Alchon Huns
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The Alchon Huns, also known as the Alkhan, Alchono, Alxon, Alkhon, Alakhana, and Walxon, were a nomadic people who established states in Central Asia and the Indian subcontinent during the 4th and 6th
Alchon Khingila portrait
The word "Alchono" (αλχοννο) in Greek (Greco-Bactrian cursive script), on a coin of Khingila.
Portrait of an older King Khingila, founder of the Alchon Huns, on one of his coins, c. 430 – 490 CE.
The silver bowl in the British Museum
Huna people
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Hunas, Huna or Hun was the name given by the ancient Indians to a group of Central Asian tribes who, via the Khyber Pass, entered the Indian subcontinent at the end of the 5th or early 6th century. Th
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…them by about a century, and contributed to the fall of the Gupta Empire, in a sense bringing an end to Classical India. The invasion of India by the Huna peoples follows invasions of the subcontinent in the preceding centuries by the Yavana (Indo-Greeks), the Saka (Indo-Scythians), the Pahlava (Indo-Parthians…
Hephthalite horseman on British Museum bowl, 460–479 CE. According to Procopius of Caesarea, they were of the same stock as European Huns "in fact as well as in name", but sedentary and white-skinned.
Gurjara-Pratihara coinage of Mihira Bhoja, King of Kanauj.
Victory pillar of Yashodharman at Sondani, Mandsaur claiming victory over the Huns.
Asia in 500 CE, showing the Huna domain at its greatest extent.