The steep hills between the coast and the Lang Bian plateau, from Khánh Sơn to Hàm Thuận Bắc: the Raglai, whose language is close to Cham, and the Chru on the Lang Bian side.
They stand between the Cham coast and the Koho. No source for 1200; the Cham kings deal with them as with other hill peoples, by gifts and trade. The group names are those of the nineteenth and twentieth century; the Chinese and Cham sources of the time use general labels. We use the later name only to say which people the ground is for, and we read their society backwards from later ethnography: villages with headmen and elders, shifting fields, no kings and no towns.
Who holds it
- Title
- Village headmen and councils of elders; no overall chief is known for 1200
- Confidence
- low
Later ethnography read backwards; Chinese trade lists and Cham inscriptions that name hill goods (board)
Overlord
Kauthara and Panduranga trade with them; no tax is recorded.
How things stand that morning
Governing itself under village headmen; the lowland courts trade with it and claim it in name; not pinned further.
Wealth
Forest goods, cattle.
Military
Village fighters; no numbers.
Places of note
- Khanh Son: Raglai hills
Where the sources disagree
Evidence: Chinese trade lists, Cham inscriptions that name hill goods, and ethnography written six centuries later (board); no dated event for 1200.
On the map: A union of modern districts standing for the people's country; there was no border, and the groups overlapped and traded across any line we draw.
Sources and studies
- OMNIA board notes for the Vietnam and Champa area (a lead, not a source)
Last revised 4 November 2026. Published 4 November 2026. Suggest a correction on the OMNIA Discord.