They were a tribal confederation and included both nomadic and settled urban communities. They formed part of the four major states known collectively as Xyon (Xionites) or Huna, being preceded by the Kidarites and by the Alkhon, and succeeded by the Nezak Huns and by the First Turkic Khaganate.

Jun 22, 2015 · One of these tribes of the Yueh Zhi was the White Huns or Hephthalites. According to Richard Heli, Chinese chroniclers state that they were known as the Ye-ti-li-do, or Yeda but they are also known as the people of Hua by the same chroniclers.

Hephthalite, member of a people important in the history of India and Persia during the 5th and 6th centuries ce. According to Chinese chronicles, they were originally a tribe living to the north of the Great Wall and were known as Hoa or Hoadun. …

The Hephthalites, [1] also known as the White Huns (Sanskrit: Sveta-huna; Old Persian: Spet Xyon; Bactrian: Εβοδαλο, or Ebodalo in Romanized form), [2][3] were an ethnic group whose members lived in Central Asia from the 5th to 8th century CE, part of the larger group of the Iranian Huns. [4][5][better source needed][dubious – discuss]

Jun 7, 2013 · HEPHTHALITES (Arabic Hayṭāl, pl. Hayāṭela), a people who formed apparently the second wave of “Hunnish” tribal invaders to impinge on the Iranian and Indian worlds from the mid-fourth century C.E.

The Hephthalites (sometimes called “White Huns”, also known as Hoa or Hoa-tun by the Chinese, Ephthalites by the Greeks, and Hunas by the Indians) were a confederation of nomadic peoples in Central Asian during the 5th and 6th centuries AD. Their …

The Hephthalites conquer several provinces of the former empire, including Malwa, while Gujarat and Thaneshwar break away under local dynasties. The surviving Guptas are forced south and east, to Jabbalpur (in modern Madhya Pradesh) and …

The Hephthalites, also known as the Ephthalites, were a Central Asian steppe people who rose to military fame circa 450-560 AD. They were a tribal confederation made up by both nomads and settled urban communities.

From the mid-fifth to the mid-sixth century Central Asia was ruled by the Hephthalite tribes. There are many gaps in our knowledge of the origin of the Hephthalites and the for-mation of their state, the first difficulty being that they are given different names in the var-ious sources.

The Hephthalites (xbc|ηβοδαλο|translit= Ebodalo), sometimes called the White Huns (also known as the White Hunas, in Iranian as the Spet Xyon and in Prakrit as the Sveta-huna), [5][6] were a people who lived in Central Asia during the 5th to 8th centuries CE, part of the larger group of Eastern Iranian Huns. [7]