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Hội An Ancient Town

Riverside trading port on the Thu Bồn River whose old street plan, timber merchant houses, Chinese assembly halls and Japanese covered bridge survive largely intact. Its decline in the 19th century, when trade moved to Da Nang, is what preserved it.

Dated events and their evidence

• 200 CE disputed
  Cham trading port on the Thu Bồn estuary (from the 2nd century) source
• 1593 CE mainstream
  Japanese merchants begin the covered bridge, Chùa Cầu (finished 1595) source
• 1600 CE mainstream
  Chinese and Japanese traders settle; one of Southeast Asia's busiest ports (early 17th c.) source
• 1999 CE mainstream
  inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site source

Where

15.8771° N, 108.3286° E

Sources

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%E1%BB%99i_An_Old_Town
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_Bridge

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