Tongking
- a variation of Tonkin.
Example Sentences
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With the penetration of the French, it was divided into the colonial units of Tongking, Annam and Cochinchina.
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
Historically, the North, known as Tongking, and the South, known as Annam, were separate.
From Time Magazine Archive
Hanoi is 923 the seat of the general government of Indo-China, of the resident-superior of Tongking, and of a bishop, who is vicar-apostolic of central Tongking.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 8 "Haller, Albrecht" to "Harmonium" by Various
She was henceforward left in quiet possession of Tongking, a principality which China had regarded as a vassal and endeavoured to protect.
From The Awakening of China by Martin, W. A. P. (William Alexander Parsons)
