The Provisional Central Government of Vietnam was a provisional government within the French Union, proclaimed on 23 May 1948 in Vietnam during the First Indochina War. On 5 June 1948, it was recogniz
Bảo Đại with Vietnamese nationalist revolutionaries in Hong Kong, 9 September 1947.
Annam (French protectorate)
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Annam, or Trung Kỳ, 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 dynast
Administrative divisions of the French Protectorate of Annam in 1920.
Postcard of the Annam Tower, built in Marseille for the 1906 Colonial Exhibition.
An Indochinese primary school completion certificate (Bằng-Cấp Tiểu-Học Cụ-Thề Đông-Pháp) issued by the National Ministry of Education of the Nguyễn dynasty in the year 1939. It has a modern French design but displays traditional symbols like the seal of the minister, and uses Classical Chinese alongside Romanised Vietnamese.