Hà Tiên province
One of the Six Provinces of Southern Vietnam
Hà Tiên (Vietnamese: tỉnh Hà Tiên; chữ Hán: 河僊) was a former province of South Vietnam originally formed in 1832 and disestablished in 1956. Its capital was Hà Tiên.
History
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In 18 century, a small town "Hà Tiên" was established by Mo Jiu (Mạc Cửu), whom was a Chinese emigrant.
Many works incorrectly referred to Hà Tiên as "Panthaimas", confusing Hà Tiên with Banteay Meas.[1] It was variously spelled as Panday-mas (Khmer), Ponteamass (English), Phutthaimat (Thai: พุทไธมาศ) or Banthaimat (Thai: บันทายมาศ), Ponthiamas or Pontheaymas (French), Pontiano (Robert's Map, 1751), Panthai-mas, Bantaimas, Pontiamas, Pontaimas, Bantay-mas, Banteay M’eas, Pontiamas, Pontiamasse, Po-taimat, and infinite other variations.[2]
Mạc Cửu later switched allegiance to the Nguyễn lords of Vietnam.[3] Since 1708, the region became Vietnamese Hà Tiên trấn, however, Hà Tiên trấn enjoyed a high degree of autonomy until 1777. Former governors of Hà Tiên trấn include Mạc Cửu, Mạc Thiên Tứ, Trần Liên and Mạc Tử Sinh.
Hà Tiên trấn was disestablished and changed to Hà Tiên province in 1832. It was one of Six Provinces of Southern Vietnam. After the Cochinchina Campaign it was ceded to France and later became a part of French Cochinchina. On 1 January 1900, Hà Tiên province was divided into the 3 provinces: Hà Tiên, Rạch Giá, Bạc Liêu. In 1901, Hà Tiên province contained two prefectures (phủ), including An Biên and Quảng Biên.[4]
In 1950, Hà Tiên province and Long Châu Hậu province were merged into the new established Long Châu Hà Province. In 1954, Long Châu Hà province was disestablished and divided into three provinces: Hà Tiên, Châu Đốc, Long Xuyên.
On 22 October 1956, Hà Tiên province and Rạch Giá province merged to Kiên Giang province. The former Hà Tiên province divided into two districts, Hà Tiên and Phú Quốc, both were parts of Kiên Giang Province.
References
- ^ Cooke, Nola; Li, Tana (2004), Water frontier: commerce and the Chinese in the Lower Mekong Region, 1750-1880, Rowman & Littlefield, p. 44, ISBN 978-0-7425-3083-6
- ^ Nicholas Sellers, The Princes of Hà-Tiên (1682-1867): the Last of the Philosopher-Princes and the Prelude to the French Conquest of Indochina: a Study of the Independent Rule of the Mac Dynasty in the Principality of Hà-Tiên, and the Establishment of the Empire of Vietnam, Brussels, Thanh-long, 1983, p. 164.
- ^ Coedes, George (1966), The making of South East Asia, University of California Press, p. 213, ISBN 978-0-520-05061-7
- ^ Trương, Jean Baptiste Pétrus Vĩnh Ký (1875). Petit cours de géographie de la Basse-Cochinchine (Small Course on Lower Cochinchina Geography). Bibliothèque nationale de France (National Library of France). Retrieved 4 January 2014.
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