Po Phaok The

Po Phaok The
Ruler of Champa
Ruler of Champa
Reign1828–1832
PredecessorPo Klan Thu
Successornone
Deputy rulerPo Dhar Kaok
Deputy ruler of Champa
Reign1822–1829
PredecessorPo Klan Thu
SuccessorPo Dhar Kaok
RulerPo Klan Thu
Born?
Băl Canar, Panduranga, Champa
(in present-day Phan Rí Cửa, Tuy Phong District, Bình Thuận Province, Vietnam)
Died1835
Huế, Vietnam
Names
Po Phaok The
Nguyễn Văn Thừa ()
Regnal name
Thuận Thành trấn Khâm sai Thống binh cai cơ (順城鎮欽差統兵該奇)
FatherPo Saong Nyung Ceng

Po Phaok The (?–1835), also known as Po Phaok[1] or Cei Phaok The, was the last ruler of Champa from 1828 to 1832. His Vietnamese name was Nguyễn Văn Thừa (阮文承). He lived at a time when the Vietnamese monarch strove to centralize the country, which led to the demise of Champa (in Vietnamese, the Principality of Thuận Thành) as a vassal polity. The ruler himself was deposed and ended his life a victim of the suspicions of Emperor Minh Mạng.

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