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Đinh Tiên Hoàng

Đinh Bộ Lĩnh
Emperor of Đại Cồ Việt
Emperor Đại Thắng Minh
VuaDinhTienHoang.jpg
A statue of Đinh Tiên Hoàng in Hoa Lư
Reign 968–979
Predecessor none
Successor Đinh Phế Đế
Born 924
Hoa Lư, Annam
Died 979
Tràng An, Annam
Spouse Dương Vân Nga
Issue Đinh Liễn
Đinh Toàn
Đinh Hạng Lang
Full name
Đinh Bộ Lĩnh
Era name and dates
Thái Bình (太平): 970–980
House Đinh Dynasty
Father Đinh Công Trứ
Full name
Đinh Bộ Lĩnh
Era name and dates
Thái Bình (太平): 970–980
Đinh Bộ Lĩnh
Vietnamese name
Vietnamese Đinh Bộ Lĩnh
Hán-Nôm

Đinh Bộ Lĩnh (924–979) (r. 968–979), originally named Đinh Hoàn ( or ), was the first Vietnamese emperor following the liberation of the country from the rule of the Chinese Southern Han Dynasty, as well as the founder of the short-lived Đinh Dynasty and a significant figure in the establishment of Vietnamese independence and political unity in the 10th century. Đinh Bộ Lĩnh is also known by his posthumous name Đinh Tiên Hoàng ().

Đinh Bộ Lĩnh was born in 924 in Hoa Lư (south of the Red River Delta, in what is today Ninh Bình Province). Growing up in a local village during the disintegration of the Chinese Tang Dynasty that had dominated Vietnam for centuries, Đinh Bộ Lĩnh became a local military leader at a very young age. From this turbulent era, the first independent Vietnamese polity emerged when the warlord Ngô Quyền defeated the Southern Han's forces in the First Battle of the Bạch Đằng River in 938. However, the Ngô Dynasty was weak and unable to effectively unify Vietnam. Faced with the domestic anarchy produced by the competition of twelve independent feudal warlords for control of the country, as well as the external threat represented by Southern Han, which regarded itself as the heir to the ancient kingdom of Nan Yue that had encompassed not only southern China but also the Bac Bo region of northern Vietnam, Đinh Bộ Lĩnh sought a strategy to politically unify the Vietnamese. Upon the death of the last Ngô king in 965, he seized power and founded a new kingdom the capital of which was in his home district of Hoa Lư. To establish his legitimacy in relation to the previous dynasty, he married a woman of the Ngô family.


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