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  2. History of Vietnam - Wikipedia

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    Vietnam's ethnic mosaic results from the peopling process in which various peoples came and settled the territory, leading to the modern state of Vietnam by many stages, often separated by thousands of years over a duration of tens of thousands of years. Vietnam's entire history, thus, is an embroidery of polyethnicity. [17]

  3. Decolonisation of Asia - Wikipedia

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    The French established their most lucrative and substantial colony in Indochina in 1862, eventually occupying the present-day areas of Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia by 1887. Japan's first colony was the island of Taiwan , occupied in 1874 and officially ceded by the Qing emperor in 1894.

  4. Decolonization - Wikipedia

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    In late 1946, Vietnam of French Indochina withdrew from the French Union, leading to the Indochina War (1946–54). France later recognized independence of Vietnam , Laos , and Cambodia in 1949. France also recognized the unity of Vietnam and supported the anti-communist faction in this country against the expansion of communism in the name of ...

  5. Timeline of Vietnamese history - Wikipedia

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    This is a timeline of Vietnamese history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in Vietnam and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see History of Vietnam. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. Prehistory ...

  6. Vietnam under Chinese rule - Wikipedia

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    Vietnam under Chinese rule or Bắc thuộc (北屬, lit. "belonging to the north") [1] [2] (111 BCE–939 CE, 1407–1428 CE) refers to four historical periods when ...

  7. Vietnam - Wikipedia

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    Vietnam, [e] [f] officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, [g] [h] is a country at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of about 331,000 square kilometres (128,000 sq mi) and a population of over 100 million, making it the world's fifteenth-most populous country.

  8. The declaration of independence of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (Vietnamese: Tuyên ngôn độc lập Việt Nam Dân chủ Cộng hòa) was written by Hồ Chí Minh, and announced in public at the Ba Đình flower garden in Hanoi on 2 September 1945.

  9. August Revolution - Wikipedia

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    All of Vietnam was under the French colonial rule from 1883 until the Japanese coup d'état of March 1945. In 1887, the French created the Indochinese Union including the three separately-ruled territories of Tonkin, Annam, and Cochinchina, which were parts of Vietnam, and the newly acquired Cambodia; Laos was created at a later time. [7]