Đức Cơ district
Đức Cơ rural district
Huyện Đức Cơ | |
|---|---|
| Nickname: "The Border Lover" (Người tình biên ải) | |
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| Country | File:Flag of Vietnam.svg Vietnam |
| Region | Central Highlands |
| Province | Gia Lai province |
| Existence | 1957 to August 30, 2025 |
| Central hall | No.116, Quang Trung road, Chư Ty township |
| Government | |
| • Type | Rural district |
| • People Committee's Chairman | Vũ Định Mạnh |
| • People Council's Chairman | Phạm Văn Cường |
| • Front Committee's Chairman | Rơ Châm H’Phíp[1] |
| • Party Committee's Secretary | Phạm Văn Cường |
| Area | |
• Total | 717 km2 (277 sq mi) |
| Population (2018) | |
• Total | 62,031 |
| • Density | 86.5/km2 (224/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+7 (Indochina Time) |
| ZIP code | 61500[note 1] |
| Website | Ducco.Gialai.gov.vn Ducco.Gialai.dcs.vn |
Đức Cơ is a former rural district of Gia Lai province in the Central Highlands region of Vietnam.
History
[edit | edit source]Its name Đức Cơ from Daàk-kơh in Jarai language, what means "the stream of the mops". It was changed by President Ngô Đình Diệm's policy in 1957.
XX century
[edit | edit source]During the Vietnam War, the battle of Đức Cơ was the most important event of the Republic of Vietnam Marine Division, who won a resounding : "Delayed in Bình Giã so we did not back down; The hard victory made us deserve to be volunteers for death; Our people were happy to welcome the victory of Đức Cơ" (Lừng danh Bình Giã chúng ta không hề lùi bước; Chiến thắng phong sương xứng danh là cảm tử quân; Đồng bào mừng vui đón chào chiến thắng Đức Cơ) – March of the Marine Division, "Maybe I will return from the victory of Pleime; Or Đức Cơ, or Đồng Xoài, or Bình Giã ?" (Anh trở lại, có thể bằng chiến thắng Pleime; Hay Ðức Cơ, Ðồng Xoài, Bình Giã ?) – by Linh Phương's poem in 1971 and Phạm Duy's song in 1972, Man Who Entered The War History (Người vào chiến sử) by Anh Việt Thu, The Man Stayed At Charlie (Người ở lại Charlie) by Trần Thiện Thanh. This place is also the main context of theme song Warrior, Who Are You (Hỡi người chiến sĩ, anh là ai) in 1971 epic movie Faceless Lover (Người tình không chân dung) by Hoàng Vĩnh Lộc and Kiều Chinh. In addition, it was also mentioned by Phan Nhật Nam's battlefield memoirs and a few other novels mentioned very vividly and majestic.
XXI century
[edit | edit source]To meet the criteria of the plan for arrangement and merger of administrative units, according to the Decision of the Gia Lai Provincial People's Committee,[2] which was issued in February 2025, from 00:00 on September 1 of the same year, Đức Cơ Rural District was officially dissolved.[3]
Geography
[edit | edit source]As of 2003 the district had a population of 49,745. The majority of the native Jarai people, followed by the Kinh people.[4] In the early 2000s, even the number of Kinh people continuously decreased due to the wrong economic policies of the local government, causing young people to leave elsewhere.
The district covers an area of 717 km², that is, it is equivalent to Singapore Island. The district capital lies at Chư Ty.[4]
Culture
[edit | edit source]Đức Cơ is located in the position of the strongest flowing water of the Se San basin, so it has been renovated into the most important hydroelectric lake of the Indochina junction. This project has quickly became a tourist landscape what was not to be missed.
This rural district was planned to be the center of the Development Triangle Project until Cambodia announced a retreat in 2024.
Notes and references
[edit | edit source]Notes
[edit | edit source]- ^ An official code from 2024 to 2025.
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ Bà Rơ Châm H’Phíp được hiệp thương giữ chức Chủ tịch Ủy ban MTTQ Việt Nam huyện Đức Cơ
- ^ Chủ tịch Quốc hội Trần Thanh Mẫn : Đoàn kết, nỗ lực, bảo đảm tiến độ sắp xếp đơn vị hành chính (in Vietnamese)
- ^ Vùng biên giới Đức Cơ giảm nghèo từ vốn tín dụng chính sách (in Vietnamese)
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Further reading
[edit | edit source]Bibliography
[edit | edit source]- George Coedes. The Making of South East Asia, 2nd ed. University of California Press, 1983.
- Trần Ngọc Thêm. Cơ sở văn hóa Việt Nam (The Foundation of Vietnamese Culture), 504 pages. Publishing by Nhà xuất bản Đại học Tổng hợp TPHCM. Saigon, Vietnam, 1995.
- Trần Quốc Vượng, Tô Ngọc Thanh, Nguyễn Chí Bền, Lâm Mỹ Dung, Trần Thúy Anh. Cơ sở văn hóa Việt Nam (The Basis of Vietnamese Culture), 292 pages. Re-publishing by Nhà xuất bản Giáo Dục Việt Nam & Quảng Nam Printing Co-Ltd. Hanoi, Vietnam, 2006.
- Li Tana (2011). Jiaozhi (Giao Chỉ) 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. 39–44. ISBN 9780812205022.
- Tập bản đồ hành chính Việt Nam (Vietnamese Administrative Maps), Nhà xuất bản Tài nguyên – Môi trường và Bản đồ Việt Nam, Hà Nội, 2013.
- Li Tana, Towards an environmental history of the Eastern Red River Delta, Vietnam, c.900–1400, 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.
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External links
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