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Tonkin

LC control no.n 81075617
Descriptive conventionsrda
Geographic headingTonkin
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Variant(s)Bắc Kỳ
Bắc Phần
Bei Qi
Beiqi
Protectorat du Tonkin
Protectorate of Tonkin
Tangkīa
Tong-King
Tongking
Tonking
Tonqueen
Tonquin
Tungking
北圻
See alsoFrench Indochina
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Vietnam (Associated State)
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Beginning date1883
Ending date1948
Associated countryFrench Indochina
Special noteSUBJECT USAGE: This heading is not valid for use as a subject. Works about this place are entered under the subject heading Vietnam, Northern.
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Found inCol. Lipp gaz., 1962 (Tonkin, Tongking, or Tonking; former Fr. protectorate constituting (after 1945-46) N Vietnam)
Encyc. Brit. (Tonkin, also called Tongking, Vietnamese: Bac-Phan, historic region of Indochina; From 1883 a French protectorate)
BGN, 6/30/81 (Conventional: Tonkin; Vietnamese: Bắc Phần; region, former French protectorate, 22 00N, 105 00E)
Nō̜ranētibanchākit (Wǣ). Nirāt Tangkīa, 1968.
Bulletin officiel en langue indigène, Năm 1936, só̂ 1: (Bắc Kỳ...)
Part of Tong-King and Southern China, 1891
Wikipedia, August 18, 2020 (Tonkin (French protectorate); Tonkin, or Bắc Kỳ (北圻 = Beiqi), was a French protectorate encompassing modern Northern Vietnam; Protectorate of Tonkin; Protectorat du Tonkin; constituent territory of French Indochina; Tonkin was merged in 1948 into the Provisional Central Government of Vietnam, which was replaced the next year by the State of Vietnam, following the reunification with Cochinchina. After the French defeat at the Battle of Dien Bien Phu in Western Tonkin in 1954, the Communist state of North Vietnam was formed, consisting of Tonkin and northern Annam)
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