Indian incenses containing Plumeria have " Champa " in their name, for example Nag Champa.

Indian incenses containing Plumeria, known in the West as Frangipani, have Champa in their name.

Hindu stone temples of the Champa civilization contain both Sanskrit and Chamic stone inscriptions.

* In 20th-century history, art history, linguistics, and allied fields: Now largely out of favor, it consisted of " lands including Burma, Java, Cambodia, Bali, and the former Champa and Funan polities of present-day Vietnam ," in which pre-Islamic Indian culture left an " imprint in the form of monuments, inscriptions and other traces of the historic ‘ Indianising ’ process.

The Chinese government sent a censor, Ch ' en Chun, to Champa in 1474 to install the Champa King, but he discovered Vietnamese ( Annamese ) soldiers had taken over Champa and were blocking his entry.

First, the remaining Champa territories were taken ; next, the areas around the Mekong river were placed under Vietnamese control.

He also composed religious dances representing subjects taken from Indian mythology, which came to be known as Rin ' yu-gaku or Champa dances.

* Baroque or Bayon Style ( 1181 – 1243 ): In the final quarter of the 12th century, King Jayavarman VII freed the country of Angkor from occupation by an invasionary force from Champa.

A few years later the Sui army pushed farther south and was attacked by troops on war elephants from Champa in southern Vietnam.

A Chinese merchant from Quanzhou, Wang Yuanmao, traded extensively with Champa, and married a Cham princess.

The first religion of the Champa was a form of Shaivite Hinduism, brought by sea from India.

The kingdom of Champa ( Campadesa or nagara Campa in Cham and Cambodian inscriptions, written in Devanagari as च ं प ा; Chăm Pa in Vietnamese, 占城 Chiêm Thành in Hán Việt and Zhàn chéng in Chinese records ) was an Indianized kingdom that controlled what is now southern and central Vietnam from approximately the 7th century through to 1832.

Champa was preceded in the region by a kingdom called Lin-yi ( 林邑, Middle Chinese * Lim Ip ) or Lâm Ấp ( Vietnamese ) that was in existence from 192 AD ; the historical relationship between Lin-yi and Champa is not clear.

* Indrapura (" City of Indra ") was the capital of Champa from about 875 to about 1000 AD.

Vijaya became the political and cultural center of Champa around 1000 AD, when the northern capital of Indrapura was abandoned due to pressure from the Viet.

Scholars agree that historically Champa was divided into several regions or principalities spread out from South to North along the coast of modern Vietnam and united by a common language, culture and heritage.

Champa came to serve as an important link in the Spice Route, which stretched from the Persian Gulf to southern China, and later in the Arab maritime routes in Indo-China as a supplier of aloe.

The Minangkabau people in Sumatra Indonesia believe that one of their ancestors came from Champa ; he was called Harimau Campo ( Tiger of Champa ).

The kingdom remained independent from the Chinese who controlled Vietnam's north and in its refusal to submit, Champa frequently waged wars against China as well as other neighboring kingdoms, Đại Việt and Khmer Empire.

The Malaccans reported that Vietnam was in control of Champa and also sought to conquer Malacca, but the Malaccans did not fight back, because they did not want to fight against another state that was a tributary to China without permission from the Chinese.

In 1516 Portuguese traders sailing from Malacca landed in Da Nang, Champa, and some established there.

Elephants are widely reported to have been used to carry out executions in southeast Asia, and were used in Burma and Malaysia from the earliest historical times as well as in the kingdom of Champa on the other side of the Indochinese Peninsula.

It extended from southern Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, north of the Amu Darya ( Oxus ) in the north west to Northern India, as far as Mathura in the south east ( the Rabatak inscription even claims he held Pataliputra and Sri Champa ), and his territory also included Kashmir, where there was a town Kanishkapur, named after him not far from the Baramula Pass and which still contains the base of a large stupa.

Finally, an early Cham script from Champa — in what is now southern Vietnam and southeastern Cambodia — could have been introduced or borrowed and adapted into Baybayin.

The Cham, a Muslim minority who are the descendants of migrants from the old state of Champa, were forced to adopt the Khmer language and customs.

It is based on earlier Vietnamese imperial court music, its primary influences coming from Ming Dynasty's imperial court and later the music of Champa.

By the late fifteenth century, the Vietnamese-who, unlike other Southeast Asian peoples, had emerged from the Sinic civilization sphere-had completely absorbed the once most powerful maritime kingdom of Champa in central Vietnam.

The city of Indrapura, at the site of the modern village of Dong Duong in Quang Nam province ( about from Da Nang ), was the capital of Champa from about 875 to about 1000 AD.

As the string is tightened, the flowers shape into Jasmines, Champa ( one of the five flowers of Lord Krishna ’ s arrows ), and Kadamba ( the flowers of the tree under which Radha would wait for her beloved Lord Krishna ).

He further gave the example of Indian dynasties like Kadamba ( a tree name ) of Banavasi, Pallava ( Sanskrit word for " branch and twig ") of Kanchi and Narikela-Kramukanvaya ( Narikela a Sanskrit word for the Coconut ) of Champa.

File: Kanak Champa ( Pterospermum acerifolium ) tree in Kolkata W IMG 2934. jpg | Tree in Kolkata, West Bengal, India.

* 1076: the Song Chinese allied with southern Vietnamese Champa and Cambodian Chenla to conquer the Lý Dynasty, which was an unsuccessful campaign.

At this time, Vietnam was only just beginning to occupy the Mekong Delta, former territory of the Indianized kingdom of Champa which they had defeated in 1471.

In the 1471 Vietnamese invasion of Champa it suffered a serious defeat at the hands of the Vietnamese, in which 120, 000 people were either captured or killed, and the kingdom was reduced to a small enclave near Nha Trang.

Flag of the FLC – Front de Libération du Champa, which was active during the Vietnam War

At the same time, king Mahendravarman established peace with the neighboring kingdom of Champa through marriage arrangements, and Isnavarman, who succeeded him in 616, moved to a new capital, which, according to a Chinese writer, was inhabited by 20 thousands families.

Major wars with Vietnam were fought in 1069 and again in the 15th century, which eventually led to the defeat of Vijaya and the demise of Champa in 1471.

He also ordered several military expeditions that brought Sui to its greatest territorial extent, one of which, the conquest of Champa in what is now central and southern Vietnam, caused death of thousands of Sui soldiers through malaria.

The name Champaran is a degenerate form of Champaka aranya, a name which dates back to the time when the district was a tract of the forest of Champa ( Magnolia ) trees & was the abode of solitary asectics.

Following independence from China in the 10th century, Vietnam began a southward expansion that saw the annexation of territories formerly belonging to the Champa civilization ( now Central Vietnam ) and parts of the Khmer empire ( today southern Vietnam ), which resulted in minor regional variances in Vietnam's culture due to exposure to these different groups.

These Austronesian-speaking Malayo-Polynesian peoples created the Champa Empire which occupied much of what is now central and lower Vietnam, from Huế to beyond Nha Trang.

During his 55-year ruling that is the longest reign in the history of Vietnamese monarchs, Lý Nhân Tông also experienced several conflicts against Đại Việt's neighbours the Song Dynasty and the kingdom of Champa in which the Song-Đại Việt War ( 1075 – 1076 ) was the fiercest.

By 1414, the Ming was sufficiently well-entrenched in the north of Ðại Việt to allow it to push further, establishing four further subprefectures in a region south of Jiaozhi, which had formerly been administered by Ðại Việt and still free from Chinese influence, as well as some parts of northern border of Champa.