Annam

American

[uh-nam] / əˈnæm /

Or Anam

noun

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

Annam British

/ ˈænæm, æˈnæm /

noun

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

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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

With the penetration of the French, it was divided into the colonial units of Tongking, Annam and Cochinchina.

From Time Magazine Archive

He was born in Annam 40 years ago.

From Time Magazine Archive

When the French officer Rivière was killed in an ambuscade in May, 1883, Jules Ferry sent heavy reinforcements and forced the King of Annam to acknowledge a French protectorate.

From A History of the Third French Republic by C. H. C. (Charles Henry Conrad) Wright

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