nam tiến
Definition
- Historical Term:
- Southward march: The historical process of the territorial and cultural expansion of Vietnamese kingdoms and people from their original heartlands in the Red River Delta southward along the coast of mainland Southeast Asia, primarily between the 11th and 18th centuries.
Usage Examples
- Historical Term:
- Nam tiến là một quá trình lịch sử quan trọng của dân tộc Việt Nam. (The Nam Tiến was an important historical process for the Vietnamese nation.)
- Các học giả nghiên cứu về chính sách nam tiến của các triều đại phong kiến. (Scholars study the southward expansion policies of feudal dynasties.)
Advanced Usage
- The term is used in academic and historical discourse to describe a complex, centuries-long phenomenon involving migration, military campaigns, and agricultural settlement that significantly shaped modern Vietnam's geography and demographics.
Variants and Related Words
- Cuộc nam tiến (n): The southward march/expansion (emphasizing the event or process).
- Cuộc nam tiến kéo dài hàng trăm năm. (The southward expansion lasted for hundreds of years.)
Synonyms
- Southward expansion
- Southern advance
Related Concepts
- Territorial expansion: The act of a state increasing its territory.
- Frontier settlement: The movement of people to settle in new, often contested, border regions.
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(từ cũ) Southward march
