Annam
Americannoun
noun
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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
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
The Chinese ruled Tonkin and northern Annam for more than the 1,000 years, until they were expelled in the 10th century by native Annamites who were themselves of part-Chinese stock.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Viet Nam nation is a recent French consolidation of three ancient provinces: Tonkin, Annam and Cochin China.
From Time Magazine Archive
Ancestry and spirit-worship, underlying various kinds of Buddhism; religious sentiment weak in Annam, strong in Tibet; thinly diffused in China.
From Man, Past and Present by Haddon, Alfred Court
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