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Nam Viet, ancient kingdom occupying much of what is now northern Vietnam and the southern Chinese provinces of Kwangtung and Kwangsi. The kingdom was formed in 207 bce, during the breakup of the Ch’in dynasty (221–206 bce), when the Ch’in governor of Yüeh (now Kwangtung and Kwangsi provinces)
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'Southern Yue', Vietnamese: Nam Việt, Zhuang: Namz Yied), [3] was an ancient kingdom founded in 204 BC by the Chinese general Zhao Tuo, whose family (known in Vietnamese as the Triệu dynasty) continued to rule until 111 BC.
Nanyue (Chinese: 南越; pinyin: Nányuè, also called Southern Yue), or Nam Việt (Vietnamese: Nam Việt; Zhuang: Namzyied), was an ancient Chinese (and Vietnamese) kingdom that covered the modern Chinese subdivisions of Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan, Hong Kong, and Macau, as well as parts of southern Fujian and northern Vietnam.
Nanyue or Nam Việt (204 BCE – 111 BCE) —an ancient kingdom that consisted of parts of the modern southern Chinese provinces of Guangdong, Guangxi, and Yunnan and northern Vietnam. In 207 BC, the former Qin general Zhao Tuo (Triệu Đà in Vietnamese) established an independent kingdom in the present-day Guangdong / Guangxi area of China ...
Au Lac existed only until 207 bce, when it was incorporated by a former Chinese general, Trieu Da (Chao T’o in Chinese), into the kingdom of Nam Viet (Nan Yue in Chinese). Nam Viet. This kingdom covered much of southern China and was ruled by Trieu Da from his capital near the present site of Guangzhou (Canton). Its population consisted ...
Nam Viet enjoyed nearly a century of independence until the Chinese returned under the Han to conquer the kingdom's capital of Panyu. The southern Cham states and Funan remained outside of Chinese control, but northern Vietnam endured the ' First Chinese Domination of Vietnam ' between 111 BC and AD 40.
Occupying Southern Han forces were defeated in AD 938 and a restored Nam Viet kingdom witnessed a long period of national independence, starting under the Ngo dynasty. Undergoing various name changes along the way, by the eighteenth century the state had become Dai Viet.
