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The monumental area of Mỹ Sơn, whose actual name means “beautiful mountain”, was located in the ancient and blooming Amarāvatī , one of the five provinces in the kingdom of the Cham population, who dwelled in central Vietnam from the 2nd century. In the beginning their reign was known as Lin Ly; only after the 6th century did it become the Champa reign (Vickery 2005 ). Nowadays Mỹ Sơn extends over almost 15 ha in the Quảng Nam province (central Vietnam), approximately 50 km south-west from the city of Dà Nẵng. The archeological area is located in a small valley surrounded by a semicircular chain of low mountains, from which mount Hòn Châu rises, also named Răng Mèo(“the cat's tooth”) by the local population for its peculiar shape (Fig. 4.1 ).
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Condoleo, P. (2010). The Mỹ Sơn Temples in Vietnam: Construction Techniques and Structural Issues. In: Dan, M.B., Přikryl, R., Török, Á. (eds) Materials, Technologies and Practice in Historic Heritage Structures. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2684-2_4
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