On March 23, speaking with Lao Dong reporter, the National Political Publishing House Truth said that this agency has just published a book series " lap and change place names, boundaries, and administrative units in Vietnam's history" compiled by researcher Nguyen Quang An.
The book series consists of 2 volumes. volume I: From the time Hung Vuong built the country to April 1975 . volume II: From May 1975 to present.
The book series is a massive scientific work that has been researched, compiled in an elaborate and serious manner and is a historical chronicle presenting the division of administrative areas in the territory of Vietnam and the changes in place names and administrative boundaries through historical periods from the time of Hung Vuong's rise to the present.
Through presenting documents objectively and scientifically, the book series introduces to readers the process of dividing, separating, and merging our country's administrative units from the Hung Kings' rise, the Northern domination period, the feudal period, the French domination period, the August Revolution to establish the Democratic Republic of Vietnam and two important resistance wars against French colonialism and the American empire, protecting national independence, the period from the day the country was peaceful and unified in 1975 to the present.
The synthesis, systematization, arrangement, and presentation of continuous changes in place names and boundaries of administrative units throughout the long history of the country has also been recorded relatively fully based on the source system of documents such as newspapers, documents, and legal documents with high reliability.
According to the Truth National Political Publishing House, with its great value, the book series is a useful search tool, a "handbook" for scientists and localities in researching and compiling addresses of provinces, districts, communes and local history, for policy makers, political leaders, administrative managers, economic and social managers; for investors and readers who want to learn about regions, areas and localities in Vietnam.
In his introduction to the book by Deputy Minister of Home Affairs Truong Hai Long, he wrote: Research and compilation on changes in place names and administrative boundaries of Vietnam in history is a large, complex but important issue.
According to the Deputy Minister of Home Affairs, the book " Establishing and changing place names and administrative boundaries in Vietnamese history" (including 2 volumes) by researcher Nguyen Quang An is a scientific work that was compiled and researched in a large and elaborate manner, compiled from thousands of documents, papers, and legal documents on the division of Vietnam's boundaries into administrative areas through the ages, from the time of Hung Vuong to the present.
The book provides information and knowledge about the names, history of formation, development, change, division, and merger of Vietnamese administrative units from the past to the present; is a valuable, useful, and convenient search tool book for research agencies, institutes, experts, scientists in the field of administrative boundary management, policy makers, and researchers in geography; especially for research and compilation of geography and national and local history.
