Mạc Đăng Dung made Hải Dương his Dương Kinh and built palaces in his home village of Cổ Trai, a second capital near the sea linked by river to Phố Hiến and Thăng Long.
Founding
Dương Kinh founded at Cổ Trai
- 1527
- Southeast Asia
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