Huế

Hue
Hue; Thành phố Huế
	The Citadel o Hue
	Banner Official seal of Hue Seal
	Hue Location o Huế
	Coordinates: 16°28′00″N 107°34′45″E / 16.46667°N 107.57917°E
Kintra	Vietnam
Province	Thua Thien – Hue province
Population
• Total	340,000

Huế (help·info) (化 in chữ Nôm) is the caipital ceety o Thừa Thiên - Huế province, Vietnam. Atween 1802 an 1945, it wis the imperial caipital o the Nguyễn Dynasty. It is weel kent for its monuments an architecture. Its population stands at aboot 340,000 fowk.

History

Huế originally rose tae prominence as the caipital o the Nguyễn Lords, a feudal dynasty which dominatit muckle o soothren Vietnam fae the 17^t tae the 19^t century. In 1775 when Trịnh Sâm captured it, it wis kent as Phú Xuân. In 1802, Nguyễn Phúc Ánh (later Emperor Gia Long) succeedit in establishin his control ower the whole o Vietnam, therebi makin Huế the naitional caipital.^[1]

Huế wis the naitional caipital till 1945, when Emperor Bảo Đại abdicatit an a communist government wis established in Hà Nội (Hanoi), in the north.^[2] While Bảo Đại (Hue city) wis briefly proclaimed "Heid o State" wi the help o the returnin French colonialists in 1949 (although no wi recognition frae the communists an the full acceptance o the Vietnamese people), his new caipital wis Sài Gòn (Saigon), in the sooth.^[3]

In the Vietnam War, Huế’s central position placed it vera near the border atween North Vietnam an Sooth Vietnam; housomeivver, the ceety wis locatit in Sooth Vietnam. In the Tết Offensive o 1968, durin the Battle of Huế, the ceety suffered considerable damage no ae to its physical features, but its reputation as well, maist o it frae American firepouer an bombings on the historical buildings as well as the massacre at Huế committit bi the communist forces. Efter the war’s conclusion, mony o the historic features o Huế wur neglectit acause they wur seen bi the victorious regime an some ither Vietnamese as "relics frae the feudal regime"; the Vietnamese Communist Pairty doctrine offeecially described the Nguyễn Dynasty as "feudal" an "reactionary." There haes since been a chynge o policy, housomeivver, an mony historical auries o the ceety are currently being restored.

References

↑ Woodside, Alexander (1988). Vietnam and the Chinese model: a comparative study of Vietnamese and Chinese government in the first half of the nineteenth century. Harvard Univ Asia Center. p. 127. ISBN 978-0-674-93721-5.
↑ Boobbyer, Claire; Spooner, Andrew; O'Tailan, Jock (2008). Vietnam, Cambodia & Laos. Footprint Travel Guides. p. 122. ISBN 978-1-906098-09-4.
↑ Stearns, Peter N.; Langer, William Leonard (2001). The Encyclopedia of world history: ancient, medieval, and modern, chronologically arranged. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. p. 1036.

[1] Woodside, Alexander (1988). Vietnam and the Chinese model: a comparative study of Vietnamese and Chinese government in the first half of the nineteenth century. Harvard Univ Asia Center. p. 127. ISBN 978-0-674-93721-5.

[2] Boobbyer, Claire; Spooner, Andrew; O'Tailan, Jock (2008). Vietnam, Cambodia & Laos. Footprint Travel Guides. p. 122. ISBN 978-1-906098-09-4.

[3] Stearns, Peter N.; Langer, William Leonard (2001). The Encyclopedia of world history: ancient, medieval, and modern, chronologically arranged. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. p. 1036.

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