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Conflict South Asia

Hephthalite Wars

420 CE – 560 CE · 140 years

The Hephthalites carved out a vast Central Asian empire, defeating the Sassanids and destroying the Gupta dynasty before being crushed by a Sassanid-Göktürk alliance.

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Belligerents

The main peoples, kingdoms and states involved.

  • Hephthalite (White Hun) Empire
  • Sassanid Persia, Gupta India, Göktürks

Key moments

Defining events in the Hephthalite Wars.

  1. 484 Defeat of Sassanid Peroz I
  2. c. 500 Destruction of Gupta India
  3. 560 Sassanid-Göktürk destruction of Hephthalites

Elsewhere in South Asia at the time

Records whose own span overlaps this one, found by the same test the canvas draws with. The bar under each card is where it sits inside this one.

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Taxila

600 BCE – 500 CE

Polity · South Asia

Gupta Empire

300 CE – 550 CE

Landmark · South Asia

Sigiriya

477 CE – still standing

Polity · South Asia

Kadambas

345 CE – 525 CE

Landmark · South Asia

Kashi Vishwanath Temple

490 CE – still standing

Polity · South Asia

Vishnu-Kundins

Attested 500 CE

Landmark · South Asia

Mount Everest

3000 BCE – still standing

Polity · South Asia

Chalukya Empire

543 CE – 1200 CE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 420 CE and 560 CE.

477 CE Sigiriya 490 CE Kashi Vishwanath Temple 500 CE Colombo 451 CE Battle of the Catalaunian Plains 470 CE Yazd Atash Behram

And in the rest of the world

Records running through the same years, on the other side of the map.

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