operations in the Plain of Reeds near Saigon.

Võ Duy Dương

Võ Duy Dương (武維楊; 1827-1866), also Thiên Hộ Dương (千戶楊) was a Vietnamese warlord who after the submission of the Vietnamese government to the French in 1862 continued to fight against the French (1862-1866) in the wetlands of Đồng Tháp Mười, where he died of disease.



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