Huế (vnm)

Huế

Huế ranks 4,091st in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Gorakhpur, Yoichi, Hokkaido, and Suzdal. Memorable people born in Huế include Thích Nhất Hạnh, Bảo Đại, and Nguyễn Ngọc Loan. Memorable people who died in Huế include Nguyễn Du and Phan Bội Châu. Huế has been the birth place of many religious figures and politicians and the death place of many writers. Huế is located in Vietnam.

Huế is the capital of Thừa Thiên Huế province in the North Central Coast region of Vietnam, located near the center of Vietnam. The original site was a Cham city known as Kandarpapura and later as Amarendrapura and was the capital of the Champa Kingdom from 192 to 605. Following the conquest of city in 1307 by Vietnam, it was renamed to Huế. Huế was the capital of Đàng Trong from 1738 to 1775 and of Vietnam during the Nguyễn dynasty from 1802 to 1945. The city served as the old Imperial City and administrative capital for the Nguyễn dynasty and later functioned as the administrative capital of the protectorate of Annam during the French Indochina period. It contains a UNESCO-designated site, the Complex of Huế Monuments, which is a popular tourist attraction. Alongside its moat and thick stone walls the complex encompasses the Imperial City of Huế, with palaces and shrines; the Forbidden Purple City, once the emperor's home; and a replica of the Royal Theater. Read more on Wikipedia