Qualla: Trà Kiệu https://qualla.com/tra-kieu en-us © 2026 Bendyline Thu, 23 Jul 2026 20:34:16 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/w/6/u/f/tra-kieu-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Trà Kiệu https://qualla.com/tra-kieu Trà Kiệu: Introduction https://qualla.com/tra-kieu/ Photo credit Noel Hidalgo Tan, CC BY-SA 4.0. Look closely at a roof tile from Trà Kiệu and you will see a face staring back. Not the pattern of weaving or cord-impressed texture that marks the earliest layers of the site, but a human face — eyes, nose, mouth — pressed into fired clay sometime around the third century CE. Who made these tiles, and why they started putting faces on them, is a question archaeologists have argued over for a century. The answer matters, because it goes to the heart of who built this city in the Thu Bồn river valley and what kind of kingdom they were building.

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]]> Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/6/u/f/tra-kieu-wp/w6uf-tr-ki-u-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Trà Kiệu: The Lion City https://qualla.com/tra-kieu/ Photo credit TuanUt, CC BY-SA 3.0. The name Simhapura translates from Sanskrit as 'Lion City.' It is the name scholars believe the Cham people gave to their capital, the city that is now a quiet village called Trà Kiệu, 18 kilometers inland from Hội An, roughly halfway between that ancient trading port and the gre...

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]]> Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/6/u/f/tra-kieu-wp/w6uf-tr-ki-u-the-lion-city.mp3 0:06 2 full Trà Kiệu: Faces on the Tiles https://qualla.com/tra-kieu/ Photo credit Dragfyre, CC BY-SA 3.0. The ceramic record tells the story in two phases. The earlier phase, Trà Kiệu I, yields utilitarian pottery: ovoid jars, cord-marked vessels, dishes, pedestal cups, and roof tiles bearing textile impressions — the texture of cloth pressed into wet clay before firing. Then somethi...

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]]> Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/6/u/f/tra-kieu-wp/w6uf-tr-ki-u-faces-on-the-tiles.mp3 0:06 3 full Trà Kiệu: Capital of the Champa Kingdom https://qualla.com/tra-kieu/ Photo credit Noel Hidalgo Tan, CC BY-SA 4.0. Whether Simhapura was the capital of the Champa Kingdom, a separate Lin Yi polity, or something in between remains contested. Leonard Aurousseau, working from ancient Chinese records of a fifth-century invasion, proposed that Trà Kiệu was the capital of Lin Yi, a polity distinct ...

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]]> Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/6/u/f/tra-kieu-wp/w6uf-tr-ki-u-capital-of-the-champa-kingdom.mp3 0:06 4 full Trà Kiệu: A Village with a Long Memory https://qualla.com/tra-kieu/ Photo credit Bún bòa, CC BY-SA 4.0. Trà Kiệu's history did not stop with the Cham. In 1885, during the Cần Vương anti-French resistance movement, the Catholic residents of the village successfully defended it against siege, an event they attributed to a Marian apparition. Thirteen years later, a shrine to Our Lady ...

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