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AnnamFormer country of Southeast Asia, incorporated in Vietnam in 1946 as Central Vietnam. Its capital was Hué. A Bronze Age civilization was flourishing in the area when China conquered it in about 111 BC. The Chinese named their conquest An-Nam, ‘peaceful south’. Independent from 1428, Annam signed a treaty with France in 1787 and became a French protectorate, part of Indochina in 1884. During World War II, Annam was occupied by Japan. |
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The French, for instance, were never willing to subdivide Indochina into Annam and Cochin-China (now, together, called Vietnam), Laos and Cambodia. Muslim women are going to suffer if the civil courts are completely abolished," Annam Al-Soltany, a lawyer and an activist with the Progressive Women's League, told Religion News Service. While France ruled the south as a colony (Cochin-China), Tonkin in the north and Annam in the centre were protectorates, as were Cambodia and Laos. |
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