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Degar

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The Degar, also known as Montagnard, are the indigenous peoples of the Central Highlands of Vietnam. [1]

74 relations: Apocalypse Now, Austroasiatic languages, Austronesian languages, Đắk Lắk Province, Đắk Nông Province, Đắk Sơn massacre, Đồng Nai Province, Bahnar people, Bahnaric languages, Bảo Đại, Bình Phước Province, Bình Thuận Province, Brau people, Bru people, Catholic Church, Central Highlands, Vietnam, Chamic languages, Chams, Cho Ro people, Churu people, Contras, Cor people, Dieu Python movement, French Indochina, Georges Condominas, Gia Lai Province, Gie Trieng people, Greensboro, North Carolina, H're people, Ho Chi Minh trail, Indigenous peoples, Jarai people, Katu people, Katuic languages, Khánh Hòa Province, Khmer people, Koho people, Kok Ksor, Kon Tum Province, Lâm Đồng Province, List of ethnic groups in Vietnam, Malayo-Polynesian languages, Mạ people, Missionary, Mnong people, Montagnard Foundation, Inc., Nam tiến, Ninh Thuận Province, North Carolina, North Vietnam, ..., Protestantism, Provinces of Vietnam, Quảng Nam Province, Quảng Ngãi Province, Quảng Trị Province, Rade people, Raglai people, Rơ Măm people, South Vietnam, Special Forces (United States Army), Stieng people, Ta Oi people, Tai languages, Thừa Thiên-Huế Province, The Green Berets (film), United Front for the Liberation of Oppressed Races, United States Army Center of Military History, Viet Cong, Vietnam, Vietnam War, Vietnamese language, Vietnamese people, Xo Dang people, 1954 Geneva Conference. Expand index (24 more) »

Apocalypse Now

Apocalypse Now is a 1979 American epic war film directed, produced, and co-written by Francis Ford Coppola.

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Austroasiatic languages

The Austroasiatic languages, formerly known as Mon–Khmer, are a large language family of Mainland Southeast Asia, also scattered throughout India, Bangladesh, Nepal and the southern border of China, with around 117 million speakers.

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Austronesian languages

The Austronesian languages are a language family that is widely dispersed throughout Maritime Southeast Asia, Madagascar and the islands of the Pacific Ocean, with a few members in continental Asia.

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Đắk Lắk Province

Đắk Lắk is a province of Vietnam. The name is also spelled Đắc Lắc, which is more in keeping with Vietnamese spelling, and occasionally Darlac, but the official spelling is Đắk Lắk. It is located in Vietnam's Central Highlands, and is home to a high number of indigenous people who are not ethnically Vietnamese (Việt).

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Đắk Nông Province

Đắk Nông, also Ðắc Nông, is a province of Vietnam.

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Đắk Sơn massacre

The Đắk Sơn Massacre was a massacre committed by the Viet Cong during the Vietnam War, in the village of Đắk Sơn, Đắk Lắk Province, South Vietnam.

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Đồng Nai Province

Đồng Nai is a province in the Southeast region of Vietnam, located east and northeast of Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon).

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Bahnar people

The Bahnar (also spelled Ba Na) are an ethnic group of Vietnam living primarily in the Central Highland provinces of Gia Lai and Kon Tum, as well as the coastal provinces of Bình Định and Phú Yên.

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Bahnaric languages

The Bahnaric languages are a group of about thirty Austroasiatic languages spoken by about 700,000 people in Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos.

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Bảo Đại

Bảo Đại (lit. "keeper of greatness", 22 October 1913 – 30 July 1997), born Nguyễn Phúc Vĩnh Thụy, was the 13th and final emperor of the Nguyễn dynasty, the last ruling family of Vietnam.

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Bình Phước Province

Bình Phước is a province of Vietnam.

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Bình Thuận Province

Bình Thuận is a province of Vietnam.

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Brau people

The Brau people (Người Brâu) are an ethnic group living in Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam.

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Bru people

The Bru (also Brao, Bruu, Brou, or Bru-Vân Kiều; Người Bru - Vân Kiều; Thai: บรู) (which literally means "people living in the woods") are an ethnic group living in Thailand, Laos, and Vietnam.

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Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with more than 1.299 billion members worldwide.

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Central Highlands, Vietnam

Tây Nguyên, translated as Western Highlands and sometimes also called Central Highlands, is one of the regions of Vietnam.

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Chamic languages

The Chamic languages, also known as Aceh–Chamic and Achinese–Chamic, are a group of ten languages spoken in Aceh (Sumatra, Indonesia) and in parts of Cambodia, Vietnam and Hainan, China.

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Chams

The Chams, or Cham people (Cham: Urang Campa, người Chăm or người Chàm, ជនជាតិចាម), are an ethnic group of Austronesian origin in Southeast Asia.

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Cho Ro people

The Chơ Ro (or Chau Ro, Do Ro; Vietnamese: người Chơ Ro) are a Mon–Khmer people in Vietnam.

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Churu people

The Churu (or Chru; called Chu Ru or người Chu Ru in Vietnamese, người meaning "people") people live in Lâm Đồng Province, in Vietnam's Central Highlands.

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Contras

The Contras were the various U.S.-backed and funded right-wing rebel groups that were active from 1979 to the early 1990s in opposition to the socialist Sandinista Junta of National Reconstruction government in Nicaragua.

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Cor people

The Cor (or Co, Col, Cùa; Vietnamese: Người Co) are an ethnic group of Vietnam.

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Dieu Python movement

In 1937, a Vietnamese Montagnard village chief by the name of Sam Bam announced that his daughter had given birth to a python.

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French Indochina

French Indochina (previously spelled as French Indo-China) (French: Indochine française; Lao: ສະຫະພັນອິນດູຈີນ; Khmer: សហភាពឥណ្ឌូចិន; Vietnamese: Đông Dương thuộc Pháp/東洋屬法,, frequently abbreviated to Đông Pháp; Chinese: 法属印度支那), officially known as the Indochinese Union (French: Union indochinoise) after 1887 and the Indochinese Federation (French: Fédération indochinoise) after 1947, was a grouping of French colonial territories in Southeast Asia.

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Georges Condominas

Georges Louis Condominas (29 June 1921 – 17 July 2011) was a French cultural anthropologist.

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Gia Lai Province

Gia Lai is a province in the Central Highlands of Vietnam.

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Gie Trieng people

The Gie Trieng people (người Giẻ Triêng) are an ethnic group in Vietnam.

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Greensboro, North Carolina

Greensboro (formerly Greensborough) is a city in the U.S. state of North Carolina.

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H're people

The H're people (Vietnamese: người Hrê) are an ethnic group of Vietnam, speaking a language in the Mon–Khmer family.

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Ho Chi Minh trail

The Hồ Chí Minh trail (also known in Vietnam as the "Trường Sơn trail") was a logistical system that ran from the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam) to the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam) through the kingdoms of Laos and Cambodia.

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Indigenous peoples

Indigenous peoples, also known as first peoples, aboriginal peoples or native peoples, are ethnic groups who are the pre-colonial original inhabitants of a given region, in contrast to groups that have settled, occupied or colonized the area more recently.

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Jarai people

Jarai people or Jarais (in Vietnamese Người Gia Rai, Gia Rai, or Gia-rai; in Khmer ចារ៉ាយ - Chareay) are an ethnic group in Vietnam's Central Highlands (Gia Lai and Kon Tum Provinces with some others in Đắk Lắk Province), as well as in the Cambodian northeast Province of Ratanakiri.

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Katu people

The Katu people (also Co Tu, Ca Tang; người Cơ Tu) are an ethnic group of about 83,600 who live in eastern Laos and central Vietnam.

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Katuic languages

The fifteen Katuic languages form a branch of the Austroasiatic languages spoken by about 1.3 million people in Southeast Asia.

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Khánh Hòa Province

Khánh Hòa is a province of Vietnam located in the South Central Coast.

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Khmer people

Khmer people (ខ្មែរ,, Northern Khmer pronunciation) are a Southeast Asian ethnic group native to Cambodia, accounting for 97.6% of the country's 15.9 million people.

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Koho people

The K'Ho, Cơ Ho, or Koho are an ethnic group living in the Lâm Đồng province of Vietnam's Central Highlands.

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Kok Ksor

Kok Ksor (born 1945 in Gia Lai Province, in the Central Highlands of Vietnam), is a member of the Jarai ethnic group and the President of the Montagnard Foundation, Inc., an organization, begun as an RSO at the University of Chicago, which states that its mission is to preserve the lives, rights and culture of the Montagnard people.

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Kon Tum Province

Kon Tum Province lies in the Central Highlands region of Vietnam and shares borders with Laos and Cambodia.

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Lâm Đồng Province

Lâm Đồng is a province located in the Central Highlands (Tây Nguyên) region of Vietnam.

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List of ethnic groups in Vietnam

Vietnam is a multiethnic country with over fifty distinct groups (54 are recognized by the Vietnamese government), each with its own language, lifestyle, and cultural heritage (Ethnic groups in Vietnam).

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Malayo-Polynesian languages

The Malayo-Polynesian languages are a subgroup of the Austronesian languages, with approximately 385.5 million speakers.

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Mạ people

The Mạ or Maa are a Mon–Khmer-speaking people in Vietnam (population 33,338 in 1999).

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Missionary

A missionary is a member of a religious group sent into an area to proselytize and/or perform ministries of service, such as education, literacy, social justice, health care, and economic development.

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Mnong people

The Mnong or Munong (Vietnamese: Mơ-nông) are an ethnic group from Vietnam (92,451 in 1999) and Cambodia.

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Montagnard Foundation, Inc.

Montagnard Foundation, Inc. (Tổ chức Quỹ người Thượng) is an anti-communist organization that claims to protect the rights of the Montagnard people.

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Nam tiến

Nam tiến (lit. "southward advance" or "march to the south") refers to the southward expansion of the territory of Vietnam from the 11th century to the mid-18th century.

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Ninh Thuận Province

Ninh Thuận is a province in the South Central Coast region of Vietnam (sometimes seen as part of the Southeast region).

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North Carolina

North Carolina is a U.S. state in the southeastern region of the United States.

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North Vietnam

North Vietnam, officially the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV) (Việt Nam Dân Chủ Cộng Hòa), was a country in Southeast Asia from 1945 to 1976, although it did not achieve widespread recognition until 1954.

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Protestantism

Protestantism is the second largest form of Christianity with collectively more than 900 million adherents worldwide or nearly 40% of all Christians.

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Provinces of Vietnam

On the First Tier, Vietnam is divided into 58 provinces (tỉnh) and 5 municipalities (thành phố trực thuộc trung ương).

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Quảng Nam Province

Quảng Nam is a province in the South Central Coast region of Vietnam.

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Quảng Ngãi Province

Quảng Ngãi is a province in the South Central Coast region of Vietnam, on the coast of East Sea.

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Quảng Trị Province

Quảng Trị is a province in the North Central Coast region of Vietnam, north of the former imperial capital of Huế.

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Rade people

The Rade (also Ê Đê or Rhade) are an Austronesian ethnic group of southern Vietnam (population 270,348 in 1999).

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Raglai people

The Raglai (or Rai, Trong Giai, La Vang) are an ethnic group of Vietnam.

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Rơ Măm people

The Rơ Măm people are a small ethnic group in Vietnam (352 in 1999).

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South Vietnam

South Vietnam, officially the Republic of Vietnam (RVN, Việt Nam Cộng Hòa), was a country that existed from 1955 to 1975 and comprised the southern half of what is now the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.

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Special Forces (United States Army)

The United States Army Special Forces, colloquially known as the Green Berets due to their distinctive service headgear, are a special operations force tasked with five primary missions: unconventional warfare (the original and most important mission of Special Forces), foreign internal defense, special reconnaissance, direct action, and counter-terrorism.

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Stieng people

The Stieng people (Xtiêng) are an ethnic group of Vietnam and Cambodia.

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Ta Oi people

The Tà Ôi is an ethnic group of Vietnam (34,960 in 1999) and Laos.

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Tai languages

The Tai or Zhuang–Tai languages (ภาษาไท or ภาษาไต, transliteration: or) are a branch of the Kra–Dai language family.

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Thừa Thiên-Huế Province

Thừa Thiên-Huế is a province in the North Central Coast region of Vietnam, approximately in the centre of the country.

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The Green Berets (film)

The Green Berets is a 1968 American war film set in Vietnam featuring John Wayne, Jim Hutton, David Janssen, Aldo Ray, Patrick Wayne, and Jack Soo, based on the 1965 book by Robin Moore.

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United Front for the Liberation of Oppressed Races

The United Front for the Liberation of Oppressed Races (FULRO, Front Unifié de Lutte des Races Opprimées, Mặt trận Thống nhất Đấu tranh của các Sắc tộc bị Áp bức) was an organization within Vietnam, whose objective was autonomy for the Degar (Montagnard) tribes.

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United States Army Center of Military History

The United States Army Center of Military History (CMH) is a directorate within the Office of the Administrative Assistant to the Secretary of the Army.

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Viet Cong

The National Liberation Front of South Vietnam (Mặt trận Dân tộc Giải phóng miền Nam Việt Nam) also known as the Việt Cộng was a mass political organization in South Vietnam and Cambodia with its own army – the People's Liberation Armed Forces of South Vietnam (PLAF) – that fought against the United States and South Vietnamese governments during the Vietnam War, eventually emerging on the winning side.

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Vietnam

Vietnam, officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia.

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Vietnam War

The Vietnam War (Chiến tranh Việt Nam), also known as the Second Indochina War, and in Vietnam as the Resistance War Against America (Kháng chiến chống Mỹ) or simply the American War, was a conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975.

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Vietnamese language

Vietnamese (Tiếng Việt) is an Austroasiatic language that originated in Vietnam, where it is the national and official language.

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Vietnamese people

The Vietnamese people or the Kinh people (người Việt or người Kinh), are an ethnic group originating from present-day northern Vietnam.

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Xo Dang people

The Xo Dang (or Xe Dang, Sedang; Người Xơ Đăng) are an ethnic group of Vietnam.

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1954 Geneva Conference

The Geneva Conference was a conference among several nations that took place in Geneva, Switzerland from April 26 – July 20, 1954.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degar

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