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    The Alchon Huns, (Bactrian: αλχον(ν)ο Alkhon(n)o or αλχαν(ν)ο Alkhan(n)o) also known as the Alkhan, Alchono, Alxon, Alkhon, Alakhana, and Walxon, were...
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  • seals) Rīsthal ALCHON HUNS HEPHTHALITES NEZAK HUNS SASA- NIANS GUPTAS VAKATAKAS ZHANGZHUNG KINGDOM Northern Wei Tocharians The Alchon Huns, who invaded...
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  • diplomatic missions from the Tang dynasty, and some coexisted with the Alchon Huns from about the mid-sixth century. The polity collapsed in the mid-seventh...
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  • the Alchon Huns around 515, during the reign of Toramana. During the reign of his son, Mihirakula, the empire reached its zenith. The Alchon Huns were...
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  • origin of the Huns and their relationship to other peoples identified in ancient sources as Iranian Huns such as the Xionites, the Alchon Huns, the Kidarites...
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  • centuries, but it declined and was destroyed after the invasion of the Alchon Huns in the 5th century. Siddhartha shown as a bejeweled prince (before the...
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    Shamozi Stupa Swat and the wider region of Gandhara were overrun by the Alchon Huns around about 465 CE. Under the rule of Mihirakula, Buddhism was suppressed...
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  • and/or Hephthalite, the Kidarites, the Alchon Huns (also known as the Alxon, Alakhana, Walxon etc.) and the Nezak Huns. Such names, along with that of the...
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    Sialkot (section Alchon Huns)
    the Alchon Huns around 515, during the reign of Toramana. During the reign of his son, Mihirakula, the empire reached its zenith. The Alchon Huns were...
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  • suggest that the Alchon Huns may have been participants to the local Buddhist culture. Later, however, the attitude of the Alchons towards Buddhism is...
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    century by the invasions of the Alchon Huns (sometimes considered as a branch of the Hephthalites), and later the Nezak Huns.[citation needed] One of the...
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    succeeded by the Hephthalites in Bactria and the Nezak Huns in the Hindu Kush. The names of the Alchon kings are known from their extensive coinage, Buddhist...
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    invaders from the north. These were the Kidarites, the Hephthalites, the Alchon Huns, and the Nezaks: The four Huna tribes to rule Afghanistan. These invaders...
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    sometimes referred to as Mihiragula or Mahiragula, was the second and last Alchon Hun king of northwestern region of the Indian subcontinent between 502 and...
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  • Red Huns, Karmir Xyon (in Iranian) and Kermichiones (in European languages) usually refer to: Alchon Huns Kidarites Hephthalites Huna people Huns White...
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  • feudatories, as well as the invasion by the Huna peoples (Kidarites and Alchon Huns) from Central Asia. After the collapse of the Gupta Empire in the 6th...
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    Alchon Hun rulers of northwestern India, it is "very likely" that they were themselves descendants of the Alchon Huns in the Kashmir area. The Alchon...
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    appear clearly in most of the portraits of rulers in the coinage of the Alchon Huns, and most visibly on the coinage of Khingila. These elongated skulls...
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    (Bactrian: Meyam, Brahmi: Me-ha-ma), ruled c.461-493, was a king of Alchon Huns dynasty. He is little known, but the Talagan copper scroll mentions him...
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    discussed. Göbl describes four groups: Kidarites, Alchons, Nezaks, and Hephthalites as the Iranian Huns based on numismatic evidence available at his time...
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  • Kidarites (category Huns)
    called them Kidarite Huns, or "Huns who are Kidarites". The Huna/Xionite tribes are often linked, albeit controversially, to the Huns who invaded Eastern...
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    Toramana") was a ruler of the Alchon Huns in the 6th century CE. Around the middle of the 6th century CE, the Alchons, after having extensively invaded...
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  • Huns" and/or Kidarites; "Alchon Huns" "White Huns", possibly synonymous with, or included the Hephtalites "Nezak Huns" Hun clan, A clan of south Asian...
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    CE, between the Alchon Hun emperor Mihirakula and a confederation of Indian rulers led by king Yashodharman of Malwa. The Alchon Huns under their able...
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    Sondani Choti Sadri Kura Kausambi (Toramana seals) Rīsthal ALCHON HUNS HEPHTHALITES NEZAK HUNS SASA- NIANS RAIS GUPTAS VAKATAKAS ZHANGZHUNG KINGDOM Northern...
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    was a king of the Alchon Huns who ruled in northern India in the late 5th and the early 6th century CE. Toramana consolidated the Alchon power in Punjab...
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    550 CE when it was exposed to the ravages of the Alchon Huns. After the decline of the Alchon Huns, it became the main base of the new kingdom of Gurjara...
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    Achaemenid conquest of the Indus Valley Indo-Parthian Kingdom Kushan Empire Alchon Huns Seleucid–Mauryan war Middle Kingdoms Middle kingdoms Chola Middle Ages...
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    preference give to the propagation of Hinduism, and later collapsed after the Alchon Hun persecution, resulting in it being sparsely practiced in only about ten...
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    invasions of north India by various groups such as Indo-Iranian Huns, Hephthalite Huns, Alchon Huns, Turco-Mongols, Arabs, and Persians, and subsequent Islamic...
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