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The Hephthalites (Bactrian: ηβοδαλο, romanized: Ebodalo), sometimes called the White Huns (also known as the White Hunas, in Iranian as the Spet Xyon and in Sanskrit as the Sveta-huna), were a people who lived in Central Asia during the 5th to 8th centuries CE, part of the larger group of the Iranian Huns.
Jun 22, 2015 · The White Huns were a race of largely nomadic peoples who were a part of the Hunnic tribes of Central Asia. They ruled over an expansive area stretching from the Central Asian lands all the way to the Western Indian Subcontinent.
Hephthalite, member of a people important in the history of India and Persia during the 5th and 6th centuries ce. According to Chinese chronicles, they were originally a tribe living to the north of the Great Wall and were known as Hoa or Hoadun. Elsewhere they were called White Huns or Hunas.
mid-fifth century the Hephthalites increased greatly in strength and Tokharistan, with the surrounding regions, came under their rule. According to Harmatta, ‘it is likely that the Hephthalites attacked the Transox[an]ian territory of the Kidarites in 466’ and at the same
Dec 15, 2003 · HEPHTHALITES (Arabic Hayṭāl, pl. Hayāṭela), a people who formed apparently the second wave of “Hunnish” tribal invaders to impinge on the Iranian and Indian worlds from the mid-fourth century C.E.
The Hephthalites (sometimes called “White Huns”, also known as Hoa or Hoa-tun by the Chinese, Ephthalites by the Greeks, and Hunas by the Indians) were a confederation of nomadic peoples in Central Asian during the 5th and 6th centuries AD. Their precise origins and composition remain obscure.
The Hephthalite Empire. The Hephthalites dominated Central Asia from the mid-fifth to the mid-sixth centuries, with a powerful army that apparently intimidated the Sasanian troops again whom they fought.
Jun 19, 2021 · Hephthalites or White Huns were a mysterious group of warrior tribe. Largely nomadic, a part of the Hunnic tribes of Central Asia. They ruled over an expansive area stretching from the Central Asian lands all the way to the Indian Subcontinent. They integrated in the culture of the lands they ruled.
Dec 7, 2017 · Following the defeat of the Kidarites in 466, the Hephthalite confederacy appears to have set about expanding its power over the rest of Tokharistan from an eastern base, possibly in the Badakhshan region.
Jun 5, 2020 · Rather than qualifying these people as ‘sedentary’ and the core-elite of the Hephthalites as ‘nomads’ it is more appropriate to describe the emerging empire of the Hephthalites (as well as the empires of the Kidarites and the Alkhan) as one of the first imperial state formations of Eurasia.
