The Journal of Middle East and North Africa Sciences

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Authors: Tran Ngoc Giap; Nguyen Quang Trung Tien; Nguyen Ba Thanh; Nguyen Thanh Minh

In this article, we focus on exploiting materials from geographical works published in Germany, Italy, Bohemia [present-day Czech], Belgium, within the limit from 1816, when King Gia Long officially continued to claim possession of the Hoang Sa and Truong Sa archipelagoes, until 1909, before the Guangdong government, China jumped into the sovereignty dispute. In order to contribute to supplementing and completing documents of international legal value proving the process of peaceful exploitation and possession of Vietnam in the features in the two archipelagoes of Hoang Sa and Truong Sa taking place for many centuries. century, culminating in the official declaration of state possession in 1816 by King Gia Long under the Nguyen Dynasty and recognized by the international community.