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VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, HANOI INSTITUTE OF VIETNAMESE STUDIES AND DEVELOPMENT SCIENCES - DANG PHUONG LINH THE ADMINISTRATION PLACE NAMES OF THO XUONG DISTRICT (THANG LONG – HANOI) IN 19th CENTURY MASTER„S THESIS Major: Vietnamese studies Hanoi-2013 VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, HANOI INSTITUTE OF VIETNAMESE STUDIES AND DEVELOPMENT SCIENCES - DANG PHUONG LINH THE ADMINISTRATION PLACE NAMES OF THO XUONG DISTRICT (THANG LONG – HANOI) IN 19th CENTURY MASTER„S THESIS Major: Vietnamese studies Code: 60 22 01 13 Supervisors: A Professor – Ph.D Nguyen Thi Viet Thanh Hanoi-2013 The administration place names of Tho Xuong district (Thang Long-Hanoi) in 19th century CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS COMMITMENTS CONVENTION BEGINNING The reasons for Thesis‟s subject Objects of Thesis Scope of Thesis Purposes of Thesis Tasks of Thesis Methodology of Thesis Layout of the Thesis Chapter 10 BASIC THEORY OF TOPONYMY AND GENERAL INFORMATION OF THANG LONG-HANOI 10 1.1 Basic theory of Toponymy 10 1.2 General information of toponymy reasearch and Thang Long-Hanoi place name researchs 12 1.3 Overview of Thang Long – Hanoi in 19th century 17 1.4 Overview of Tho Xuong district in 19th century 19 Chapter 21 ADMINISTRATION PLACE NAMES OF THO XUONG DISTRICT IN THE PERIOD 1802-1831 21 2.1 Overview of administration system of Tho Xuong district in the period 1802 – 1831 21 2.2 Precincts of Tho Xuong district in 1802 – 1831 22 2.3 Some general characteristics of Tho Xuong district‟s place names in the period 1802-1831 40 2.4 Conclusion of chapter 50 Chapter 53 ADMINISTRATION PLACE NAMES OF THO XUONG DISTRICT AFTER 1831 53 3.1 Administration place names of Tho Xuong district in the period 18311887 53 3.2 Administration place names of Tho Xuong district after 1887 78 3.3 Conclusion of chapter 81 CONCLUSION 85 APPENDIX 87 Dang Phuong Linh Institute of Vietnamese Studies and Development Sciences The administration place names of Tho Xuong district (Thang Long-Hanoi) in 19th century Appendix 88 The list shows the transformation of the Tho Xuong district„s administration place names in periods 1802-1831 & 1831-1887, along with their current location 88 Appendix 110 The list of current Hanoi‟s administration place names and their corresponding locations in periods: After the Revolution, in the French colonial period & in the Nguyen Dynasty 110 REFERENCES 163 Dang Phuong Linh Institute of Vietnamese Studies and Development Sciences The administration place names of Tho Xuong district (Thang Long-Hanoi) in 19th century ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I would like to express my special thanks to Associate Professor Nguyen Thi Viet Thanh for her kind supervision I am grateful to the leaders of Thang Long Hanoi heritage conservation Centre for helps during my master course I also give my thankfulness to my family, my colleagues and my friends whose support and encouragement lead me to success Hanoi, December 6th, 2013 Sincerely, Dang Phuong Linh Dang Phuong Linh Institute of Vietnamese Studies and Development Sciences The administration place names of Tho Xuong district (Thang Long-Hanoi) in 19th century COMMITMENTS I commit that this master thesis was my own research The thesis‟s results were honest and have never been published in public Hanoi, December 6th, 2013 Sincerely, Dang Phuong Linh Dang Phuong Linh Institute of Vietnamese Studies and Development Sciences The administration place names of Tho Xuong district (Thang Long-Hanoi) in 19th century CONVENTION Convention table In the thesis, we give temporary convention of some words according to this table: No ENGLISH VIETNAMESE Prefect Phủ District Huyện Prefecture Tổng Hamlet Thôn Precinct Phường Camp Trại Commune Xã Convention of spelling of some place names The thesis‟s topic is about toponymy; therefore it contains a lot of place names which are difficult to understand if translating into English For this reason, we keep the spelling of some place names in Vietnamese Dang Phuong Linh Institute of Vietnamese Studies and Development Sciences The administration place names of Tho Xuong district (Thang Long-Hanoi) in 19th century BEGINNING The reasons for Thesis’s subject Place itself is an object containing linguistic factors, historical factors, geography factors and also ethnography factors Place name is not only the name of an identifiable geographical location, an administration place name or a particular building, but also the images of the elements of history, culture, geography, anthropology of mentioned place name For this reason, place name is also called “stele” which records the most important marks in terms of history, culture, geography, population of land or location named In the process of formation and transformation of an area, place name usually don‟t No change but alter under the influence of many factors These factors make place names become “live sediments” which record valuable information of many sciences such as linguistics, ethnography, cultural studies, history and archaeology With such characteristics, in recent years, many people have chosen place name to be research object with interdisciplinary approach and precinct orientation Refer to Thang Long-Hanoi, it is known that not only the biggest center of politics, economy, and culture of our country but also the place having historical monument which relates to the process of national founding and defence To learn about Thang Long-Hanoi shows us the beauty of cultural values of our country in general and Thang Long-Hanoi in particular However, within limit of a master thesis, we only select to research a small part of Thang LongHanoi‟s place name system which is administration place names of Tho Xuong district in Nguyen dynasty (in 19th century) We selected this topic to research because Nguyen dynasty stored much material of place names through Dang Phuong Linh Institute of Vietnamese Studies and Development Sciences The administration place names of Tho Xuong district (Thang Long-Hanoi) in 19th century monography books and land register books Besides, this is also the period Vietnam's history is fluctuate, especially in the organizational and administration We choose Tho Xuong district to be the research space because almost the Hanoi‟s nerve-centres at that time located in this district Within the scope of a master's thesis, we only focus on the administration place names which are the most typical fluctuate in the place name system of Thang Long-Hanoi in general and Tho Xuong district in particular Objects of Thesis The object of the thesis is the administration place names of Tho Xuong district in the 19th century (mainly in the Nguyen Dynasty) We focus on structure, situation and transformation of Tho Xuong district‟s place names in each history periods in 19th century Scope of Thesis The scope of the thesis all of administration place names of Tho Xuong district which contains prefectures Research time mainly focuses on the 19th century when Tho Xuong district had much fluctuation under the influence of political and social factors Besides, we concentrate on the transformation of the the place names from the point of language, culture and history Purposes of Thesis The first aim of the thesis is researching administration place names of Tho Xuong district in 19th century in terms of: identification mode, semantics, origins and transformation, as well as culture specific characteristics The second aim of thesis is to describe the structure of administration place names of Tho Xuong district in 19th century and to clear the relationship between place names and some elements such as history, geography, ethnicity, archeology, culture Dang Phuong Linh Institute of Vietnamese Studies and Development Sciences The administration place names of Tho Xuong district (Thang Long-Hanoi) in 19th century The third aim of thesis is to study Thang Long-Hanoi in many different angles which can contribute to restore a comprehensive picture of traditional Hanoi Tasks of Thesis To achieve the above purposes, thesis has to solve the following research tasks: - To study theories of toponymy and culture characteristic issues of place names to be basic for further research - To collect all the administration place names of Tho Xuong district in 19th century - To describe, classify and analyse the administration place name system of Tho Xuong district in 19th century according to toponymy criteria, then draw remarks in aspects: identification mode, semantics, origins and transformation - To study history and culture characteristics which are expressed by this region‟s administration place names - To build a document system of administration place names of Tho Xuong district through convention tables We put the tables in the Appendix of the thesis which contains: + Appendix 1: The list shows the transformation of the Tho Xuong district‟s administration place names in periods 1802-1831 & 1831-1887, along with their current location (22 pages) + Appendix 2: The list of current Hanoi‟s administration place names and their corresponding locations in periods: After the Revolution, in the French colonial period & in the Nguyen Dynasty (47 pages) Methodology of Thesis - Survey method: study, synthesize, and collect all administration place names of Tho Xuong district in 19th century (mainly through sources: monography, land-register book, place-name dictionary and maps) Dang Phuong Linh Institute of Vietnamese Studies and Development Sciences ... in general and Tho Xuong district in particular Objects of Thesis The object of the thesis is the administration place names of Tho Xuong district in the 19th century (mainly in the Nguyen Dynasty)... transformation of Tho Xuong district? ??s place names in each history periods in 19th century Scope of Thesis The scope of the thesis all of administration place names of Tho Xuong district which contains... Overview of Thang Long – Hanoi in 19th century 17 1.4 Overview of Tho Xuong district in 19th century 19 Chapter 21 ADMINISTRATION PLACE NAMES OF THO XUONG DISTRICT IN THE PERIOD