Huns

The Hephthalites (Bactrian: ηβοδαλο, romanized: Ebodalo) sometimes called as the White Huns (also known as Spet Xyon in Iranian and as the Sveta-huna in Prakrit) were a people who lived in Central Asia during the 5th to 8th centuries CE, part of the larger group of Eastern Iranian Huns. They formed an empire, the Imperial Hephthalites, and were militarily important from 450 CE, when they defeated the Kidarites, to 560 CE, when combined forces from the First Turkic Khaganate and the Sasanian Empire defeated them. After 560 CE, they established "principalities" in the area of Tokharistan, under the suzerainty of the Western Turks (in the areas north of the Oxus) and of the Sasanian Empire (in the areas south of the Oxus), before the Tokhara Yabghus took over in 625.

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• Otto J. Mänchen-Helfen: The Legend of the Origin of the Huns (published in Byzantion, vol. XVII, 1944–45, pp. 244–251)
• E. A. Thompson: A History of Attila and the Huns (London, Oxford University Press, 1948)
• J. Webster: The Huns and Existentialist Thought (Loudonville, Siena College Press, 2006)
• Coinage and History of the White Huns- Waleed Ziad- Articles from the 'Journal of the Oriental Numismatic Society', 2004-2006 Archived 2007-08-21 at the Wayback Machine
• The History Files Europe: The Origins of the Huns, based on conversations with Kemal Cemal, Turkey, 2002