La Gi

La Gi or Lagi is a town of BÃÂ¬nh ThuÃ¡ÂºÂn province in the South Central Coast region of Vietnam.

History

Its name La Gi or Lagi [laÃÂÃÂ§ÃÂ§:ÃÂ£iÃÂ§ÃÂ§] in Kinh language was originated from ladik [laÃÂÃÂ§ÃÂ§:ÃÂÃÂ¨tÃÂ§ÃÂ¥] in Cham language, which means "swamp" to reflect the situation of this area before the 1960s.

Under the Republic of Vietnam regime, La Gi was the provincial capital of BÃÂ¬nh Tuy province (present-day western BÃÂ¬nh ThuÃ¡ÂºÂn Province). After the Vietnam War, it became the capital of HÃÂ m TÃÂ¢n District. It was established in 2005 with the split of La Gi away from HÃÂ m TÃÂ¢n District.

Geography

Currently, Lagi town is subdivided into :

5 wards : TÃÂ¢n An, PhÃÂ°Ã¡Â»Âc HÃ¡Â»Âi, PhÃÂ°Ã¡Â»Âc LÃ¡Â»Âc, TÃÂ¢n ThiÃ¡Â»Ân and BÃÂ¬nh TÃÂ¢n.
4 communes : TÃÂ¢n PhÃÂ°Ã¡Â»Âc, TÃÂ¢n TiÃ¡ÂºÂ¿n, TÃÂ¢n HÃ¡ÂºÂ£i and TÃÂ¢n BÃÂ¬nh.

Lagi borders with HÃÂ m TÃÂ¢n District in the north and west, HÃÂ m ThuÃ¡ÂºÂn Nam District in the east and the East Sea in the south. It is also on the coastal road from BÃÂ¬nh ChÃÂ¢u via LÃ¡Â»Âc An beach to PhÃÂ°Ã¡Â»Âc HÃ¡ÂºÂ£i, ÃÂÃ¡ÂºÂ¥t ÃÂÃ¡Â»Â.

Notes and references

Notes

References

SÃÂ¡n Nam, NÃÂ³i vÃ¡Â»Â miÃ¡Â»Ân Nam (Talk about the South), publishing by LÃÂ¡ BÃ¡Â»Âi, Saigon, 1967.
SÃÂ¡n Nam, VÃÂn minh miÃ¡Â»Ât vÃÂ°Ã¡Â»Ân (The Civilization of the Countryside), publishing by An TiÃÂªm, Saigon, 1970.
SÃÂ¡n Nam, LÃ¡Â»Âch sÃ¡Â»Â khÃ¡ÂºÂ©n hoang miÃ¡Â»Ân Nam (History of Reclamation in the South), publishing by ÃÂÃÂ´ng PhÃ¡Â»Â, Saigon, 1973.
SÃÂ¡n Nam, CÃÂ¡ tÃÂnh miÃ¡Â»Ân Nam (The Personality of the South), publishing by ÃÂÃÂ´ng PhÃ¡Â»Â, Saigon, 1974.
SÃÂ¡n Nam, ÃÂÃ¡Â»Âng bÃ¡ÂºÂ±ng sÃÂ´ng CÃ¡Â»Âu Long - nÃÂ©t sinh hoÃ¡ÂºÂ¡t xÃÂ°a (The Mekong Delta and Its Old Lifestyle), publishing by Hochiminh-City Publishing House, Saigon, 1985.
SÃÂ¡n Nam, Danh thÃ¡ÂºÂ¯ng miÃ¡Â»Ân Nam (Famous Landscapes of the South), publishing by ÃÂÃ¡Â»Âng ThÃÂ¡p P. H., Cao LÃÂ£nh, 1998.
SÃÂ¡n Nam, TiÃ¡ÂºÂ¿p cÃ¡ÂºÂn ÃÂÃ¡Â»Âng bÃ¡ÂºÂ±ng sÃÂ´ng CÃ¡Â»Âu Long (Access to the Mekong Delta), publishing by TrÃ¡ÂºÂ» P. H., Saigon, 2000.
TrÃ¡ÂºÂ§n NgÃ¡Â»Âc ThÃÂªm. CÃÂ¡ sÃ¡Â»Â vÃÂn hÃÂ³a ViÃ¡Â»Ât Nam (The Foundation of Vietnamese Culture), 504 pages. Publishing by NhÃÂ xuÃ¡ÂºÂ¥t bÃ¡ÂºÂ£n ÃÂÃ¡ÂºÂ¡i hÃ¡Â»Âc TÃ¡Â»Âng hÃ¡Â»Â£p TPHCM. Saigon, Vietnam, 1995.

English

George Coedes. The Making of South East Asia, 2nd ed. University of California Press, 1983.
Li Tana (2011). Jiaozhi (Giao ChÃ¡Â»Â) 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. 39Ã¢ÂÂ44. ISBN 9780812205022.
Li Tana, Towards an environmental history of the eastern Red River Delta, Vietnam, c.900Ã¢ÂÂ1400, 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

About Lagi town of BÃÂ¬nh ThuÃ¡ÂºÂn (vi)