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Founding of the Champa Kingdom
Champa was an Indic city-state alliance formed around the 2nd century CE along the eastern coast of mainland Southeast Asia;…
Timeline
- 192Lin Yi (Champa) · Central CoastAccording to Chinese records, Khu Lien killed the magistrate of Xianglin county in 192 and founded the kingdom of Lin Yi, integrating local Cham forces and becoming an Indic polity independent of Funan.
- c. 200–250Coastal cities of Champa · VietnamAfter the founding, Lin Yi gradually absorbed Indian cultural influence. Clear evidence of Sanskrit inscriptions and Hindu royal symbolism appears mainly from the 4th century onward (e.g., under Bhadrawarman), so the fully formed Indic city-state system should not be placed directly in 192 CE.
Sources
- Khu Liên https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khu_Li%C3%AAn
- History of Champa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Champa
- The Champa Kingdoms — R. C. Majumdar (1951)