Names of Vietnam
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Throughout its history, Vietnam has been referred to by many names, either for the whole country or parts of it.
Plaque of the Embassy of the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam in Beijing, being inscribed in standard Vietnamese and Chinese.
The endonym Vietnam was supposedly coined by 16th century poet Nguyễn Bỉnh Khiêm.
![10th century brick with Chữ Hán inscription: 大越國軍城塼 "Brick [to build] the Đại Việt State's military forts"](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/ba/%C4%90%E1%BA%A1i_Vi%E1%BB%87t_qu%E1%BB%91c_qu%C3%A2n_th%C3%A0nh_chuy%C3%AAn.JPG/500px-%C4%90%E1%BA%A1i_Vi%E1%BB%87t_qu%E1%BB%91c_qu%C3%A2n_th%C3%A0nh_chuy%C3%AAn.JPG)
10th century brick with Chữ Hán inscription: 大越國軍城塼 "Brick [to build] the Đại Việt State's military forts"
Scholar consensus believes that the exonym of Yue, Yueh, and Viet peoples are related to their notorious axes. A bronze ax from Dong Son burial site, Thanh Hoa, North-central Vietnam, dated 500 BC.
Lê dynasty
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The Lê dynasty, also known in historiography as the Later Lê dynasty, was the longest-ruling Vietnamese dynasty, having ruled Đại Việt from 1428 to 1789 with an interregnum between 1527 and 1533. The
Quế Lâm Ngự Chế, carved texts by Emperor Lê Thái Tông commemorating a campaign against rebels in Sơn La, 1440.
Administrative division of Lê dynasty and number of armed forces stationed in each regions in 1471
Imperial seal of the Lê dynasty, 1479 version.
Mông Đồng illustration, warship of Lê dynasty