Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Gia Long" in Vietnamese language version.
{{Chú thích sách}}: Quản lý CS1: nhiều tên: danh sách tác giả (liên kết)The Huế area had been the historic homeland of the Nguyễn family. Yet this appears to have been a secondary factor in its selection in 1802. According to Minh-mạng, Gia Long had wanted to make the protectorate capital of Nghệ An his imperial capital. He had been dissuaded from doing so by Nguyễn Văn Nhân. Huế was the center of the kingdom, and its geographical centrality had earned it its role.
{{Chú thích sách}}: Đã bỏ qua tham số không rõ |authors= (trợ giúp)"The debate in Vietnam over the merits and disadvantages of this shift of capitals in 1802 has never ended. Some Vietnamese historians have argued that the change was disastrous, that the mountains of central Vietnam isolated Hue from the rest of the country. This effect was exacerbated by Hue's lack of a position on a critical river system. In Vietnamese history the mountainous central area had specialized in harboring successful rebel movements but only short-lived dynasties. Other historians have argued with some ingenuity that the change was culturally beneficial. Vietnamese literati, instead of concentrating themselves in one northern city, lived after 1802 in all parts of Vietnam. Central and southern Vietnamese writer like Nguyễn Du (Vietnam's greatest poet, who however came from ther north central area and was regarded by Minh-mạng as a northerner) and Nguyễn Đình Chiểu thrived under the Huế-based dynasty, while northern writers-like Cao Bá Quát and Hồ Xuân Hương- wrote with a greater, more iconoclastic freedom. Possibly there is truth in both opinions".