The Hephthalites, a people of obscure origin…

424 CE to 435 CE

The Hephthalites, a people of obscure origin called Ephthalites by the Greeks and Hunas by the Indians, are an agricultural people with a developed set of laws.

First mentioned by the Chinese, who described them as living in Dzungaria in 125, they had displaced the Scythians and conquered Sogdia and Khorasan before 425, in which year they cross the Syr Darya (Jaxartes) River and invade Sassanian Persia.

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Khujand Leninabad Tajikistan View →

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Persian people View → Scythians, or Sakas View → Sogdia View → Transoxiana View → Khorasan, Greater View → Persian Empire, Sassanid, or Sasanid View → Huna people View → Hephthalite Empire View →

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India, Classical View → Late Antiquity View → Migration Period View →

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