
The Orang Dampuan were slaughtered by envious native Sulu Buranuns due to the wealth of the Orang Dampuan.

Champa and Sulu engaged in commerce with each other which resulted in merchant Chams settling in Sulu during the 10th-13th centuries. These Chams in southwestern Philippines were called Orang Dampuan. The Chams then migrated to the Sulu archipelago, home of the then Hindu would-be Sulu Sultanate. ĭuring 1000 AD, there was a commercial rivalry for Chinese trade between the Champa Civilization in Central and South Vietnam vs the Rajahnate of Butuan in Southern Philippines. The Song dynasty's " The History of Song", show that the Filipino nation of Ma-i at Mindoro was a mere two days’ sail from Champa (A nation that once occupied central Vietnam) and that Champa’s and Mai’s merchants traded frequently with each other. Likewise, by 1000 BC, bronze drums from the Dong Son Culture in Hanoi, were exported to ports in the Philippines.

Ships from Luzon in the Philippine archipelago came to the great port of Vietnam in the Gulf of Tonkin to trade.īy 2000–1500 BC, Jade that was manufactured in the Philippines using raw materials from Taiwan, ended up in Vietnamese ports. There was proof that inhabitants of both countries were already involved in maritime trade prior to the arrival of Europeans. Relations between the Philippines and Vietnam began centuries ago. Cham Couple from Champa (in modern-day Southern Vietnam) in the Philippines, c.
