The heart of Asia : $b A history of Russian Turkestan and the Central Asian Khanates from the earliest times — John Shaqi
The heart of Asia : $b A history of Russian Turkestan and the Central Asian Khanates from the earliest timesSkrine, Francis Henry
History
The heart of Asia : $b A history of Russian Turkestan and the Central Asian Khanates from the earliest times
Skrine, Francis Henry
Asia, Central -- History; Asia, Central -- Relations -- Russia; Russia -- Relations -- Asia, Central
The last Kushan king of whom we find a trace in history was named
Kitolo. He conquered Gāndhāra, or Kandahār; but was forced to return to
his own dominion by an irruption of White Huns. The son whom he left
in charge of the new province established his capital at Peshāwar.[46]
The name of the founder of the Little Yué-Chi, as they were afterwards
called, survives in the title of Shah Kator, chief of Chitral.
The Ephthalites, or White Huns, who, as we have seen, in the year A.D.
430 became possessed of Bactria, were in all probability of the same
stock as the Yué-Chi. They are known to history under a great variety
of names, such as Naphthalites, Hayāthila, and Yetha. This last is the
name by which they are known to the Chinese, who always most carefully
distinguish between the Yetha and the Yué-Chi.[47] The Yetha were of
Tartaric origin, and are described as having anciently lived to the
north of the Great Wall, and to have advanced southwards about the
first century of our era. They then came under the domination of the
Juen-Juen,[48] but emerging from this, they ultimately became masters
of an empire which extended to the borders of Persia, and comprised
Kiphin, Kharashar, Kāshghar, and Khotan. The arrival of the Yetha in
Transoxiana about the year 425 of our era was the result of those
migrations of Tartar peoples which took place in Central Asia at the
beginning of the fifth century. About 360 the Juen-Juen advancing
westwards became masters of all Tartary.[49] One of their kings, Tulun
by name, who reigned at the beginning of the fifth century, carried
his conquest from Corea to the confines of Europe. It was owing to
these conquests that the various Hunnish tribes, driven from their
ancient habitats by these new invaders, swept into Transoxiana in 425
(_i.e._ the Ephthalites), and into Europe, under Attila, in 430. On the
appearance of the White Huns in the Oxus districts that country had
been for five centuries in the possession of the Yué-Chi, or Kushans,
as we have seen above, and they occupied the land for upwards of 130
years (425 to 557), during which period they were in close contact with
the Sāsānides of Persia. The Kushans did not, however, immediately
disappear from Central Asia, for we find references after this date in
Chinese authors to small Kushan principalities in the Upper Oxus and
Farghāna.
CHAPTER IV
THE SĀSĀNIDES, THE EPHTHALITES, AND THE TURKS
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