An Dương Vương

Statue of An Dương Vương in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

King of Âu Lạc

Reign

257 BC – 207 BC or 179 BC

Predecessor

Hùng Duệ Vương of Văn Lang

Successor

Dynasty collapsed
Triệu Đà of Nam Việt

Issue

Mỵ Châu

Full name
Thục Phán

House

Thục Dynasty

Father

Thục Chế (in Tày people's legend)

Full name
Thục Phán

Vietnamese name
An Dương Vương
Vietnamese	An Dương Vương
Hán-Nôm

Birth name

An Dương Vương (Vietnamese: [ʔaːn jɨəŋ vɨəŋ]) is the title of Thục Phán, who ruled over the kingdom of Âu Lạc (now Vietnam) from 257 to 207 BC. The leader of the Âu Việt tribes, he defeated and seized the throne from the last Hùng king of the state of Văn Lang, and united its people, known as the Lạc Việt, with the Âu Việt. In 208 BC, the capital Cổ Loa was attacked and the imperial citadel ransacked. An Dương Vương fled and committed suicide.

According to old Vietnamese historical records Đại Việt sử ký toàn thư and Khâm định Việt sử Thông giám cương mục, Thục Phán was a prince of the Chinese state of Shu (, pronounced Thục in Vietnamese), sent by his father first to explore what are now the southern Chinese provinces of Guangxi and Yunnan and second to move their people to modern-day northern Vietnam during the invasion of the Qin dynasty.

Some modern Vietnamese believe that Thục Phán came upon the territory Âu Việt tribes (modern-day northernmost Vietnam, western Guangdong, and southern Guangxi province, with its capital in what is today Cao Bằng Province). After assembling an army, he defeated the 18th dynasty of the Hùng king, the last line of rulers of the Hồng Bàng dynasty of Văn Lang, around 257 BC. He proclaimed himself An Dương Vương ("King An Dương"). He then renamed Văn Lang as Âu Lạc after the names of the conquering and conquered peoples. He established his fortress and new capital on a rise above the Red River valley at Co Loa in present-day Hanoi's Dong Anh district, about 16 kilometers (10 mi) northeast of downtown.

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