Đồng Đăng
Đồng Đăng Commune
Xã Đồng Đăng Pháo đài Đồng Đăng | |
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.jpg) A corner of Đồng Đăng. | |
| Nickname(s): "The Border Fortress" (Tiền đồn biên viễn) | |
  Đồng Đăng Commune Location within Vietnam. | |
| Coordinates: 21°56′45″N 106°41′48″E / 21.94583°N 106.69667°E | |
| Country |  Vietnam |
| Region | Northern Midlands and Mountains |
| Province | Lạng Sơn |
| Establishment | VII century |
| Central hall | No.10, Nam Quan little zone, Đồng Đăng commune |
| Government | |
| • Type | Commune-level authority |
| • People Committee's Chairman | Nguyễn Ngọc Thiều |
| • People Council's Chairman | Lê Trí Thức |
| • Front Committee's Chairman | Nông Văn Cường |
| • Party Committee's Secretary | Lê Trí Thức |
| Area | |
| 91.57 km2 (35.36 sq mi) | |
| Population (2025) | |
| 24,976 | |
| • Density | 270/km2 (710/sq mi) |
| • Urban | 8,922 |
| • Metro | 16,054 |
| • Ethnicities | Kinh Tanka Nùng Tày Tráng |
| Time zone | UTC+7 (Indochina Time) |
| ZIP code | 240000—25164[note 1] |
| Website | Dongdang.Langson.gov.vn Dongdang.Langson.dcs.vn |
Đồng Đăng [ɗə̤wŋ˨˩:ɗaŋ˧˧] is a commune of Lạng Sơn province in the Northern Midlands and Mountains region of Vietnam.[1]
History
[edit]Middle Ages
[edit]The area of Đồng Đăng (同登) was inherently deserted. It had only Tam Thanh temple, Kỳ Lừa market and a small fort to defend the frontier,[2] which was built in the Later Lê Dynasty about the XVI century.
Đồng Đăng was once an unexpected land until the Battle of Đồng Đăng occurred, which caused shock of both Guangxi and Tonkin in 1885.
XX century
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In September 1940 a group of Japanese officers, in spite of an agreement signed the 22nd, attacked Đồng Đăng and laid siege to Lam Sơn, beginning the Japanese invasion of French Indochina. In March 1945 the Japanese again attacked, and it was the site of the fiercest fighting of the March coup d'état, when a company of Tonkinese Rifles and a battery of colonial artillery held off the invaders for three days before being massacred by them.
In 1979, the border township became ground for heavy engagements between Chinese and Vietnamese forces during the Sino-Vietnamese War.
XXI century
[edit]At 08:13 AM on February 26, 2019, Đồng Đăng Station was honored to be the first place of Vietnam to welcome North Korean leader Kim Jong-un to prepare for the summit with US President Donald Trump in Hanoi.[3]
On April 21, 2025, after the dissolution of Cao Lộc Rural District by the Government of Vietnam, according to the Plan for arrangement of the commune-level administrative units in 2025[note 2] by the Lạng Sơn Provincial People's Committee, Đồng Đăng Township was officially merged with four communes Hồng Phong, Phú Xá, Thụy Hùng, Bảo Lâm to become a new administrative unit from 0 o'clock on May 1 : Đồng Đăng commune (xã Đồng Đăng).[4]
Geography
[edit]Topography
[edit]Đồng Đăng is best known as a border commune on the Vietnamese side of the main road and rail crossing to China. It is on National Route 1.
Đồng Đăng station and the commune capital are several kilometres short of the Friendship Pass border crossing.[note 3][note 4] It is one of three main border crossings with China, the others being Móng Cái–Dongxing, Guangxi to the East on the coast, and Laokay–Hekou, Yunnan, inland 150 km Northwest.[note 5] A fourth crossing is the Trà Lĩnh District–Longbang, Guangxi crossing.
Landscapes
[edit]- From Middle Ages
- Kỳ Lừa market (Kỳ Lừa thị)
- Nhị Thanh temple (Nhị Thanh quán)
- Tam Thanh temple (Tam Thanh quán)
- Tô Thị stone (Tô Thị thạch)
- From XX century
- Friendship Pass (Hữu Nghị quan)
- Đồng Đăng Fort (Đồn Đồng Đăng)
- Hanoi–Đồng Đăng Railway (Hà Nội - Đồng Đăng thiết lộ)
- Tien Yen–Lang Son–Cao Bang Expressway (Tiên Yên - Lạng Sơn - Cao Bằng cao tốc lộ)
Culture
[edit]Since the Manuels de lecture en quốc-văn has been published for the first time, the folk poem of the typical landscapes in Đồng Đăng commune have been popular in the thought of the generations of Vietnamese people.
- Đồng Đăng has market Kỳ Lừa,
- Also lady Tô Thị and temple Tam Thanh.
- [...]
- Đồng Đăng có phố Kỳ Lừa,
- Có nàng Tô Thị, có chùa Tam Thanh.
- [...][5]
See also
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Dong Dang travel guide from Wikivoyage
Notes and references
[edit]Notes
[edit]- ^ An official code from 2022 to present.
- ^ Đề án sắp xếp đơn vị hành chính cấp xã năm 2025 của UBND tỉnh Lạng Sơn.
- ^ Vietnam 10 - Page 158 Nick Ray, Yu-Mei Balasingamchow, Iain Stewart - 2009 "border crossing : youyi guan–Huu nghi quan - The Friendship Pass at Dong Dang–Pingxiang is the most popular border crossing in the far North. The border post itself is at Huu Nghi Quan (Friendship Gate), 3km North of Dong Dang township ; a xe-ôm".
- ^ China's Southwest 3rd Edition - Page 485 Damian Harper - 2007 "As train tickets to China are expensive in Hanoi, some travellers buy a ticket to Dong Dang, walk across the border and then buy a train ticket on the Chinese side. This isn't the best way, because it's several kilometres from Dong Dang to Friendship Pass, and you'll have to hire someone to take you by motorbike. If you're going by train, it's best to buy a ticket from Hanoi to Pingxiang".
- ^ Rough Guide to China - Page 20 David Leffman, Simon Lewis, Jeremy Atiyah - 2003 "Vietnam has three border crossings with China - Dong Dang, 60km Northeast of Hanoi ; Lao Cai, 150km Northwest ; and the little-used Mong Cai, 200km south of Nanning. All three are open daily between 8.30am and 5pm. Vietnamese border...".
References
[edit]- ^ Lạng Sơn triển khai lấy ý kiến cử tri về sắp xếp đơn vị hành chính cấp xã
- ^ Đồng Đăng fort 1 2 3 4 5 (vi)
- ^ North Korean President Kim Jong-un arrived at Đồng Đăng Station (vi)
- ^ Chi tiết tên 4 phường mới của TP Lạng Sơn sau sáp nhập
- ^ Full poem Đồng Đăng has market Kỳ Lừa... in Thivien.net (vi)
Further reading
[edit]Bibliography
[edit]- Vietnamese
- Lý Đông A, Ký trình : Ngày giờ đã khẩn cấp !, Liuzhou, Guangxi, China, 1943.
- Lý Đông A, Tuyên ngôn ngày thành lập Việt Duy Dân Đảng, Hoa-Binh, Tonkin, Indochina, 1943.
- Trần Ngọc Thêm. Cơ sở văn hóa Việt Nam (The Foundation of Vietnamese Culture), 504 pages. Publishing by Nhà xuất bản Đại học Tổng hợp TPHCM. Saigon, Vietnam, 1995.
- Trần Quốc Vượng, Tô Ngọc Thanh, Nguyễn Chí Bền, Lâm Mỹ Dung, Trần Thúy Anh. Cơ sở văn hóa Việt Nam (The Basis of Vietnamese Culture), 292 pages. Re-publishing by Nhà xuất bản Giáo Dục Việt Nam & Quảng Nam Printing Co-Ltd. Hanoi, Vietnam, 2006.
- Masaya Shiraishi (author) & Ngô Bắc (translator), Việt Nam Kiến Quốc Quân và cuộc khởi nghĩa năm 1940 (Nation-Building Army of Viet-Nam and the 1940 Revolt), December 21, 2009.
- Tập bản đồ hành chính Việt Nam (Vietnamese administrative maps), Nhà xuất bản Tài nguyên – Môi trường và Bản đồ Việt Nam, Hà Nội, 2013.
- Series of Đồng Đăng fort in Vietnamese journal Tiền-Phong.
- English
- George Coedes. The Making of South East Asia, 2nd ed. University of California Press, 1983.
- Li Tana (2011). Jiaozhi (Giao Chỉ) in the Han period Tongking Gulf. In Cooke, Nola ; Li Tana ; Anderson, James A. (eds.). The Tongking Gulf Through History. University of Pennsylvania Press. pp. 39–44. ISBN 9780812205022.
- Li Tana, Towards an environmental history of the eastern Red River Delta, Vietnam, c.900–1400, Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, 2014.
- Samuel Baron, Christoforo Borri, Olga Dror, Keith W. Taylor (2018). Views of Seventeenth-Century Vietnam : Christoforo Borri on Cochinchina and Samuel Baron on Tonkin. Cornell University Press. ISBN 978-1-501-72090-1.
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