Barbarie Lacus Maximus/ Vue d´Optique Representatnt/ Le Grand Lac de Barbarie

Title

Barbarie Lacus Maximus/ Vue d´Optique Representatnt/ Le Grand Lac de Barbarie

Description

Map shows the city of Hanoi as View optique.

ca. 1780

Artist

Daumont (1740-1775)

Jean François Daumont (1740 - 1775) was a french publisher and printer of vues d'optique, wallpaper, popular prints, and playing-cards.

Historical Description

Hanoi is the oldest of the existing capitals in Southeast Asia. In 866, the Chinese Tang Dynasty built a citadel called Đại La to consolidate its occupation on the west bank of the Red River, chosen in 1010 as its residential city and named "Thăng Long" "Rising Dragon". Over the centuries, Hanoi was repeatedly conquered by invaders, also losing its status as the capital and being renamed several times. During the Ho Dynasty (1400-1407), the city was called Đông Đô (Eastern Capital). When the Dutch East India Company established a trading post here in the 17th century, this name entered European literature as Tongking. During the Nguyen Dynasty (1802-1945), Hanoi lost its status as capital and had to cede it to Huế, but remained the administrative center of the north. In 1873, Hanoi was conquered by the French. From 1883 to 1945, the city was the administrative center of the colony of French Indochina. From 1940 to 1945, Hanoi, like most of French Indochina and Southeast Asia, was Japanese occupied. Since the reunification of the country in 1976, Hanoi has been the capital of all Vietnam.