Xionites
Sign in to savethumb|300px|Asia in 400 AD, showing the Xionites ("Chionites") and their neighbors. Xionites, Chionites, or Chionitae (Middle Persian: Xiyōn or Hiyōn; Avestan: X́iiaona-; Sogdian xwn; Pahlavi Xyōn) were a nomadic people in the Central Asian regions of Transoxiana and Bactria.
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Encyclopedic overview
13 sectionsContents
- Origins and culture
- History
- Chionite rulers of Chach
- Kidarites
- Clashes with the Sasanians
- Alchon
- Hephthalites
- Nezak
- Identity of the ''Karmir Xyon'' and ''White Xyon''
- See also
- References
- Sources
- External links
thumb|300px|Asia in 400 AD, showing the Xionites ("Chionites") and their neighbors. Xionites, Chionites, or Chionitae (Middle Persian: Xiyōn or Hiyōn; Avestan: X́iiaona-; Sogdian xwn; Pahlavi Xyōn) were a nomadic people in the Central Asian regions of Transoxiana and Bactria.
The Xionites appear to be synonymous with the Huna peoples of classical/medieval India, and possibly also the Huns of European late antiquity, who were in turn linked onomastically to the Xiongnu in Chinese history.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Xionites” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.