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Xionites, Chionites, or
Chionitae (Middle Persian: Xiyōn or Hiyōn; Avestan: Xiiaona;
Sogdian xwn;
Pahlavi Xyōn) were a
nomadic people in the
Central Asian...
- has
found a
connection between the
Xionites and Göbl's
first wave of
Iranian Huns. Ca. 350 a
group called the
Xionites began to
attack the S****anid Empire...
- ("Red
Xionites" or, more controversially, "Red Huns"), – a
major subdivision of the
Chionites (
Xionites),
alongside the Spet Xyon ("White
Xionites"). In...
- Indo-Iranians
Scythia Tocharians Yuezhi Donghu Wusun Xiongnu Huns
Hunas Xionites Hephthalites Pannonian Avars Turks Four
Barbarians Five
Barbarians Eurasian...
- by the Uar (also
known as the Ouar, Warr or Var) and the
Xionites.[page needed] The
Xionites had
likely been
speakers of
Iranian and/or
Turkic languages...
- from
Henan for the
first time. In 722 BC, when Chang'an was
devastated by
Xionites invasions, the
capital was
moved back east to Luoyang. This
began the Spring...
- and in
Sanskrit as the Sveta-huna, were a
subgroup of the Huna and/or
Xionites. The
White Huns are
sometimes regarded as
synonymous with the Hephthalites...
- Indo-Parthians from 20 to 225 AD and the
Kushans from 110 BC to 225 AD, the
Xionites (the
Kidarites from 360 to 465 AD and the
Hephthalites from 450 to 565...
- 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...
- city. In 420 AD, the Indo-S****anids were
driven out of
Afghanistan by the
Xionite tribe known as the Kidarites, who were then
replaced in the 460s by the...
