Cochinchina
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Cochinchina or Cochin-China is a historical exonym for part of Vietnam, depending on the contexts, usually for Southern Vietnam. Sometimes it referred to the whole of Vietnam, but it was commonly used
Cochinchina in 1829 under Nguyễn Dynasty
Cochinchina in 1832–1841
The six provinces of Lower Cochinchina in 1863
Cochinchina in 1878
French Indochina
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French Indochina, officially known as the Indochinese Union and after 1941 as the Indochinese Federation, was a group of French-dependent territories in Southeast Asia from 1887 to 1954. It was initia
Cochinchina
…Inaugurated as the French Cochinchina in 1862, this colonial administrative unit reached its full extent from 1867 and was a constituent territory of French Indochina from 1887 until early 1945. So during the French colonial period, the label Cochinchina moved further south, and came to refer exclusively to the…
The Presidential Palace, in Hanoi, built between 1900 and 1906 to house the governor-general of Indochina
French colonial inspector and local on top of an elephant in Phnom Penh in 1896.
The heads of Duong Be, Tu Binh and Doi Nhan decapitated by the French on 8 July 1908 in the Hanoi Poison Plot
A report by the Viện cơ mật on the financial and military aid given by the Nguyễn dynasty to Great France in the year Khải Định 2 (1917). Note how the document ends with the phrases Đại Pháp vạn tuế, Đông Dương vạn tuế (大法萬歲, 東洋萬歲).