Located at the southernmost tip of Vietnam, the Mekong Delta is the largest plain region in Southeast Asia. There are crisscrossing canals, endless rice paddies, and orchards with fragrant aromas in all seasons. Such a rich place, once part of Cambodia, is now an important part of Vietnam. So how did the Mekong Delta go from Cambodia to Vietnamese territory?
Cambodian Khmer people are indigenous people of the Mekong Delta region, successively through the rule of the Funan, Chenla and Angkor dynasties, Angkor is also cambodia's most glorious period, and even fought with Vietnam champa.
Vietnam has historically been an independent country, but it is actually quite late in the Indochina Peninsula. Not only is it later than Cambodia, but even Champa in the south is older than Vietnam. Vietnam's history was part of China, and it became independent after taking advantage of the chaos of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period.
But Vietnam is a very dishonest country, and at the beginning of independence, it embarked on the road of external expansion. Due to geographical limitations, the small Vietnamese state in the Red River Delta has been tirelessly expanding southward. The Champa in immediate vicinity with Vietnam became the first obstacle to be taken, and after hundreds of years of conquest and aggression, Vietnam finally wiped out the Champa state, and its territory was included in vietnam's territory.
In fact, this is very easy to understand, after all, Vietnam was a dynasty in a feudal society at that time, although it was strong in the surrounding areas, it would occasionally fall into civil strife and even change of dynasty. Moreover, Champa was not a cowardly country with no counter-attack. Further south of Champa is the Mekong Delta. This land still belongs to Cambodia at this time, but at this time Cambodia has long lost its former glory and has even been constantly invaded by neighboring Thailand.
Vietnam did not hastily attack the Mekong Delta, but took a step-by-step approach. I don't know how beautiful the Princess of Vietnam is, but she and the King of Cambodia have become two sons. The princess received the land from the king, and since then, a large number of Vietnamese have settled here.
After that, Vietnam began to find opportunities to invade and occupy the area, and eventually the civil unrest in Cambodia gave the Vietnamese the opportunity to annex the Mekong Delta region, and the rich Mekong Delta was officially incorporated into Vietnam's territory.
In fact, this is not the end, Vietnam and Thailand have always been competing for control of Cambodia, and even once made Cambodia a vassal state of Vietnam. It's just that history has left little time for Vietnam. In modern times, the once proud East began to sink, and this land was not occupied by Vietnam for long, it became the mouth of France, began to be called Jiaotong, and this place also became the base of French infiltration into the Indochina Peninsula. And eventually Vietnam, together with Laos and Cambodia, formed Indochina.
But Cambodia did not abandon the Mekong Delta, and even pinned its hopes on the French colonial authorities, but the French, no matter who it belonged to in history, is now French.
During World War II, the Japanese drove France away, and Vietnam and Cambodia sent people to lobby for their own hands. But eventually Japan returned it to Vietnam. The King of Cambodia stated that Cambodia reserved the right to claim this land.
After the comeback of the French, they claimed to leave the future of Jiaotonga to the Decision of the Jiaotongmen themselves, and even established an Autonomous Republic of Jiaotonga. But in the end, Vietnam reacted fiercely, and France had to return it to Vietnam as well. The Cambodian government also sent personnel to participate in the relevant discussions in the French parliament and protested the final vote.
At the Geneva Conference, Cambodia again proposed the ownership of JiaotongChina, always stressing that the Vietnamese occupation was illegal, but received little support. It remained the domain of the South Vietnamese government until 1975, when Vietnam moved toward reunification and officially became part of Vietnam.
Although Cambodians also know that it is more difficult to recover the Mekong Delta, in fact, until now, they have not given up, and even many institutions in the country that have safeguarded the sovereignty of the former Lower Cambodia region have always advocated the recovery of this land, and occasionally march and demonstrate, showing their faces, but the impact is minimal.