Đàng Trong

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Đàng Trong in blue and Đàng Ngoài (1757).

Đàng Trong (

Nguyễn clan, later enlarged by the Vietnamese southward expansion.[2] The word Đàng Trong first appeared in the Dictionarium Annamiticum Lusitanum et Latinum by Alexandre de Rhodes. Contemporary European sources called it Cochinchina
or Quinam.

During the 17th century and almost all the 18th century, Đàng Trong was a de facto independent kingdom ruled by the

Quảng Nam Governorate where the important harbor Hội An (Faifo) located.[3]

See also

Notes

  1. ^ This action does not necessarily mean Nguyễn Phúc Khoát renounced his status as a nominal subject of Lê emperors. For an analogy, in 216 Emperor Xian of Han bestowed the nominal vassal king title "King of Wei" (魏王) upon Grand chancellor Cao Cao

References

  1. ^ Albert Schroeder (1904). Chronologie des souverains de l'Annam par Albert Schroeder (in French). p. 24. Nguyễn 阮: Dits les seigneurs du Sud ou Chúa đàng trong 主唐冲.
  2. ^ Nguyễn Cochinchina: Southern Vietnam in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries ed. Tana Li p99 onwards "Life in Đàng Trong: A New Way of Being Vietnamese"
  3. ^ Việt Nam sử lược, vol. 2, chap. 6