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Quy Hop is the name of a historic border post in the mountainous western part of Nghe-tinh Province. It is also one of the names of the trail that has been used since ancient times to cross the mountains between the northern coast of Vietnam and Laos. Quy Hop was formerly an important frontier district (chau) on the Vietnamese-Lao border. When it was still an administrative unit, its territory encompassed part of present-day Quang-binh District, part of Huong-khe District and some hamlets scattered in the Truong Son mountain chain, which separated the Vietnamese settlements on its eastern side from the Lao settlements to the west of the cordillera. Quy Hop ceased to be a territorial unit after the Vietnamese revolution of 1945, when frontier districts were eliminated from the administrative system.
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