Tonkin, from the Vietnamese Đông Kinh, meaning "eastern capital," refers either to the city of Hanoi, seat of the [[Trinh lords]] in the 16th-18th centuries, or to the Trinh domain as a whole, which encompassed much of northern [[Vietnam]]. | Tonkin, from the Vietnamese Đông Kinh, meaning "eastern capital," refers either to the city of Hanoi, seat of the [[Trinh lords]] in the 16th-18th centuries, or to the Trinh domain as a whole, which encompassed much of northern [[Vietnam]]. |