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English: French map depicting Indochina and the areas designated as the "French zone of influence" in eastern Siam, in accordance with the Anglo-French Declaration of 1896 and subsequent Entente Cordiale in 1904. According to the agreement, Britain and France agreed to preserve the independence of Siam and respect its territorial integrity ...
A French government official and Lao children in Luang Prabang, 1887. After the acquisition of Cambodia in 1863, French explorers led by Ernest Doudart de Lagrée went on several expeditions along the Mekong River to find possible trade relations for the territories of French Cambodia and Cochinchina (modern-day Southern Vietnam) to the south.
1886 map of Indochina, from the Scottish Geographical Magazine. In Indian sources, the earliest name connected with Southeast Asia is Yāvadvīpa []. [1] Another possible early name of mainland Southeast Asia was Suvarṇabhūmi ("land of gold"), [1] [2] a toponym, that appears in many ancient Indian literary sources and Buddhist texts, [3] but which, along with Suvarṇadvīpa ("island" or ...
French–Vietnamese relations started during the early 17th century with the arrival of the Jesuit missionary Alexandre de Rhodes.Around this time, Vietnam had only just begun its "Southward"—"Nam Tiến", the occupation of the Mekong Delta, a territory being part of the Khmer Empire and to a lesser extent, the kingdom of Champa which they had defeated in 1471.
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The First Indochina War (called the Indochina War in France and the French War in Vietnam) began after the end of World War II with the War in Vietnam (1945–1946), which acted as the precursor to the First Indochina War. The conflict officially began in 1946 and lasted until the French defeat in 1954.
From the 1860s France began establishing a presence in the region, initially in modern Cambodia and Vietnam, and the colony of French Indochina was created in 1887. [3] France and China had already determined the border between Tonkin (northern Vietnam) and China in 1887 following the Sino-French War . [ 3 ]
Time in Laos is given by Indochina Time (ICT) . Laos does not observe daylight saving time. Laos shares the same time zone with Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam, Christmas Island, and Western Indonesia. [1]