Đồng Đăng () is a commune of Lạng Sơn province in the Northern Midlands and Mountains region of Vietnam.Lạng Sơn triển khai lấy ý kiến cử tri về sắp xếp đơn vị hành chính cấp xã

History Middle Ages The area of Đồng Đăng () was inherently deserted. It had only the Tam Thanh temple, Kỳ Lừa market and a small fort to defend the frontier,Đồng Đăng fort 1 2 3 4 5 (vi) which was built in the Later Lê Dynasty around the 16th 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.

20th century

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.

In 1979, the border township became ground for heavy engagements between Chinese and Vietnamese forces during the Sino-Vietnamese War.

21st century 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.North Korean President Kim Jong-un arrived at Đồng Đăng Station (vi)

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 by the Lạng Sơn Provincial People's Committee, Đồng Đăng Township was officially merged with four communes, Hồng Phong, Phú Xá, Thụy Hùng, and Bảo Lâm, to become a new administrative unit from midnight on May 1: Đồng Đăng commune ().Chi tiết tên 4 phường mới của TP Lạng Sơn sau sáp nhập

Geography Topography 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. 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. A fourth crossing is the Trà Lĩnh District–Longbang, Guangxi crossing.

Landscapes From the Middle Ages Kỳ Lừa market () Nhị Thanh temple () Tam Thanh temple () Tô Thị stone () From the 20th century Friendship Pass () Đồng Đăng Fort () Hanoi–Đồng Đăng Railway () Tien Yen–Lang Son–Cao Bang Expressway ()

Culture Since the was published for the first time, folk poems about the landscapes in Đồng Đăng commune have been popular among generations of Vietnamese people.

Excerpt from the poem "":

See also

Bắc Sơn war zone Chi Lăng pass Mother mountain

Notes and references Notes

References

Further reading Bibliography 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.

External links New vitality in the border township of Langland (vi)