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Vijaya (Sanskrit for "victorious" [a]), also known as Vijayapura, was the capital of the Kingdom of Champa located in modern-day Bình Định province, Vietnam. It served as the capital of the Kingdom of Champa from the 12th century CE until it was conquered by Đại Việt during the Champa–Dai Viet War of 1471 .
Vijaya was located in present-day Bình Định Province (Tumpraukvijaya). Early mention is made of Vijaya in an 1160 inscription at Po Nagar. [ 152 ] The capital has been identified with the archaeological site at Cha Ban.
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Contains the coastal provinces in the southern half of Vietnam's central part. One province borders Laos. Central Highlands (Tây Nguyên) Đắk Lắk; Đắk Nông; Gia Lai; Kon Tum; Lâm Đồng; 54,641.0 6,251,000 102.63 Contains the mountainous provinces to the west of south-central Vietnam. There are a significant number of ethnic ...
Central Vietnam from south of Ngang Pass in Hà Tĩnh then became known as Rinan (日南) province, meaning "south of the sun." [ 12 ] To the Chinese, the country of Champa was known as 林邑 Linyi [ 13 ] in Mandarin and Lam Yap in Cantonese and to the Vietnamese, Lâm Ấp (which is the Sino-Vietnamese pronunciation of 林邑).
No Vijaya Champa inscription or document survives after the last, which was erected in 1456, but this may have been due to the destruction of the mandalas in 1471 by the Vietnamese. The incompletely-studied decline of Champa, as historian Michael Vickery has asserted, must be pieced together from Vietnamese and Chinese histories and competently ...
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