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Hephthalites

Hephthalites is the plural of Hephthalite.

Meaning of Hephthalite

Noun

Hephthalite (plural Hephthalites)

  1. (historical) Any of a people who comprised a nomadic confederation in Central Asia during the 5th–6th centuries CE.
    • From the mid-fifth to the mid-sixth century Central Asia was ruled by the Hephthalite tribes. There are many gaps in our knowledge of the origin of the Hephthalites and the formation of their state, the first difficulty being that they are given different names in the various sources.1999, B. A. Litvinsky, “6: The Hephthalite Empire”, in B. A. Litvinsky, Zhang Guang-Da, R. Shabani Samghabardi, editors, History of Civilizations of Central Asia, Volume III: The crossroads of...
    Synonyms:
    White Hun

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Questions about Hephthalites

What is Hephthalites the plural of?
Hephthalites is the plural of Hephthalite.

Words near Hephthalites in the dictionary

  1. Hephaistos
  2. Hephaistus
  3. Hephestos
  4. Hephestus
  5. Hephthalite
  6. Hephthalites
  7. hephthemimer
  8. hephthemimeral
  9. hephthemimers
  10. Hephzibah
  11. Hephæstos

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