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annam (dict)
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Annam - Annam is also the name of the Father of all Giants, according to the mythology of the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game.
Annam literal meaning "Pacified South," is a region of central Vietnam that fell under Chinese rule in 111 BC as Annan (安南). Known locally as Trung Bộ, meaning "Central Boundary", it was formerly a kingdom with its capital at Hu. It had been seized by the French by 1884. The other two Vietnamese regions that were first under the Chinese rule, then the French after the Franco-Chinese War, are Cochin China and Tonkin. The earliest printed book of Vietnam was published in 1335: the 20-volume An Nam Ch Lược (The Concise Records of Annam, 《安南志略》), written by L Tắc (黎崱 li4 ce4). The name gave rise to the Annamitic Chain (la Chane Annamitique), also translated as Cordillera, Ridge, Mountains, a 1100-km with a height of 2958 metres, that divides Vietnam and Laos.
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