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| Keywords: Old map of Vietnam.jpg Early Western Map of Tonkin 1651 One of the earliest Western maps showing details of northern and central Vietnam appeared in Father Alexander de Rhodes's Histoire dv royavme de Tvnqvin published in Rome in 1650 This map is from the French edition published a year later in Lyon Oriented with the north to the right Regnu Annam shows the extent of seventeenth-century Vietnam then divided between two rival dynasties one in the north and the other in central Vietnam Remnants of the Cham kingdom eventually destroyed by the Vietnamese still exist in the south To the west are the highlands occupied by Rumoi upland minority groups later called montagnards by the French The limited Western knowledge of the interior is illustrated by the large region labeled Solitudo originally from http //www loc gov/rr/asian/guide/guide-southern html High-resolution version from http //gallica bnf fr/ark /12148/bpt6k54392965 image r 19 f19 pagination The BNF PD-old Old maps of Vietnam Maps of Champa Kingdom of Annam Alexandre de Rhodes | ||||
