Cham-Vietnamese Wars

The Cham-Vietnamese Wars are the broad series of wars and armed conflicts fought between successive Vietnamese states and the kingdom of Champa from the tenth century through Champa's final subjugation, and beyond that into episodic Cham unrest under Vietnamese rule as late as the twentieth century. Following an earlier failed Cham invasion of Vietnam in 979, Vietnamese rulers under the Le, Ly and Tran dynasties waged repeated campaigns southward against Champa across the eleventh through fourteenth centuries, with intervals of peace and even occasional alliance, including cooperation against the Mongol invasions of the thirteenth century. The decisive turn came with the Champa-Dai Viet War of 1471, in which Vietnamese forces destroyed Champa's capital and reduced the kingdom to a small vassal remnant, after which later Cham uprisings such as the revolts led by Katip Sumat and Ja Thak Wa were suppressed as Vietnamese territorial and cultural absorption of Champa continued. Taken together, the wars produced the complete conquest and dispersal of the Cham people from their historic homeland.