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Caodaism
Caodaism is a syncretic religion founded in southern Vietnam in 1926, with its Holy See at Tây Ninh. It combines elements of Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism and Christianity, and honours figures such as Victor Hugo as saints. In the late colonial period and under the State of Vietnam it raised its own armed forces, until Ngô Đình Diệm subdued them in 1955.
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