Trưng sisters
| Trưng Nữ Vương 徵女王 | |||||||||
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The Trung sisters chase away the enemy (Dong Ho folk painting) | |||||||||
| Queen of Lingnam | |||||||||
| Reign | 40–43 | ||||||||
| Predecessor | Established First Era of Northern Domination | ||||||||
| Successor | Disestablished Second Era of Northern Domination | ||||||||
| Born | c. 14 CE | ||||||||
| Died | c. 43 CE (aged 29–30) Lingnan | ||||||||
| Spouse | Thi Sách | ||||||||
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| Chinese | 徵女王 | ||||||||||||
| Literal meaning | Trưng Queen | ||||||||||||
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| Vietnamese alphabet | Trưng Nữ Vương | ||||||||||||
| Chữ Hán | 徵女王 | ||||||||||||
| Trưng sisters | |
| Vietnamese | Hai Bà Trưng |
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| Hán-Nôm | 𠄩婆徵 |
| Literal meaning | Two ladies Trưng |
| History of Vietnam |
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| Vietnam portal |
The Trưng sisters (Vietnamese: Hai Bà Trưng (Vietnamese pronunciation: [haj1 ɓa2 t͡ɕɯŋ1]), 𠄩婆徵, literally "Two Ladies [named] Trưng", c. 14 – c. 43) were Luoyue military leaders who ruled for three years after commanding a rebellion of Luoyue tribes and other tribes in AD 40 against the first Chinese domination of Vietnam. They are regarded as national heroines of Vietnam. Their names were Trưng Trắc (Vietnamese pronunciation: [t͡ɕɯŋ1 t͡ɕǎk5]; chữ Hán: 徵側; Chinese pinyin: Zhēng Cè; Wade–Giles: Cheng1 Ts'e4; Old Chinese: *trəŋ-[ts]rək) and Trưng Nhị (Vietnamese pronunciation: [t͡ɕɯŋ1 ɲiː6]; chữ Hán: 徵貳; Chinese pinyin: Zhēng Èr ; Wade–Giles: Cheng1 Erh4; Old Chinese: *trəŋni[j]-s). Trưng Trắc was the first female monarch in Vietnam, as well as the first queen in the history of Vietnam (Lý Chiêu Hoàng was the last woman to take the reign and is the only empress regnant), and she was accorded the title Queen Trưng (chữ Quốc ngữ: Trưng Nữ vương, chữ Hán: 徵女王) in the Đại Việt sử ký toàn thư.
The sisters were born in Jiaozhi (Giao Chỉ), a commandery of the Chinese Han dynasty in modern-day northern Vietnam. The dates of their births are unknown, but Trưng Trắc was older than Trưng Nhị. The exact dates of their deaths are also unknown but both died around 43 AD after battling against the punitive expedition force led by Eastern Han general Ma Yuan.