Chronograph Русский Open the atlasAtlas
People / group450–560

Hephthalites

People of Central Asia, the “White Huns”. In the mid-5th century they rose to power in Bactria in place of the Kidarites (the change is dated to about 450 or to 466–467); in 484 they defeated and killed the Sasanian king Peroz I, and around 560 the Turks and the Sasanians destroyed their empire.

Dates
c. 450 – c. 560
Events
2 events
Regions
Central and Northern Asia
In the threads
The Steppe and Central Asia (1st–5th c.), Middle East and Egypt (1st–5th c.)

Show the path in the atlas

Events

Often together with

Sources

  1. Wikipedia (English): Hephthalites
  2. Wikipedia (Russian): Эфталиты
  3. Wikidata: Q26576