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annam
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
old alternative name for Vietnam, from Chinese, literally "pacified south," the name given to the old nation of Nam Viet by the Chinese after they conquered it 111 B.C.E. From an "peace" + nan "south." It was discarded upon restoration of Viet independence in 939 C.E., but it stuck in Western geographies and was reapplied to the region c.1790 by the French.
Wikipedia
Annam ( or Trung Kỳ, alternate spelling: Anam) was a French protectorate encompassing the central region of Vietnam. Vietnamese were subsequently referred to as "Annamites." Nationalist writers adopted the word "Vietnam" in the late 1920s. The general public embraced the word "Vietnam" during the revolution of August 1945. Since that time, the word "Annam" has been regarded as demeaning.
The region was seized by the French by 1884 and became part of French Indochina in 1887. Two other Vietnamese regions, Cochinchina (Nam Kỳ) in the South and Tonkin (Bắc Kỳ) in the North, were also units of French Indochina. The region had a dual system of French and Vietnamese administration. The Nguyễn Dynasty still nominally ruled Annam, with a puppet emperor residing in Huế. In 1949, the protectorate was merged in the newly established State of Vietnam. The region was divided between communist North Vietnam and anti-communist South Vietnam under the terms of the Geneva Accord of 1954.
In the Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying game, Annam is the giant deity of Magic, Knowledge, Fertility, and Philosophy. Also known as the All-Father, is the creator god of the giant pantheon. His symbol is a pair of crossed hands, held palms together with their fingers facing downward.
Annam may refer to:
- Regions of Vietnam:
- A name of Vietnam used prior to 1945
- Annam (French protectorate), a former subdivision of French Indochina, now the central region of Vietnam
- Annam (Chinese province), the southernmost province of Imperial China between 679–939, now part of northern Vietnam
- Annamite Range, mountain range in Indochina
- Annam (Dungeons & Dragons), a character in Dungeons & Dragons role-playing universe
- SAS Tafelberg, Danish tanker originally named Annam
Annam was the name of the southernmost province of China after the Tang dynasty. The name is the Vietnamese form of the Chinese name "the Pacified South" , a clipped form of the full name, the "Protectorate General to Pacify the South" . This was one of a number of such protectorates formed by Tang China.
Before the establishment of the protectorate, the area was governed as Jiaozhou (, Jiāozhōu) or Jiaozhi . From its placement, it is now also sometimes known as Tonkin.
Usage examples of "annam".
But Annam was the strongest of the strong, and nothing could escape his grip.
Weak and erratic it beat, and Annam thought his punishment had been just.
Then she looked at Annam, and the tears in her eyes were as large as ponds.
Yet Annam was no evil god, and it would not please him to loose the spawn of a wicked union on this young world.
There were also Vilmos, paramount of storm giants, Ottar, jarl of frost giants, and all the other Sons of Annam, the eternal monarchs born of Othea and destined to rule the races of giant-kind as long as Ostoria endured.
Each race of giants held dominion over one area of this vast realm, and so the Sons of Annam were scattered far and wide.
A murmur of support rustled among the Sons of Annam, for they hated the Great Glacier as they hated nothing else.
The Sons of Annam customarily drank from the Well of Health before departing Bleak Palace, since the magical waters kept the mind clear and the body free of illness.
Blinded by the raging blizzard, the Sons of Annam bellowed in surprise and began to stumble about, filling the air with crashes and grunts as they collided with each other.
If Othea emptied her cup before the Sons of Annam, the titan would stop them.
The Sons of Annam quaffed the poison down, each anxious to leave Bleak Palace as quickly as possible.
Sons of Annam lie scattered on the snowy plain, as still and lifeless as Ulutiu upon his death raft.
The Chams of Annam and Cambodia say that the goddess of good luck used to resuscitate people as fast as they died, till the sky-god, tired of her constant interference with the laws of nature, transferred her to the moon, where it is no longer in her power to bring the dead to life again.
A number of works, by Ory, Luro, Laudes, and Sylvestre, on the village community in Annam, proving that it has had there the same forms as in Germany or Russia, is mentioned in a review of these works by Jobbe-Duval, in Nouvelle Revue historique de droit francais et etranger, October and December, 1896.
After leaving Quan-zho, I remember, we stopped for water at a great island off Manzi, called Hainan, and at a harbor village on the coast of Annam in Champa, called Gai-dinh-thanh, and at an island as big as a continent, called Kalimantan.