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The Committee for Overseas Vietnamese Affairs (COVA) has granted a certificate of citizenship to Ly Xuong Can, the 31st generation descendant of King Ly Thai To and the 26th generation descendant of Prince Ly Tong Tuong at a ceremony in Hanoi on June 26.

To mark the occasion, the National Political Publishing House has announced they will reprint a book by a Korea author on Prince Ly Long Tuong, who moved to the Republic of Korea in the 13th century to celebrate the 1,000th anniversary of Thang Long-Hanoi.

According to documentation in Vietnam and the Republic of Korea, where the prince’s descendants still live today, Prince Ly Long Tuong, born in 1174, was the seventh son of King Ly Anh Tong who reigned from 1138-1175, the brother of King Ly Cao Tong and the uncle of King Ly Hue Tong.

He grew up when the Ly dynasty was almost at an end when the Ly was replaced with the Tran dynasty in 1226, Prince Ly Long Tuong fled by boat with several hundreds of his followers northwards to Korea.

The Prince became a general under the Korean King and helped to successfully defeat two Mongol invasions.

Based on this documentation, Korean author Kang Moo Hak wrote the 500-page novel “Prince Ly Long Tuong”, featuring a volatile period of Vietnamese history as well as the ups and downs of a historical figure whose name has not yet been acknowledged in the country’s history.

The 23-chapter book was translated into Vietnamese and was first published by the National Political Publishing House in 1996.

Source: VOV