Khingila I c.430-490, apparently of the Haital tribe (Chinese: 厌哒 or 嚈噠) from Kushan (Chinese: 貴霜), a contemporary of Akhshunwar (fl.

Floruit

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 484) in Khwarezm

Khwarezm

Khwarezm, or Chorasmia, is a large oasis region on the Amu Darya river delta in western Central Asia, which borders to the north the Aral Sea, to the east the Kyzylkum desert, to the south the Karakum desert and to the west the Ustyurt Plateau...

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"A great fog arose from the sea scaring people and this was followed by countless number of vultures descending on the people."

In response to the migration of the Wusun

Wusun

The Wūsūn were a nomadic steppe people who, according to the Chinese histories, originally lived in western Gansu in northwest China west of the Yuezhi people...

 (who were hard-pressed by the Rouran

Rouran

Rouran , Mongolia name Jujan or Nirun Ruanruan/Ruru , Tan Tan , Juan-Juan or Zhu-Zhuwas the name of a confederation of nomadic tribes on the northern borders of Inner China from the late 4th century until the middle 6th century...

) from Zhetysu to the Pamir

Pamir

Pamir may refer to:* a pamir, a U-shaped grassy valley in the Pamir Mountains**Great Pamir, a high valley in the Wakhan on the border of Afghanistan and Tajikistan**Little Pamir, a high valley in the Wakhan, Afghanistan...

 region (Chinese: 葱嶺), Khingila united the Uar

Uar

The Uar were the largest of three ethnic components constituting the confederation known to the west as the Hephthalites and to the Chinese as Yanda and the dominant ethnicity of Khwarezm...

 (Chinese: 滑) and the Xionites

Xionites

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 (Chinese: 西戎) in 460AD, establishing the Hepthalite (Chinese: 厌带夷栗陁) dynasty.

According to the Syrian compilation of Church Historian Zacharias Rhetor

Zacharias Rhetor

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, bishop of Mytilene

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, the need for new grazing land to replace that lost to the Wusun led Khingila's "Uar-Chionites" to displace the Sabirs to the west, who in turn displaced the Saragur, Ugor and Onogur, who then asked for an alliance and land from Byzantium

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• Khingila coinage

Preceded by: Akshuwar in Khwarezm Khwarezm Khwarezm, or Chorasmia, is a large oasis region on the Amu Darya river delta in western Central Asia, which borders to the north the Aral Sea, to the east the Kyzylkum desert, to the south the Karakum desert and to the west the Ustyurt Plateau...

Hepthalite rulers

Succeeded by: Toramana I Toramana Toramana was a Huna ruler in India. He is known from the Rajatarangini, coins and inscriptions. In the Kura inscription his name is mentioned as Rajadhiraja Maharaja Toramana Shahi Jaula. The Eran Boar Image inscription of his first regnal year indicates that eastern Malwa was included in his...