Annamese
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Origin of Annamese
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The Annamese mountain chain sloped and plunged from the Laotian border eastward into the tight flatiron plains that hugged the coast, generating white water rivers and misty waterfalls.
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The 3,600 members of National League of Families of American Prisoners and Missing in Southeast Asia still believe there may be loved ones locked in prisons hidden somewhere in the impenetrable Annamese Cordillera.
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The Vietnamese wanted to incorporate the southern province of Cochin China, because, they said, its people were mainly Annamese.
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Some of the carvings there depict battles between the Khmers of ancient Cambodia and the Annamese, forebears of present-day Vietnamese.
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This eastern region was occupied in the 17th century by the Annamese, who in the 18th century absorbed the western provinces.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 5 "Clervaux" to "Cockade" by Various
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