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  2. Mainland Southeast Asia - Wikipedia

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    1886 map of Indochina, from the Scottish Geographical Magazine. In Indian sources, the earliest name connected with Southeast Asia is Yāvadvīpa []. [1] Another possible early name of mainland Southeast Asia was Suvarṇabhūmi ("land of gold"), [1] [2] a toponym, that appears in many ancient Indian literary sources and Buddhist texts, [3] but which, along with Suvarṇadvīpa ("island" or ...

  3. French Indochina - Wikipedia

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    French Indochina (previously spelled as French Indo-China), [a] [b] officially known as the Indochinese Union [c] [d] and after 1941 as the Indochinese Federation, [e] was a group of French dependent territories in Southeast Asia from 1887 to 1954.

  4. Category:Former countries in Southeast Asia - Wikipedia

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    Former polities of the Indochina Wars (17 P) B. Burmese monarchy (18 C, 23 P) F. French Indochina (14 C, 13 P) K. ... Pages in category "Former countries in Southeast ...

  5. Indochina wars - Wikipedia

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    During the Cold War, the Indochina wars (Vietnamese: Chiến tranh Đông Dương) were a series of wars which were waged in Indochina from 1946 to 1991, by communist forces (mainly ones led by Vietnamese communists) against the opponents (mainly the Vietnamese capitalists, Trotskyists, the State of Vietnam, the Republic of Vietnam, the French, American, Laotian royalist, Cambodian and Chinese ...

  6. List of peninsulas - Wikipedia

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    3.4.1 Indochina. 3.4.2 Indonesia. 3.4.3 Malaysia. ... Presented below is a list of peninsulas ... It denotes the region containing the countries of Djibouti, Eritrea ...

  7. European colonisation of Southeast Asia - Wikipedia

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    Plywood factory in Sabang off Sumatra, Dutch East Indies, image taken before 1927 Workshop in Hanoi, French Indochina circa 1935 Da Lat railway station, Lâm Đồng Province, French Indochina. The phenomenon denoted New Imperialism, saw the conquest of nearly all Southeast Asian territories by the colonial powers. The Dutch East India Company ...

  8. Southeast Asia - Wikipedia

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    Countries in Southeast Asia practice many different religions and the region is home to many world religions including Abrahamic, Indian, East Asian and Iranian religions. By population, Islam is the most practised faith with approximately 240 million adherents, or about 40% of the entire population, concentrated in Indonesia , Brunei ...

  9. First Indochina War - Wikipedia

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    Because this war placed on our country an unbearable burden. And here appears today a new and formidable threat: if the Indochina conflict is not resolved—and settled very fast—it is the risk of war, of international war and maybe atomic, that we must foresee. It is because I wanted a better peace that I wanted it earlier, when we had more ...