Notice: This is the official website of the All Empires History Community (Reg. 10 Feb 2002)

  FAQ FAQ  Forum Search   Register Register  Login Login

Haphthalites- Iranian origin

 Post Reply Post Reply
Author
Roman Sakhan View Drop Down
Housecarl
Housecarl
Avatar

Joined: 11-Jan-2019
Online Status: Offline
Posts: 32
  Quote Roman Sakhan Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Topic: Haphthalites- Iranian origin
    Posted: 16-Jan-2019 at 22:18
Hephthalites are among the ancestors of modern-day Pashtuns. According to the academic Yu. V. Gankovsky,
“[The Pashtuns began as a] union of largely East-Iranian tribes which became the initial ethnic stratum of the Pashtun ethnogenesis, dates from the middle of the first millennium CE and is connected with the dissolution of the Epthalite (White Huns) confederacy. [...] Of the contribution of the Epthalites (White Huns) to the ethnogenesis of the Pashtuns we find evidence in the ethnonym of the largest of the Pashtun tribe unions, the Abdali (Durrani after 1747) associated with the ethnic name of the Epthalites — Abdal. The Siah-posh, the Kafirs (Nuristanis) of the Hindu Kush, called all Pashtuns by a general name of Abdal still at the beginning of the 19th century.[Gankovsky, Yu. V., et al. A History of Afghanistan, Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1982, pg 382]     ”
Back to Top
 Post Reply Post Reply

Forum Jump Forum Permissions View Drop Down

Bulletin Board Software by Web Wiz Forums® version 9.56a [Free Express Edition]
Copyright ©2001-2009 Web Wiz

This page was generated in 0.063 seconds.