City (pop., 1992 est.: 219,149), central Vietnam.
The seat of the Chinese military authority in the kingdom of Nam Viet с 200 BC, it passed to the Chams с AD 200. In 1306 it was ceded to Dai Viet (Vietnam). It is the site of the imperial citadel, from which the Nguyen family reigned from the mid-16th to the mid-20th century. It was occupied by the Japanese (1940–45). It became the seat of a committee of noncommunist Vietnamese in April 1947 but lost this role in 1949, when the newly declared state of Vietnam chose Saigon (see Ho Chi Minh City ) as its capital. Hue was largely destroyed during the 1968 Tet Offensive of the Vietnam War ; it has since been rebuilt.