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Pre-Islamic period of Afghanistan - Sassanian Rule ca. 300 - 650 | | Pre-Islamic period of Afghanistan - Sassanian Rule ca. 300 - 650: Encyclopedia II - Pre-Islamic period of Afghanistan - Sassanian Rule ca. 300 - 650 | | In the 3rd century, Kushan control fragmented into semi-independent kingdoms that became easy targets for conquest by the rising Iranian dynasty, the Sassanians (ca. 224 - 561) which annexed Afghanistan by 300 CE. Sassanian control was tenuous at times as numerous challenges from Central Asian tribes led to instability and constant warfare in the region.
The disunited Kushan and Sassanian kingdoms were in a poor position to meet the threat of a new wave of nomadic, Indo-European invaders from the north. The Hepthalites (or White Huns) ...
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| | | Pre-Islamic period of Afghanistan: Encyclopedia II - Pre-Islamic period of Afghanistan - Sassanian Rule ca. 300 - 650
Pre-Islamic period of Afghanistan - Sassanian Rule ca. 300 - 650
In the 3rd century, Kushan control fragmented into semi-independent kingdoms that became easy targets for conquest by the rising Iranian dynasty, the Sassanians (ca. 224 - 561) which annexed Afghanistan by 300 CE. Sassanian control was tenuous at times as numerous challenges from Central Asian tribes led to instability and constant warfare in the region.
The disunited Kushan and Sassanian kingdoms were in a poor position to meet the threat of a new wave of nomadic, Indo-European invaders from the north. The Hepthalites (or White Huns) swept out of Central Asia around the fourth century into Bactria and to the south, overwhelming the last of the Kushan and Sassanian kingdoms. Some have speculated that the name Afghanistan derives from the name of the defeated Hepthalite king, Faganish. Historians believe that Hepthalite control continued for a century and was marked by constant warfare with the Sassanians to the west who exerted nominal control over the region.
By the middle of the sixth century the Hepthalites were defeated in the territories north of the Amu Darya (the Oxus River of antiquity) by another group of Central Asian nomads, the Gokturks, and by the resurgent Sassanians in the lands south of the Amu Darya. It was the ruler of western Gokturks, Sijin (aka Sinjibu, Silzibul and Yandu Muchu Khan) who led the forces against the Hepthalites who were defeated at the Battle of Chach (Tashkent) and at the Battle of Bukhara.
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