No sooner had Persia recovered from the…
481 CE
No sooner had Persia recovered from the famine, than war broke out with the Hephthalites, who, having displaced the Scythians and conquered Sogdiana and Khorasan before 425, had later crossed the Syr Darya (Jaxartes) River and invaded Persian lands.
In Persia, they were initially held off by Bahram Gur.
Peroz, provoked by an insult by Khush-Newaz, leads an invasion of the Hephthalite country forcing them to retreat, but when Peroz pursues the Hephthalites to the hills, he suffers a crushing defeat, is captured and forced to surrender his son Kavadh I to Khush-Newaz as a hostage until the ransom is paid.
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Persian people
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Zoroastrians
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Jews
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Transoxiana
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Iberia, Caucasian (Kartli, Kingdom of)
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Persian Empire, Sassanid, or Sasanid
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Khorasan, Greater
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Christians, Armenian Apostolic Orthodox
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Kidarites
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Hephthalite Empire
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Christians, Eastern (Diophysite, or “Nestorian”) (Church of the East)
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Armenia, or Persarmenia, (Persian vassal) Marzabanate of
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Christianity, Chalcedonian
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