Đàng Ngoài

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Đàng Ngoài (red) and Đàng Trong (blue) in 1757.

Đàng Ngoài (chữ Hán: 唐外,[1] lit. "Outer Land"), also known as Tonkin, Bắc Hà (北河, "North of the River") or Kingdom of Annam (安南國) by foreigners, was an area in northern Đại Việt (now Vietnam) during the 17th and 18th centuries as the result of Trịnh–Nguyễn War.[2] The word "Đàng Ngoài" first appeared in the Dictionarium Annamiticum Lusitanum et Latinum by Alexandre de Rhodes.

Đàng Ngoài was de-facto ruled by the

Nguyễn Huệ
's conquering of the north.

See also

References

  1. ^ Albert Schroeder (1904). Chronologie des souverains de l'Annam par Albert Schroeder (in French). p. 23. Trịnh 鄭: Dits les seigneurs du Nord ou Chúa đàng ngoài 主唐外.
  2. ^ Keith Weller Taylor, John K. Whitmore Essays Into Vietnamese Pasts 1995 Page 170 "The "kingdom of Cochinchina" was the polity of the Nguyễn lords (chúa), who had become the more and more independent rivals of the Trịnh lords of the north — if not of the Lê emperors whose affairs the Trịnh lords managed.."