Vietnam
/ Nha Trang / The City
Like Danang,
Nha Trang, some 445 kilometres northeast of Ho Chi Minh City,
is a city mainly renowned for it's non-Vietnamese past, as it
was an important town in the Kingdom of Champa. After armies of
the Vietnamese Le Dynasty had invaded the northern regions of
the Kingdom of Champa in 1471, the Chams retreated to a
small area around Nha Trang. In 1720, when another Vietnamese
attack was imminent, the entire Cham nation migrated to the Southwest
into an area north of lake Tonle Sap in present-day Cambodia.
50 kilometres
south of Nha Trang, Cam Ranh Bay is one of the largest
natural harbours of the world. During the Vietnam War, Cam Ranh
Bay had been one of the most important Southeast Asian harbours
for the American forces.
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