Hà Tiên province
Hà Tiên (Vietnamese: tỉnh Hà Tiên; chữ Hán: 河僊) was a former province of South Vietnam originally formed in 1832 and disestablished in 1956. Its capital was Hà Tiên.
History
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In 18 century, a small town "Hà Tiên" was established by Mo Jiu (Mạc Cửu), whom was a Chinese emigrant.
Many works incorrectly referred to Hà Tiên as "Panthaimas", confusing Hà Tiên with Banteay Meas.[1] It was variously spelled as Panday-mas (Khmer), Ponteamass (English), Phutthaimat (Thai: พุทไธมาศ) or Banthaimat (Thai: บันทายมาศ), Ponthiamas or Pontheaymas (French), Pontiano (Robert's Map, 1751), Panthai-mas, Bantaimas, Pontiamas, Pontaimas, Bantay-mas, Banteay M’eas, Pontiamas, Pontiamasse, Po-taimat, and infinite other variations.[2]
Mạc Cửu later switched allegiance to the
Hà Tiên trấn was disestablished and changed to Hà Tiên province in 1832. It was one of
In 1950, Hà Tiên province and Long Châu Hậu province were merged into the new established Long Châu Hà Province. In 1954, Long Châu Hà province was disestablished and divided into three provinces: Hà Tiên, Châu Đốc, Long Xuyên.
On 22 October 1956, Hà Tiên province and Rạch Giá province merged to
References
- ISBN 978-0-7425-3083-6
- ^ Nicholas Sellers, The Princes of Hà-Tiên (1682-1867): the Last of the Philosopher-Princes and the Prelude to the French Conquest of Indochina: a Study of the Independent Rule of the Mac Dynasty in the Principality of Hà-Tiên, and the Establishment of the Empire of Vietnam, Brussels, Thanh-long, 1983, p. 164.
- ISBN 978-0-520-05061-7
- ^ Trương, Jean Baptiste Pétrus Vĩnh Ký (1875). Petit cours de géographie de la Basse-Cochinchine (Small Course on Lower Cochinchina Geography). Bibliothèque nationale de France (National Library of France). Retrieved 4 January 2014.