ABSTRACT
This chapter reconstructs some aspects of Cham-Viet relations in Binh Thuan and Ninh Thuan through the consultation of these sources as well as others. The present chapter attempts to investigate the nature of Cham-Vietnamese relations during the seventeenth-eighteenth centuries when territories of Champa in the region of Panduranga came under Vietnamese control. The Vietnamese southern advance into the region at this time was spearheaded by the Nguyen family. For many years, research on relations between Nguyen and the Cham during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries relied heavily on official Vietnamese sources. When the patriarch of the Nguyen family, Nguyen Hoang took over the province of Thuan Hoa in 1558. It is obvious that by 1693 Champa was no longer an independent entity, but had been integrated into the Nguyen domain. The Royal Archives of Champa provide glimpses into some aspects of economic life of the Cham people living in Binh Thuan.
