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The Chams (Cham: ꨌꩌ, چام, cam), or Champa people (Cham: ꨂꨣꩃ ꨌꩌꨛꨩ, اوراڠ چامفا, Urang Campa; [8] Vietnamese: Người Chăm or Người Chàm; Khmer: ជនជាតិចាម, Chônchéatĕ Cham), are an Austronesian ethnic group in Southeast Asia and are the original inhabitants of central Vietnam and coastal Cambodia before the arrival of the Cambodians and ...
The Cham king fled to Cambodia with thousands of his people while others escaped by boat to Hainan and Aceh (Acehnese people). These migrations continued for the next 400 years as the Vietnamese slowly chipped away at the remains of Champa until the last vestige of the kingdom was annexed by Vietnam in the late 19th century.
The people who used to inhabit the region are the present-day Chamic-speaking Cham, Rade and Jarai peoples in South and Central Vietnam and Cambodia; the Acehnese from Northern Sumatra, Indonesia, along with elements of Austroasiatic Bahnaric and Katuic-speaking peoples in Central Vietnam.
Cambodia was the refuge of Chams who fled along with Po Chien after Champa lost more lands in 1720 to the Vietnamese. [148] 1836 French map of Southeast Asia showing no trace of Champa after the Vietnamese annexation of 1832. When the Ming dynasty in China fell, Chinese refugees fled south and extensively settled on Cham lands and in Cambodia ...
Khmer–Cham wars were a series of conflicts and contests between states of the Khmer Empire and Champa, later involving Đại Việt, that lasted from the mid-10th century to the early 13th century in mainland Southeast Asia. The first conflict began in 950 AD when Khmer troops sacked the Cham principality of Kauthara. Tensions between the ...
In 2009, the Pew Research Center estimated that 1.6% of the population, or 236,000 people were Muslims. [1] In 2021, the State Department estimated the Islamic population at less than 1%. [2] Like other Muslim Cham people, those in Cambodia are Sunni Muslims of the Shafi'i denomination and following the Maturidi doctrine. Po Dharma divides the ...
Pages in category "Cambodian Cham people" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Fatima Ahmed;
Laotian Cham people (1 P) V. Vietnamese Cham people (5 P) Pages in category "Cham people" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total.