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61: 360: 290: 349: 232: 282: 1024: 249:(Central market Square). The subsequent openings of the new Saigon Railway Station (1915) and the Halles centrales electric tramway terminus (1923) and the operation of two bus stations transformed the square into one of Saigon's most important transport hubs. In 1929, the authorities installed a traffic circle with landscaped gardens at the square's center. 313:. A year later, a white memorial bust of Quách Thị Trang was placed near the center of the roundabout. According to Vu Quang Hung, who was then a student and the head of the secret "Quach Thi Trang Monument Construction Committee", the erection of the bust was carefully planned to take place very quickly in late September 1964 during a protest against the 228:
sanitation of the Boresse marsh which also included the planning of the new railway station and the construction of the Saigon–Cholon boulevard (modern-day Trần Hưng Đạo). As a result, the locomotive depot was demolished and the railway terminus was relocated to the area now occupied by September 23 Park.
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known as Marais Boresse. In the early 1880s, part of the marsh was reclaimed for the construction of the Saigon–My Tho railway line and a large steam locomotive depot. However, the present-day square was not laid out until 1910, when the government approved a 1.25-million-piastre project for
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to make space for the metro station construction site. The Saigon Railway Station, on the other hand, was soon closed in 1978 and was relocated to Hòa Hưng (the site of the
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Ministry of Public Works and Transport and became the central bus station of Saigon. This bus station remained in operation until 2017 when it was relocated to the nearby
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Additionally, in 1957, the tramway terminus at the square, previously managed by the Compagnie française des tramways de l'Indochine (C.F.T.I.), was taken over by the
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The square, originally a simple open space, was opened in March 1914, along with the Halles centrales (present-day Bến Thành Market). In 1916, it was officially named
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in front of Bến Thành Market. A further major renovation of the square, which includes the reerection of the two monuments, is expected to be completed in 2025.
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Newsletters about the Vietnamese war sent by Takashi Oka from Vietnam, Japan and Austria to the Institute of Current World Affairs
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Upon the completion of the metro station, the square was temporarily restored and traffic was rerouted to create a
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View of the square before and after the removal of the Tran Nguyen Han statue and the Quach Thi Trang bust
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After Vietnam was reunified, Diên Hồng Square was officially renamed
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Rapports au Conseil de Gouvernement. Session ordinaire de 1913
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Pháp nạn Phật giáo 1963: Nguyên nhân, bản chất và tiến trình
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government after the name of a meeting convened by emperor
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Quach Thi Trang Square
City square
Quach Thi Trang Square in 2009
Ho Chi Minh City
District 1
Ho Chi Minh City
10°46′17″N 106°41′54″E / 10.77139°N 106.69833°E / 10.77139; 106.69833
Vietnamese
city square
Bến Thành Market
District 1
Ho Chi Minh City
Vietnam
traffic circle
equestrian statue
Trần Nguyên Hãn
vi
bust
Quách Thị Trang
vi
Bến Thành station
Ho Chi Minh City Metro
French conquest of Saigon
marsh

South Vietnamese
Trần Thánh Tông
second Mongol invasion
Đại Việt

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