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Champa

Champa was a collection of independent Cham polities that extended across the coast of what is present-day central and southern Vietnam from approximately the 2nd century AD until 1832.

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Champa was a series of independent kingdoms ruled by the Cham people that occupied the central and southern coast of what is now Vietnam, lasting from around the 2nd century AD until 1832. It matters as a significant historical civilization that shaped the region's cultural, political, and territorial development for over 1,600 years.

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Country.conventional_long_name: Kingdom of Champa
Country.native_name: Campapura, Campanagara, Nagaracampa, Nagarcam
Country.common_name: Champa
Country.p1: Sa Huỳnh culture
Country.s1: Nguyễn dynasty
Country.p2: Han dynasty#Eastern Han Eastern Han dynasty
Country.image_map: Map-of-southeast-asia 1000 - 1100 CE.png
Country.image_map_caption: The main Champa kingdom (yellow) before 1306 lay along the coast of present-day southern Vietnam. To the north lay Đại Việt (blue); to the west, the Khmer Empire (red).
Country.image_map2: Map-of-southeast-asia 1400 CE-es.svg
Country.image_map2_caption: Territory of Champa (light blue) after 1306, neighboring Đại Việt (dark pink) and the Khmer Empire (orange), after the marriage of princess Huyền Trân and king of Cham Jaya Simhavarman III.
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34 sections

Contents

Etymology
Historiography
Sources
Overarching theories
History
Sources of foreign cultural influence
Founding legend
Formation and growth
Champa at its height
Relations and warfare with the Khmer and the Viet, c. 1000–1471
Decline
Government
King
Administration
Federation or absolutism?
[[Military of Champa|Military]]
Geography of historical Champa
Religion
Hinduism and Buddhism
Islam
Economy
Cham port-cities
Role of women
Archaeological remains
Religious
Fortresses and cities
Museums
Cham influences on Vietnamese culture
Legacy
See also
Notes
Citations
References
External links

Champa was a collection of independent Cham polities that extended across the coast of what is present-day central and southern Vietnam from approximately the 2nd century AD until 1832.

According to earliest historical references found in ancient sources, the first Cham polities were established around the 2nd to 3rd centuries AD, in the wake of Khu Liên's rebellion against the rule of China's Eastern Han dynasty, and lasted until when the final remaining principality of Champa was annexed by Emperor Minh Mạng of the Vietnamese Nguyễn dynasty as part of the expansionist Nam tiến policy. The kingdom was known variously as Nagaracampa (), Champa (ꨌꩌꨛꨩ) in modern Cham, and Châmpa () in the Khmer inscriptions, Chiêm Thành in Vietnamese, Campa in Malay, Zhànchéng (Mandarin: 占城) in Chinese records, and al-Ṣanf (Arabic: صَنْف) in Middle Eastern Muslim records.