Trực Ninh district

Trực Ninh district Huyện Trực Ninh Chân Ninh huyện
Rural District
Trung Lao Church in Trung Đôn commune.
Country	Vietnam
Region	Red River Delta
Province	Nam Định
Establishment	1833
Central agency	87C8+C3V, Thích Thế Long road, Cổ Lễ township
Government
• Type	Rural district
• People Committee's Chairman	Phạm Trọng Duy
• People Council's Chairman	Nguyễn Thanh Tùng
• Front Committee's Chairman	Mai Văn Chiến
• Party Committee's Secretary	Phạm Thành Trung
Area
• Total	14,395 km2 (5,558 sq mi)
Population  (2022)
• Total	178,103
• Density	1,237/km2 (3,200/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+7 (Indochina Time)
ZIP code	07606
Website	Trucninh.Namdinh.gov.vn Trucninh.Namdinh.dcs.vn

Trực Ninh [ʨɨ̰ʔk˨˩:nïŋ˧˧] is a rural district of Nam Định province in the Red River Delta region of Vietnam.

History

Middle Ages

Since the Sui Dynasty, this area belonged to a fairly large administrative unit called Tây Chân rural district (Tây Chân huyện). When the Trần Dynasty was founded, Tây Chân belonged to Thiên Trường prefecture. Its name implies that it was the periphery of a small urban complex called Tức Mặc village, where officials and aristocrats were concentrated.

In the Revival Lê Dynasty, because its name coincided with the title of Lord Trịnh Tạc, it was changed to Nam Chân rural district (Nam Chân huyện).

By the 14th year of Minh Mệnh (1833), Nam Chân rural district was separated into Nam Chân and Chân Ninh. About the year of Tự Đức, Chân Ninh rural district (Chân Ninh huyện) was changed as Xuân Ninh rural district (Xuân Ninh huyện). Since the years of Thành Thái, it was continued to change as Trực Ninh rural district (Trực Ninh huyện). During the Nguyễn Dynasty, some parts in the East of this rural district were transferred to Hải Hậu.

XX century

On March 26, 1968, according to Decision 41-CP of the Government of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, the two rural districts of Nam Trực and Trực Ninh re-merged into Nam Ninh rural district (huyện Nam Ninh).

From 1971 to 1996, the number of communes continuously decreased due to the merger.

On February 26, 1997, to implement Decree 19/NĐ-CP of the Government of Vietnam, Nam Ninh rural district was re-divided into two new districts : Nam Trực and Trực Ninh.

Geography

As of 2003, the district had a population of 196,765. The district covers an area of 143 km². The district capital lies at Cổ Lễ.

See also

• Giao Thủy district
• Hải Hậu district
• Nghĩa Hưng district
• Vụ Bản district

Further reading

Bibliography

• Khiếu Năng Tĩnh, Tân biên Nam Định tỉnh địa dư chí lược, 1880.
• Nguyễn On Ngọc, Nam Định tỉnh địa dư chí, 1893.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.