Ly Thai Tong campaigns against Champa

1029

The young Vietnamese king launched a military expedition against the Cham kingdom to the south, asserting Ly dynasty authority over the contested borderlands of central Vietnam. The campaign established a pattern of Vietnamese southward expansion that would continue for centuries, gradually absorbing Cham territory into the expanding Vietnamese state. The Cham, inheritors of an Indianized maritime civilization, would resist this pressure for another five hundred years.