Episode 8.3 - Dinh Bo Linh
/One of several Viet leaders who helped his land on the road to sovereignty, Dinh Bo Linh united the land of An Nam, a Chinese protectorate that had gained some amount of autonomy, and brought it to full independence as the kingdom of Nam Viet.
Sources
Kevin Weller Taylor, The Birth of Vietnam
Kevin Weller Taylor, Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, “The ‘Twelve Lords’ in Tenth-Century Vietnam”
John K. Whitmore and Brian Zottoli, Cambridge History of China, Chapter 5 “The Emergence of the State of Vietnam”
Cambridge History of Southeast Asia, Chapter 3 “The Early Kingdoms”
Nam Kim, Asian Perspectives, “Cultural Landscapes of War and Political Regeneration”
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