A member of a Central Asian Hunnic people who invaded and ruled parts of Central Asia and northwestern India during the 5th-6th centuries.
From a Greek adaptation of an Iranian or Turkic ethnic name. The term was recorded by Byzantine historians like Procopius who documented these invasions.
The Ephthalites were called the 'White Huns' by historians, and they created one of the most mysterious empires in Central Asia—we know they were powerful, but much of their actual history was written by their enemies.
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