However, their actions in liberation made them national heroes of Vietnamese history and an immortal symbol of independence. Outnumbered, their troops were badly defeated in 43 A.D. After their victory, the people proclaimed Trung Trac to be their ruler and renamed her 'Trung Vuong' or 'She-king Trung.' For the next three years the Trung sisters engaged in constant battles with the Chinese government in Vietnam. The Trung sisters - of whom Nhi proved to be the better warrior - liberated six-five fortresses. These women led a people's army of 80,000 which drove the Chinese out of Viet Nam in 40 A.D.

From among those who came forward to fight the Chinese, the Trung sisters chose thirty-six women, including their mother, and trained them to be generals. The Trungs gathered an army of 80,000 people to help drive the Chinese from their lands. The Vietnamese had been annexed by the Han empire and had been suffering under the harsh rule of Chinese governors. Two of the most popular national heroines are the Trung sisters: Trung Trac and Trung Nhị (c. In Vietnam women have always been in the forefront in resisting foreign domination. Its capital city has been Hanoi since the reunification of North and South Vietnam in 1976. The country is bordered by China to the north, Laos to the northwest, Cambodia to the southwest, and the South China Sea to the east. The name Vietnam translates as 'Southern Viet' (synonymous with the much older term Nam Viet) it was first officially adopted in 1802 by Emperor Gia Long, and was adopted again in 1945 with the founding of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam under Ho Chi Minh. With an estimated 90.5 million inhabitants as of 2014, it is the world's 13th-most-populous country, and the eighth-most-populous Asian country. Vietnam is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia.

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