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ID: 8711763
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/8711763
Record Type:
administrative
Hephthalite Empire (former nation/state/empire)
Coordinates:
Lat: 39 00 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 39.0000
decimal degrees
Long: 067 00 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 67.0000
decimal degrees
Note:
Nomadic empire led by Hephthalite Huns, active in Central Asia from the 5th-7th centuries. Balkh, in present-day Afghanistan, was an active center.
Names:
Hephthalite Empire
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Hephthalite Khanate
(
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Asia
(continent) (
P
)
........
Hephthalite Empire
(former nation/state/empire) (
P
)
Place Types:
former nation/state/empire (
preferred
,
C
)
............
5th century-670 CE
empire (
H
)
Related geographic places:
historical connection ....
Balkh
.......... (inhabited place)
........................................
(World, Asia, Afghānestān, Balkh) [7002245]
Sources and Contributors:
Hephthalite Empire..........
[
VP Preferred
]
...................................
Higham, Ancient Asian Civilizations (2004)
141
Hephthalite Khanate..........
[
VP
]
...................................
Encyclopedia of Empire, Wiley Online (2016-)
accessed 9 July 2019
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Higham, Ancient Asian Civilizations (2004)
141
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
..........
Higham, Ancient Asian Civilizations (2004)
141
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