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New book features Vietnam’s sea, islands


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The Vietnam Education Publishing House has launched a new book featuring Vietnam’s sovereignty over the Hoang Sa and Truong Sa archipelagoes

Entitled “Evidence of Vietnam’s sovereignty over the Hoang Sa and Truong Sa archipelagoes”, the book comprises the results of 40-year research by famous historian Han Nguyen Nguyen Nha.
The 284-page volume is based on diverse materials collected both at home and abroad, including some high legal and historical documents such as records of the Nguyen dynasty (1804-1839), documents on exercising sovereignty of the Tay Son dynasty (1778-1802), bibliographies and old maps of the Vietnamese Feudal State, and western old documents and maps.

The book also includes four appendices introducing the chronological table, maps and photographs on Hoang Sa and Truong Sa, and the Law on the Sea of Vietnam approved in June 2012.

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