Ephthalite

noun

Eph·​tha·​lite

ˈefthəˌlīt

variants or less commonly Hephthalite

ˈhe-

plural -s

: a member of the western branch of the Yueh-chi-Tocharians that ruled Russian Turkestan and northwest India in the 5th and 6th centuries A.D.

called also White Hun

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