Ephthalite

plural Ephthalites

1. alternativeAlternative form of Hephthalite.

   Theſe Ephthalites are a Hunniſh Nation, but not mingled with other Hunnes, having no part of their Country bordering upon them; [...]

   1653, The History of the Warres of the Emperour Justinian, page 3

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   This Perozes was Valiant and Warlike, but with more Courage than Diſcretion made War againſt the Ephthalites, as Procopius, or Nephthalites as Agathias calls them, about their Boundaries.

   1685, William Howel, An Institution of General History, London, page 44

   The Kushanic unification of the valleys of the Oxus, Indus, and Ganges under one kingdom was broken by central Asian invaders, the Ephthalites, who destroyed the Buddhist monasteries and stupas, [...]

   2025, Kenneth A. R. Kennedy, God-Apes and Fossil Men: Paleoanthropology of South Asia, page 337

comparative more Ephthalite · superlative most Ephthalite

1. alternativeAlternative form of Hephthalite.

   Without these affinities even the duration of the Ephthalite empire for one and a quarter centuries would be inexplicable.

   1955, Hermann Goetz, The Early Wooden Temples of Chamba, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 40

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   The Ephthalite Hunns, or Nephthalite, as Agathias ſtiles them, inhabited a rich country bordering to the north on Perſia, and at a great diſtance from the Sarmatian or Scythian Hunns, with whom they had no intercourſe, nor the leaſt reſemblance, either in their perſons or manners.

   1764, A General History of the World, page 330

   They had extended their dominion over the great Ephthalite kingdom, partly by force of arms, partly through the treachery of Katulphus, an Ephthalite chieftain; [...]

   1876, George Rawlinson, The Seventh Great Oriental Monarchy, London, page 427

   Synonyms: Ephthalitic