French Annam
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French protectorate encompassing the central region of Vietnam, 1883-1948
Key facts
- Status
- Protectorate of France ; constituent territory of French Indochina
- Capital
- Huế
- Common languages
- Cham , Bahnar , Rade , Jarai , Stieng , Mnong , Koho , Chinese (Notably Cantonese , Hakka ), French, Vietnamese
- Religion
- Mahayana Buddhism , Confucianism , Taoism , Catholicism , Folk religion , Hinduism , Islam
- Demonym
- Annamite
- Government
- Absolute monarchy under indirect rule (de jure) under direct rule (de facto; after 1897)
- 1886 1888
- Charles Dillon
- 1947 1949
- Henri Pierre Joseph Marie Lebris
- 1884 1885
- Hàm Nghi
- 1889 1907
- Thành Thái
- 1916 1925
- Khải Định
- 1925 1945
- Bảo Đại
- Legislature
- None ( rule by decree ), House of Representatives ( de jure advisory body)
- Paten tre treaty
- 6 June 1884
- Abolition of the nguy n dynasty
- 25 August 1945
- Currency
- Vietnamese cash , French Indochinese piastre
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- protectorate
- Religion
- Mahāyāna
- Country
- French Indochina
- Capital
- Huế
- Currency
- French Indochinese piastre
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- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 1949-01-01
- Commons category
- French protectorate of Annam
- inception
- 1884-01-01
- different from
- Annam
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
Sources (1)
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Encyclopedic overview
Today part ofVietnam
Annam (chữ Hán: 安南; alternate spelling: Anam), or Trung Kỳ (中圻), was a French protectorate encompassing what is now Central Vietnam from 1883 to 1949. Like the French protectorate of Tonkin, it was nominally ruled by the Vietnamese Nguyễn dynasty. Before the protectorate's establishment, the name Annam was used in the West to refer to Vietnam as a whole; Vietnamese people were referred to as Annamites. The protectorate of Annam became a part of French Indochina in 1887. The region had a dual system of French and Vietnamese administration. The government of the Nguyễn dynasty still nominally ruled Annam and Tonkin as the Empire of Đại Nam, with the emperor residing in Huế. On 23 May 1948, the protectorate was partly merged in the Provisional Central Government of Vietnam, which was replaced the next year by the newly established State of Vietnam. The French legally maintained the protectorate until they formally signed over sovereignty to the Bảo Đại and the government of the State of Vietnam in 1950 after the Élysée Accords took over in June 1949. The region was divided between communist North Vietnam and anti-communist South Vietnam under the terms of the Geneva Accord of 1954.
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