Exploring Huế – Du Lịch Khám Phá Huế

After a relatively modest start governing a small frontier lordship in what’s now Việt Nam’s north central region, the Nguyễn family gradually extended their power southward, subjugating the Chăm and then ruthlessly exploiting dynastic divisions within the Cambodian court to wrest control of the fertile Mekong Delta. By the late 18th century, they either directly or indirectly governed a land area in excess of 200,000 square kilometres, within which Buddhism was promoted as a state religion, Chinese settlement encouraged to promote as a state religion, Chinese settlement encouraged to promote international trade, and all the bureaucratic trappings of an early modern state developed to a relatively high level.