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Annam

American  
[uh-nam] / əˈnæm /
Or Anam

noun

  1. a former kingdom and French protectorate along the E coast of French Indochina: now part of Vietnam.


Annam British  
/ ˈænæm, æˈnæm /

noun

  1. a former kingdom (3rd century–1428), empire (1428–1884), and French protectorate (1884–1945) of E Indochina: now part of Vietnam

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Also in attendance were MBK fellows such as 17-year-old Daniel Annam, who traveled to Oakland from Staten Island, New York, to be honored for the work he’d done in his community.

From The Guardian Feb. 20, 2019

In Paris he put the prince under the tutelage of former Annam Governor Eugene Charles.

From Time Magazine Archive

Historically, the North, known as Tongking, and the South, known as Annam, were separate.

From Time Magazine Archive

He asserts that "historically, the North, known as Tongking, and the South, known as Annam, were separate," and that "the North and South each have a viable economic base."

From Time Magazine Archive

Annamese, or, to use the native term, the Giao-chi, are the predominant people not only in Annam but in the lowland and cultivated parts of Tongking and in Cochin-China and southern Cambodia.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 "Anjar" to "Apollo" by Various

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