Turtle Tower
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Coordinates: 21°01′40″N 105°51′08″E / 21.0279°N 105.8523°E
Turtle Tower (Vietnamese: Tháp Rùa), also called Tortoise Tower is a small tower in the middle of Sword Lake, Hanoi, Vietnam.
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[edit] History
The tower was erected on the Turtle islet, the former fishing site under king Le Thanh Tong.[1] Under the Restored Le Dynasty (17th and 18th centuries), the Trinh Lords had Ta Vong Temple built on the islet, which left no trace into the Nguyen Dynasty.
After the French defeated the Hanoi Citadel, most of the population around the lake fled away. Vietnamese officials also left their offices. There stayed only Nguyen Ngoc Kim, who was the mediator between the French troops and the Vietnamese.
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- ^ Trần Độ (Editor-in-chief). Văn hóa Việt Nam. Hà Nội: Ban Văn hóa Văn nghệ Trung ương, 1989. Page 101.
[edit] External links
Media related to Tháp Rùa at Wikimedia Commons- Hồ Hoàn Kiếm
- Tháp Rùa nhìn từ vệ tinh
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