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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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.