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Names of Ho Chi Minh City
The city now known as Ho Chi Minh City ( ) has gone by several different names during its history, reflecting settlement by different ethnic, cultural and political groups. Originally known as ''Prey Nôkôr'' while a part of the Khmer Empire,〔 it came to be dubbed ''Sài Gòn'' () informally by Vietnamese settlers fleeing the Trịnh–Nguyễn War to the north. In time, control of the city and the area passed to the Vietnamese, who gave the city the name of ''(unicode:Gia Định)''. This name remained until the time of French conquest in the 1860s, when the occupying force adopted the name ''Saigon'' for the city, a westernized form of the traditional name.〔 The current name was given after the Fall of Saigon in 1975, and honors Hồ Chí Minh, the first leader of North Vietnam.〔 Even today, however, the informal name of ''Sài Gòn'' remains in daily speech both domestically and internationally, especially among the Vietnamese diaspora and local southern Vietnamese.
== Khmer name ==
The area where present-day Ho Chi Minh City is located was likely inhabited long since prehistory; the empire of Funan and later Chenla maintained a presence in the Mekong Delta for centuries. The city was known as ''Prey Nôkôr'' ((クメール語:ព្រៃនគរ)) to the Khmer Empire, which likely maintained a settlement centuries before its rise in the 11th and 12th centuries.〔"At the height of the Khmer Empire's economic and political strength, during the eleventh and twelfth centuries, its rulers established and fostered the growth of Prey Nokor() It is possible that there already had been a settlement at this location in the Mekong marshes for some centuries, depending, as Prey Nokor did, on the handling of goods traded between the countries bordering the South China Sea and the interior provinces of the empire." 〕 The most popular interpretation of the name, and one supported by former Cambodian King Norodom Sihanouk, suggests that the name means "forest city" or "forest kingdom"—''prey'' meaning forest or jungle, and ''nôkôr'' being a Khmer word of Sanskrit origin meaning city or kingdom.〔"The Khmer name for Saigon, by the way, is Prey Nokor; prey means forest, nokor home or city." 〕 The name ' ((クメール語:ក្រុងព្រៃនគរ); "Prey Nôkôr City") is currently used to refer to Ho Chi Minh City in the Khmer language.
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