The Hepthalites, also known as the White…
426 CE
The Hepthalites, also known as the White Huns, were first mentioned by the Chinese, who described them as living in Dzungaria around CE 125.
Chinese chronicles state that they were originally a tribe of the Yuezhi, living to the north of the Great Wall, and subject to the Rouran (Jwen-Jwen), as were some Turkic peoples at the time.
Their original name was Hoa or Hoa-tun; subsequently they named themselves Ye-tha-i-li-to (or, more briefly, Ye-tha), after their royal family, which descended from one of the five Yuezhi families which also included the Kushan.
They had displaced the Scythians and conquered Sogdiana and Khorasan before 425.
After that, they cross the Syr Darya (Jaxartes) River and invade Persian lands.
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