{"slug": "hephthalites", "label": "Hephthalites", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hephthalites", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q26576", "qid": "Q26576", "description": "nomadic confederation in Central Asia during the late antiquity period", "entries": 10, "years": 10, "span": [427, 709], "span_label": ["427 CE", "709 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 7}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 1}, {"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 1}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 1}], "also_known_as": ["Ephthalite", "Hephthalite", "Hephthalite Empire"], "related": [{"slug": "sasanian-empire", "label": "Sasanian Empire", "shared": 5}, {"slug": "huns", "label": "Huns", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "khorasan", "label": "Khorasan", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "bactria", "label": "Bactria", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "byzantine-empire", "label": "Byzantine Empire", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "bahram-v", "label": "Bahram V", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "iran", "label": "Iran", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "ctesiphon", "label": "Ctesiphon", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "persians", "label": "Persians", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "coronation", "label": "Coronation", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "transoxiana", "label": "Transoxiana", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "kavad-i", "label": "Kavad I", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 427, "year_label": "427 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The Ephthalites (White Huns) invade Western Asia and reduce the Sasanian Empire threat to the Eastern Roman Empire. King Bahram V sends an expeditionary force into Khorasan.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364738726#Asia", "title": "427", "revid": 1364738726, "section": "Events › By place › Asia"}}, {"year": 440, "year_label": "440 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "The Hephthalites (White Huns) move south from the Altai Mountains region into Transoxiana, Bactria, Khorasan and eastern Persia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364748079#Persia", "title": "440", "revid": 1364748079, "section": "Events › By place › Persia"}}, {"year": 484, "year_label": "484 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The Hephthalites (White Huns) invade Persia. King Peroz I gathers an army of 50,000-100,000 men, and places his brother Balash at the head of the government in Ctesiphon. At the Battle of Herat, the Persians are ambushed and defeated. Peroz I is killed, whose body is not found. Balash is crowned and becomes king of Persia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364749511#Asia", "title": "484", "revid": 1364749511, "section": "Events › By place › Asia"}}, {"year": 498, "year_label": "498 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Kavadh I returns from exile with support of 30,000 Hephthalites (White Huns), and again assumes the Sassanid throne. He punishes his opponents and probably his brother Djamasp, who usurped the throne from him.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365508717#Persia", "title": "498", "revid": 1365508717, "section": "Events › By place › Persia"}}, {"year": 505, "year_label": "505 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The white Huns (Hephthalites) from the Caucasus invade the Persian Empire.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364907851#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "505", "revid": 1364907851, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}, {"year": 528, "year_label": "528 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "The Hephthalites (White Huns) move from the Hindu Kush into the Punjab region, and eastward across the Ganges Delta, ravaging cities and Buddhist monasteries.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340793729#Asia", "title": "528", "revid": 1340793729, "section": "Events › By place › Asia"}}, {"year": 541, "year_label": "541 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "The Uyghurs come under the rule of the Hephthalites (approximate date).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1299131059#Asia", "title": "541", "revid": 1299131059, "section": "Events › By place › Asia"}}, {"year": 543, "year_label": "543 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The Hephthalites threaten the Sasanian Empire from the East. They extend their domain in Central Asia (approximate date).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340799598#Persia", "title": "543", "revid": 1340799598, "section": "Events › By place › Persia"}}, {"year": 557, "year_label": "557 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The Göktürks under Muqan Qaghan ally with the Persian Empire, and destroy the Hephthalites (White Huns) in Central Asia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340800259#Asia", "title": "557", "revid": 1340800259, "section": "Events › By place › Asia"}}, {"year": 709, "year_label": "709 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "After two years of failed efforts, Qutayba ibn Muslim captures Bukhara (Uzbekistan) for the Umayyad Caliphate. The Hephthalite princes of Tokharistan rebel against the Arabs, but are swiftly subdued by Qutayba.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340807109#Arabian_Empire", "title": "709", "revid": 1340807109, "section": "Events › By place › Arabian Empire"}}]}