Editing History of Laos (section)

===Champa kingdom===
[[File:Lower Terrace Wat Phu 0509.jpg|thumbnail|Lower terrace of the [[Wat Phu]] mountain complex, [[Champasak Province|Champasak]]|alt=]]
Funan expanded and incorporated the Champasak region by the sixth century CE, when it was replaced by its successor polity [[Chenla]]. Chenla occupied areas of what later is Laos as it accounts for the earliest kingdom on Laotian soil.<ref name="Hal1985"/><ref>National Library of Australia.  [http://www.nla.gov.au/asian/form/coedes2.html Asia's French Connection : George Coedes and the Coedes Collection] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111021052224/http://www.nla.gov.au/asian/form/coedes2.html |date=21 October 2011 }}</ref>