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The Lịch sử nước An Nam (History of Annam) is a history text written by Benedict Thiện in 1659, covering the history of Vietnam from early mythology to the year 1593. [1] Benedict Thiện was a Vietnamese Catholic pastor and a member of the Society of Jesus in 17th-century Hanoi. He summarised Vietnamese royal chronicles with ...
The Mechanics and Crafts of the People of Annam (French: Technique du peuple Annamite; Vietnamese: Kỹ thuật của người An Nam, chữ Nôm: 技術𧵑𠊛安南) is a multi-volume colonial manuscript created by Henri Joseph Oger (1885-1936), [1] a colonial official who commissioned artists to record the culture of the Annamese (Vietnamese) in Hanoi and the area around it during the ...
In An Nam chí lược, Lê Tắc recounted the history and other aspects of his country Đại Việt from its beginning to the reign of the Trần dynasty. [3] The title of the book literally means Abbreviated Records of An Nam with An Nam (Pacified South) was the Chinese name for Vietnam during the Tang dynasty, thus An Nam chí lược was written with a Chinese bias. [2]
Annam means "Pacified South" in Sino-Vietnamese, the toponym being derived from the Chinese An Nan (Chinese: 安南; pinyin: Ānnán). [3] In the history of Vietnam, the designation is one of several given by the Chinese to the Tonkin, the core territory of modern-day Vietnam surrounding the city of Hanoi, which included land from the Gulf of Tonkin to the mountains which surround the plains ...
The Four Great Treasures of Annam (Vietnamese: An Nam tứ đại khí, chữ Hán: 安南四大器), were four bronzes of the cultures of Lý and Trần dynasties of Vietnam: the Báo Thiên Pagoda, the Quy Điền Bell, the Buddha Statues of Quỳnh Lâm Temple and the Phổ Minh Caldron. [1] None of these artifacts survived.
Communist Party of Annam (Vietnamese: An Nam cộng sản Đảng, chữ Hán: 安南共産党) was a Vietnamese political party that existed from August 1929 until February 1930. (Annam was the common name of Vietnam at that time.)
Nông Đức Mạnh (Vietnamese: [nəwŋm ɗɨ́k mâjŋ̟ˀ] ⓘ; born 11 September 1940 [1]) is a Vietnamese politician who served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam, the most powerful position in the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, from 22 April 2001 to 19 January 2011. [2]
Additionally, some Vietnamese names can only be differentiated via context or with their corresponding chữ Hán, such as 南 ("south") or 男 ("men", "boy"), both are read as Nam. Anyone applying for Vietnamese nationality must also adopt a Vietnamese name. [2] Vietnamese names have corresponding Hán character adopted early on during Chinese ...