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unusual facts about Lê Dynasty


Lê Dynasty

The best known of the early missionaries was Alexandre de Rhodes, a French Jesuit who was sent to Hanoi in 1627, where he quickly learned the language and began preaching in Vietnamese.


Declarations of independence of Vietnam

#Bình Ngô đại cáo (Great Proclamation upon the Pacification of the Wu) was written by Nguyễn Trãi to speak in the name of Bình Định vương Lê Lợi in the Đinh Mùi year (1427), announcing the pacification of the Ming army, regaining the national independence, establishing the Later Lê Dynasty.

Kim Bồng woodworking village

Kim Bồng was settled in the 15th century, supposedly by four soldiers from the army of Emperor Lê Lợi, who founded the Later Lê Dynasty.

Ryukyu Kingdom

Ryukyuan ships, often provided by China, traded at ports throughout the region, which included, among others, China, Đại Việt (Vietnam), Korea, Japan, Java, Malacca, Pattani, Palembang, Siam, and Sumatra.

Vietnamese encyclopedias

The first work which was considered as an encyclopedia of Vietnam is an 18th-century book "Vân đài loại ngữ" by Lê Quý Đôn, a Lê Dynasty Confucian scholar.

Vân đài loại ngữ (The Classified Discourse of the Library), an encyclopedic work compiled in 1773 by the Lê Dynasty Confucianist scholar Lê Quý Đôn.


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Lê Hoàn

When he died in 1005, the Lê Dynasty went into decline; five years later, in 1010, Lý Công Uẩn declared the Lý Dynasty and moved the capital from Hoa Lư to the area of modern Hanoi.