Who were the Hephthalites/White Huns ?

[Szegedist]

The Hephthalites (or Ephthalites), also known as the White Huns, were a nomadic confederation in Central Asia during the late antiquity period. The Hephthalite Empire, at the height of its power (in the first half of the 6th century), was located in the territories of present-day Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Pakistan, India and China. The stronghold of the Hephthalite power was Tokharistan on the northern slopes of the Hindukush, present-day northeastern Afghanistan. By 479, the Hephthalites had conquered Sogdiana and driven the Kidarites westwards, and by 493 they had captured areas of present-day northwestern China (Dzungaria and the Tarim Basin). By the end of the 5th century, the Hephthalites overthrew the Indian Gupta Empire to their southeast and conquered northern and central India. But later they were defeated and driven out of India by the Indian kings Yasodharman and Narasimhagupta in the 6th century.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hephthalite_Empire

[Szegedist]

Related links
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xionites

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huna_people

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kidarites

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uar

[Proto-Shaman]

Hephtalites are the reason why Pashtuns carry the Turkic R1a-L342.2 subclade and nearly every 2nd Pashtun surname is Khan.

[Burkean]

The Hephthalites were the Hephthalites. They were very different from the most of Huns, both anthropologically and culturally and were arable farmers with cities and culture.

[Arhat]

Hephtalites are the reason why Pashtuns carry the Turkic R1a-L342.2 subclade and nearly every 2nd Pashtun surname is Khan.

Are you serious? The title khan among pashtuns is of much later origin.Also the map is ridicolous.Southern pashtuns have the highest percentages of r1a and according to this map people of kandahar have almost no r1a.You seem to have made your own fake map

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