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	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The coast line of Tongking from Mon-Kay on the Chinese frontier to Thanh-Hoa, near,.that of Annam, has a length of 375 M. From Mon-Kay as far as the estuary of the Song-Koi it is broken, rugged and fringed with islands and rocky islets.
		Till 1897 the emperor of Annam was represented in Tongking by a viceroy (kinh-luoc), but now the native officials are appointed by and are directly under the control of the resident-superior, who resides at Hanoi, presides over,the protectorate council, and is the chief territorial representative of France.
		Tongking is divided into nineteen provinces, in each of which there is a resident or a vice-resident, and four military territories, the latter administered by commandants.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /correction/edit?locale=en&content_id=66190 (2905 words)

	Tongking - LoveToKnow 1911
		TONGKING, 1 a province of French Indo-China, and protectorate of France, situated between 20° and 231° N. and 102° and 1081° E., and bounded N. by the Chinese provinces of KwangTung, Kwang-Si and Yun-nan, W. by Laos, S. by Annam, and E. by the Gulf of Tongking.
		Geographically, Tongking comprises three regions: (I) the delta of the Song-Koi (Red river), which, beginning at Son-Tay and coalescing with the delta of the Thai-Binh, widens out into the low-lying and fertile plain within which are situated the principal cities.
		The transit trade via Tongking between Hong-Kong and the province of Yun-nan in southern China is of considerable importance, reaching in 1905 a value of £1,146,000.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Tongking (3030 words)

	TONGKING - Online Information article about TONGKING (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Annam, and E. by the Gulf of Tongking.
		Kay (the Lao boundary), and flows thence in a south-easterly direction to the Gulf of Tongking.
		When, however, on arriving in Tongking Philastre heard of Garnier's death, he took command of the French forces, and at once ordered the evacuation of Nam-Dinh, Ninh-Binh and Hai-Duong—a measure which, however advantageous it may have been to the French at the moment, was most disastrous to the native See also:
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /THE_TOO/TONGKING.html (4155 words)

	Pierre-Rose-Ursule-Dumoulin Borie
		Bishop-elect of Acanthus, Vicar Apostolic of Western Tongking and Martyr; b.
		His progress in the language of the country was rapid, but eight months after his installation an edict of persecution was issued (January, 1833).
		Shortly after this, on the 24th of November, 1838, the death sentence was pronounced on him and two native priests; the execution took place that same day.
	catholicity.com /encyclopedia/b/borie,pierre-rose-ursule-dumoulin.html (361 words)

	Annam (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		It had been seized by the French by 1884 and was part of the French-ruled federation of French Indochina from 1887 until its collapse in 1954 as a result of the French defeat in the First Indochina War.
		The chief towns of Annam are Huế (seat both of the French and native governments), Tourane, Phan Thiết in the extreme south, Qui Nhon, and Fai Fo (a commercial centre to the south of Tourane).
		The ancient tribe of the Giao Chi, who dwelt on the confines of south China, and in what is now Tongking and northern Annam, are regarded by the Annamese as their ancestors, and tradition ascribes to their first rulers descent from the Chinese imperial family.
	q-basic.xodox.de /Annam (1741 words)

	The T. Rex Essay: Aftermath of the Sino-French War
		The war lasted nine and a half months, although there was some fighting and a number of battle-deaths prior to the "official" beginning of the war in 1884.
		The war ended in April of 1885 when the original Li-Fournier convention was adopted into a new convention that stipulated dates and methods for the cessation of hostilities, removal of troops, and the ending of the French naval blockade of Taiwan.
		The treaty that was signed two months later left France in control of Tongking, but prohibited the French from making any laws or rules for the Annam area that would be detrimental to China.
	quinnell.us /conflict/essay/sino3.html (1273 words)

	The T. Rex Essay: The Sino-French War
		In 1882 The French sent naval officer Henri Riviere on an expedition to the Tongking province on the pretext of securing the Hanoi area for trade purposes.
		This rejection, combined with the actions of Riviere, increased the suspicions of the Chinese, who thought that the French had mislead them from the beginning of negotiations and that the French were preparing to annex Tongking.
		Chinese armies in Tongking were ordered to advance and the Cantonese navy was instructed to commence maneuvers near Annam.
	quinnell.us /conflict/essay/sino1.html (1863 words)

	History of Annam
		General Tong Led the Southern Expedition and placed the forces at the disposal of the Emperor of Tongking in his conquest against Miet-Si.
		He next to be seen at the head of more than 30,000 Tongking and Chekiang warriors in April 1519 at the head waters of the Mekong.
		She suggested that he was building weapons of mass destruction and wouldn't allow Tongking inspectors in to examine them.
	suczek.home.mindspring.com /Misc/Chekiang/History.htm (2688 words)

	Sandafayre Stamp Auctions \| Stamp Atlas \| Vietnam
		A union of Cambodia, Cochin China, Annam and Tongking decreed on 17 October 1887 with the addition of Laos after 1893.
		It also included after 1898 Kouang Tcheou Wau, an enclave of China between Pakhoi and Hoihow, in the area of the Lui-Chow peninsula The constituent parts continued to be identified by name on their cancellers.
		The rulers the Japanese set up in 1944-5 in Cambodia and 'Vietnam' and the rival insurgent armies in the north set the scene for future conflicts, though French authority was re-established in 1945-9.
	www.sandafayre.com /atlas/vnam.htm (462 words)

	??A Numerical Simulation of Tides and Tidal Currents in the South China Sea (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The semi-diurnal tidal waves enter the SCS from the Bashi Channel and propagate northeastward to the Taiwan Strait, southwestward to the Gulf of Tongking and to the Gulf of Thailand.
		The amplitude of semi-diurnal tides is largest in the Taiwan Strait and is large along the southern coasts of China and the Indo-China peninsula, and along the eastern coast of Malaysia and the southwestern coast of Kalimantan.
		This is due to the local resonance of diurnal tides in the Gulf of Tongking (Manh and Yanagi, 1997).
	sol.oc.ntu.edu.tw /aot/1998/371/E3712m.html (2435 words)

	Hainan - LoveToKnow Watches (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		In the same year 424 vessels, representing a tonnage of 312,554, visited the port.
		This trade is almost entirely with the British colony of Hong-Kong, with which the port is connected by small coasting steamers, but since 1893 it has had regular steamboat communication with Haiphong in Tongking.
		The population of K`iung-chow, including its shipping port of Hoi-how, is estimated at 52,000.
	www.1911ency.org /H/HA/HAINAN.htm (1493 words)

	ThingsAsian: Hoi An Hoard - Shipwrecks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		A Spanish galleon lost off the coast of northern Vietnam, in the Bay of Tongking.
		A Dutch East Indiaman of 100 tons, Captain Kornelis Hendriksz Denijs, departed Galle (Ceylon) on December 17, 1632 and ran ashore at Cochin China on October 22, 1633.
		HEIC (Honourable East India Company) ship that was lost on February 25 on the Bar of Tongking, near Haipong, Vietnam during its voyage from England to China.
	www.thingsasian.com /article/hoard/shipwrecks.htm (400 words)

	Indochina
		I'm not sure when, but north Annam and the Mekong delta region became separate entities as Tongking and Cochinchina respectively.
		Annam reunited the whole region (equivalent to modern Vietnam) with the creation of the Vietnamese Empire in 1802, but Cochin, Annam, and Tongking remained separate administrative regions.
		The French then made protectorates of AnnamAnnam and Tongking in 1884, and united the whole lot into the Union Indochinoise in 1887 (with the capital still at Saigon).
	flagspot.net /flags/vn-inchn.html (1950 words)

	The Medieval Geography of Sanfotsi and Zabag
		Then southward after three days, one comes to Mount Chan-pu-lan, this mountain is in the sea at 200 li east of the country of Huan-wang (Tongking).
		While Sanfotsi was considered the major port of the South, and Toupo of the Southeast, ports at Tongking and Cambodia were considered the major markets of the Southwest from the port of Canton near modern Hong Kong.
		Clearly from this we can see that both Sanfotsi and Toupo are located to the east of Cambodia and Tongking.
	asiapacificuniverse.com /pkm/sanfotsizabag.htm (1840 words)

	FRENCH COLONIES Stamps
		1888 Annam & Tongking, 'A & T 1' on 2c brown/buff...
		1888 Annam & Tongking, 'A - T 1' on 4c purple...
		1888 Annam & Tongking, Unissued 'A & T 5' on 2c...
	www.sandafayre.com /gallery/country_138_2.htm (156 words)

	[No title]
		A seventeenth- century guardsman of the king of Tongking in the northern part of modern Vietnam.
		But in the early seventeenth century Jesuits from Macao began to appear in Cochin-China and Tongking, the two most important states of the north which were then locked in a semipermanent civil war.
		In the latter half of the seventeenth century French secular priests of the Paris mission society began to compete with the Jesuits for the hearts and souls of the Vietnamese.
	www.lib.uchicago.edu /e/su/southasia/lach.html (10804 words)

	History of Vietnamese Buddhism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The history of Vietnamese Buddhism, however, begins in 580 AD, with the arrival of Vinitaruci, an Indian monk who had studied with the third patriarch of Chinese Zen Buddhism, long before it split into northern and southern schools.
		In the course of this campaign, a very significant prisoner of was brought to Tongking from captured Cham territory.
		This prisoner was the Chinese monk Ts’ao Tang (Thao-Duong), a proponent of the Zen- Pure Land synthesis, which was prominent in China at the time.
	www.haianpagoda.org /Andrew/Vietnam.htm (340 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: France
		On the other hand, it enriched the colonial possessions, or the sphere of influence, of France by the acquisition of Tongking, Tunis, and Madagascar.
		The nine French mission of Tongking and Cochin-China have 650,000 Catholics.
		Puginier, who, from 1880 to 1892, did so much to open up those regions to French exploration.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/06166a.htm (15104 words)

	Mackey's Encyclopedia of Freemasonry
		When the newly initiated has repeated this command several times, then the chief Brahman instructs him in the ceremonies, teaches him several songs to the honor of God, and finally dismisses him with many exhortations to pursue a virtuous course of life (see Paris).
		Southeast of Asia and south of China, including the protectorates of Annam, Tongking and Cambodia, the colony of Cochin China, and part of the Laos country.
		At Saigon, Cochin China, the Grand Orient of France established a Lodge in 1868, Le Réveil de l'Orient, meaning in English The Awakening of the East, and the Grand Lodge of France also warranted a Lodge there in 1908, La Ruche d'Orient, meaning The Beehive of the East.
	phoenixmasonry.org /mackeys_encyclopedia/i.htm (15352 words)

	Encyclopaedia of Postal History
		A&T Overprint on French Colonial Commerce types of Annam & Tongking issued on 21 January 1888.
		The stamps also carried a surcharge of 1 or 5 centimes.
		You may use the format on condition that my authorship is clearly acknowledged.
	www.jl.sl.btinternet.co.uk /stampsite/alpha/a/aaal.html (824 words)

	November 6 Saint (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Often he wrote to tell his beloved sister in France all his adventures and narrow escapes from his persecutors.
		At last, after bravely serving the many Christians in Tongking, Theophane was captured and chained in a cage for two months.
		He managed to write a letter home in which he said: "All those who surround me are civil and respectful.
	www.tntt.org /vni/tlieu/saints/St1106.htm (413 words)

	HighBeam Encyclopedia - Tonkin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		After the war Tonkinese and Annamese nationalist leaders joined in demanding independence for the state of Vietnam, and Tonkin was torn by guerrilla warfare between the French and the Viet Minh nationalists led by Ho Chih Minh.
		The name also appears as Tongking and Tonking.
		Find newspaper and magazine articles plus images and maps related to "Tonkin" at HighBeam.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/T/Tonkin.asp (435 words)

	TIME Magazine Archive Article -- Tongking Troubles -- Nov. 2, 1931 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		TIME Magazine Archive Article -- Tongking Troubles -- Nov. 2, 1931
		The French go-native system has worked extremely well in Tunis and Morocco, badly in Syria, and has now run into trouble in French Indo-China.
		Tongking and Annam are ruled today as they were 400 years ago,...
	www.time.com /time/archive/printout/0,23657,753082,00.html (156 words)

	Cycas balansae (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		A single collection was cited as `Im Herbarium Barbey finde ich von Balansa sub Nr.
		The Barbey-Boissier herbarium and types are in G. Balansa collections are also in P. Warburg types were mostly held by B, and Schuster (1932) cited a specimen probably from B which would probably have been the type: `Tongking: Village du papier bei Hanoi, im Hof einer Pagode (B. Balansa IV.
		The specimens in G were not annotated by Warburg or Schuster, and may not have been seen by either.
	plantnet.rbgsyd.gov.au /cgi-bin/taxon.pl?name=Cycas+balansae (677 words)

	Hey Asda, Edinburgh - Film, Food, Festival and Fringe Comedy Reviews, Celebrity Interviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		To this end, I stayed up until 2 O'clock this morning scribbling the following.
		GULF OF TONGKING A NOVEL BY ALOYSIUS MUNN
		It ricocheted off the walls of the building, reaching its last end in the body of some poor unknown out on the street.
	www.carpentermunn.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk /2005/03/gulf-of-tongking.html (301 words)

	ZoomInfo Web Summary: François Pallu (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		A Dutch translation was published in 1669.Ad 2: Rare second edition of an account of the voyages and mission activities of the French bishops in the Far East, by François Pallu (1625-1684), the titular bishop of Heliopolis (Baalbek) with jurisdiction over Tongking, Laos and five provinces of southwestern China.
		He arrived in Ayutthaya, Siam, in 1664, where he met bishop Lambert (see above).
		Ad 2: Rare second edition of an account of the voyages and mission activities of the French bishops in the Far East, by François Pallu (1625-1684), the titular bishop of Heliopolis (Baalbek) with jurisdiction over Tongking, Laos and five provinces of southwestern China.
	www.zoominfo.com /directory/Pallu_Fran%E7ois_409824495.htm (622 words)

	John F. Kennedy Assassination Homepage :: FAQ
		The reason why Kennedy was killed is obvious in the the actions by the new Government after the assassination.
		The decision to withdrew from Vietnam was rolled back, the incident in the Gulf of Tongking in August 1964 smelled of the CIA's involvment (on August 7, 1964, Johnson advised to take all military steps to secure the Americans - a de facto war declaration).
		When the USA finally signed the Contract of Paris, 75 000 Americans and Millions of Vietnam people died in that war.
	www.jfk-assassination.com /faq.php (3362 words)

	FRENCH COLONIES - Phil-Index - ANNAM & TONGKING Stocklist (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		FRENCH COLONIES - Phil-Index - ANNAM & TONGKING Stocklist
		Phil-Index : Stocklist for ANNAM & TONGKING : July 2006
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	www.frenchcolonies.co.uk /stock/stock053.htm (60 words)

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