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The "White Huns", also known as the White Hunas, in Iranian as the Spet Xyon, and in Sanskrit as the Sveta-huna, were a subgroup of the Huna and/or Xionites. The White Huns are sometimes regarded as synonymous with the Hephthalites but may have included other tribes as well. They are known for their historical conquest and occupation of North India, particularly the Punjab region.[1][2]
^Dignas, Assistant Professor of History Beate; Dignas, Beate; Winter, Engelbert (13 September 2007). Rome and Persia in Late Antiquity: Neighbours and Rivals. Cambridge University Press. p. 97. ISBN 978-0-521-84925-8.
^Goldsworthy, Adrian; Ltd, Dr Adrian Goldsworthy (2 April 2009). The Fall of the West: The Death of the Roman Superpower. Orion. ISBN 978-0-297-85760-0.
tribes of the Rouran. Hephthalites were divided into two groups: whitehuns and red huns. The latter owe their name to red headdresses, red armor, and a...
origin of the Huns and their relationship to other peoples identified in ancient sources as Iranian Huns such as the Xionites, the Alchon Huns, the Kidarites...
Hephthalite, the Kidarites, the Alchon Huns (also known as the Alxon, Alakhana, Walxon etc.) and the Nezak Huns. Such names, along with that of the Harahunas...
sometimes call these people 'Huns', but their origin is unclear. It is probable that they were not related to the Huns who appeared on the south Russian...
have been Huns... Kim, Hyun Jin (19 November 2015). "THE HUNS OF CENTRAL ASIA AND SOUTH ASIA: THE KIDARITE AND HEPHTHALITE WHITEHUNS". The Huns. Routledge...
captured by the Central Asian Kidarite kingdom in the early 400s CE. The WhiteHuns devastated ancient Peshawar in the 460s CE, and ravaged the entire region...
Procopius of Caesarea (Book I. ch. 3), related the Huns of Europe with the Hephthalites or "WhiteHuns" who subjugated the Sassanids and invaded northwestern...
Huns, Karmir Xyon (in Iranian) and Kermichiones (in European languages) usually refer to: Alchon Huns Kidarites Hephthalites Huna people HunsWhite Huns...
first name for Altit village was Hunukushal, meaning the village of Huns. The Huns came from the Huang-Ho valley in China. The name later changed to Broshal...
back eastward. The Huns returned at the end of the 5th century and defeated Peroz I (457–484) in 483. Following this victory, the Huns invaded and plundered...
Spet Xyon are often rendered as "Red Huns" and "WhiteHuns", reflecting speculation that the Xyon were linked to Huns recorded simultaneously in Europe....
disastrous adventures, the destruction of Prester John's Kingdom by the WhiteHuns followed by a long stint of slavery at the hands of the Old Man of the...
his name. Higher up in India, that is, farther to the north, are the WhiteHuns. The one called Gollas when going to war takes with him, it is said, no...
would be unfavourable to the people of Chola, the Afghans (Avagāṇa), the whiteHuns and the Chinese." — Varāha Mihira, 6th century CE, chapt. 11, verse 61...
with the dissolution of the Epthalite (WhiteHuns) confederacy. ... Of the contribution of the Epthalites (WhiteHuns) to the ethnogenesis of the Pashtuns...
Huns under Toramana and Mihirakula broke through the Gupta defences in the northwest, and much of the empire in the northwest was overrun by the Huns...
Sassanian Empire to the south from the peoples to the north, probably the WhiteHuns. In his book Empires and Walls, Chaichian (2014) questions the validity...
or WhiteHuns brought about the collapse of the Gupta empire, which broke up into smaller states. The King Yasodharman of Malwa defeated the Huns in 528...
The site was devastated by the WhiteHuns in the 5th century CE, and then abandoned. Subsequent rulers, such as the Hun king Mihirakula, persecuted the...
by nomadic invaders from Central Asia, including the Saka, Yuezhi, and WhiteHuns. Indian empires rarely extended their control beyond the pass, with the...
common ...; all have one wife" whom they share. The Hoa-tun (Hephthalites, WhiteHuns) "living to the north of the Great Wall ... practiced polyandry." Among...
457–509 Samarqand was part of the Kidarite state. After the Hephtalites ("WhiteHuns") conquered Samarqand, they controlled it until the Göktürks, in an alliance...
region after the second half of the fifth century when the Hephthalite WhiteHuns invaded Gandhāra. After the collapse of Hephthalite rule in the 6th century...
16 Great Turkic Empires White flag with three yellow stars placed vertically in upper hoist. White may refer to the WhiteHuns, which was one of the terms...
war among Persia, the Kidarite State, and the Huns in Western Gandhara. The WhiteHuns and Alchon Huns swept over Gandhāra and Punjab around 470 CE, causing...
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