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Hephthalites

nomadic confederation in Central Asia during the late antiquity period

10 dated entries naming Hephthalites, drawn from 10 separate years between 427 CE and 709 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

Also written as Ephthalite, Hephthalite, Hephthalite Empire in the source articles; Wikipedia redirects those to the same subject, so their entries are on this page.

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5th century

  • 427The 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.source
  • 440The Hephthalites (White Huns) move south from the Altai Mountains region into Transoxiana, Bactria, Khorasan and eastern Persia.source
  • 484The 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.source
  • 498Kavadh 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.source

6th century

  • 505The white Huns (Hephthalites) from the Caucasus invade the Persian Empire.source
  • 528The Hephthalites (White Huns) move from the Hindu Kush into the Punjab region, and eastward across the Ganges Delta, ravaging cities and Buddhist monasteries.source
  • 541The Uyghurs come under the rule of the Hephthalites (approximate date).source
  • 543The Hephthalites threaten the Sasanian Empire from the East. They extend their domain in Central Asia (approximate date).source
  • 557The Göktürks under Muqan Qaghan ally with the Persian Empire, and destroy the Hephthalites (White Huns) in Central Asia.source

8th century

  • 709After 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.source

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