Trần Thượng Xuyên, Ming commander of Gaozhou, Leizhou and Lianzhou, entered the Cần Giờ mouth and settled his people at Bàn Lân on the Đồng Nai river. Their island town of Cù lao Phố became the busiest port of the south for nearly a century.
Migration
Trần Thượng Xuyên's Ming loyalists settle Biên Hòa
- 1679
- Southeast Asia
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