- Xionites,
Chionites, or
Chionitae (Middle Persian: Xiyōn or Hiyōn; Avestan: X́iiaona-;
Sogdian xwn;
Pahlavi Xyōn) were a
nomadic people in the Central...
-
Nemophora chionites is a moth of the
family Adelidae or
fairy longhorn moths. It was
described by
Edward Meyrick in 1907. It is
found in
India and Thailand...
- who led a
Bactrian portion of
Chionites to
overthrow the
Kushans in India. In this case he
might have been the
Chionite king
Grumbat mentioned by Ammi****...
- Hephthalites. Kidara's
ethnicity is unclear, but he may
himself have been a
Chionite, and he
belongs to the
general category of the Huns or Huna.
Already during...
- Huna, and in
Europe as the
Chionites (from the
Iranian names Xwn/Xyon), and may even be
considered as
identical to the
Chionites. The 5th
century Byzantine...
-
possibly as a
consequence of the
destruction of the Kushano-Sasanians by the
Chionites. The Kushano-Sasanian
still ruled in the north.
Important finds of Sasanian...
- and
inscriptions from Afrasiab.
Latin and
Syrian sources called the
Chionites,
Kidarites (Kushans), and
Hephthalites as
White Huns. They also included...
- with the name "Hun" or "Iranian Huns". The most
prominent of
these were
Chionites, the Kidarites, and the Hephthalites. Otto J. Maenchen-Helfen was the...
- are the
Chionites, who
attacked Bactria around 350 CE.
Later Gr****
languages sources refer to the
Kidarites as a
distinct group of
Chionites. Regarding...
-
although most
probably the bulk of the
people in the
confederation of
Chionites and then
Hephhtalites spoke an
Iranian language. In this case, as normal...
