Huna people

Hunas or Huna (Middle <a href="/facts/Brahmi/Bflxwzu6">Brahmi</a> script: Hūṇā) was the name given by the <a href="/facts/Ancient_India/ntYkAYDQ">ancient Indians</a> to a group of <a href="/facts/Central_Asia/rB8k0CyT">Central Asian</a> tribes who, via the <a href="/facts/Khyber_Pass/qvNBzEGg">Khyber Pass</a>, entered the <a href="/facts/Indian_subcontinent/0XUWGXpx">Indian subcontinent</a> at the end of the 5th or early 6th century. The Hunas occupied areas as far south as <a href="/facts/Eran/1tQTP80X">Eran</a> and <a href="/facts/Kausambi/WKrrUPD2">Kausambi</a>, greatly weakening the <a href="/facts/Gupta_Empire/KbMVInGv">Gupta Empire</a>. The Hunas were ultimately defeated by a coalition of Indian princes that included an Indian king Yasodharman and the Gupta emperor, <a href="/facts/Narasimhagupta/qLXgD1WV">Narasimhagupta</a>. They defeated a Huna army and their ruler <a href="/facts/Mihirakula/rqspHRWo">Mihirakula</a> in 528 CE and drove them out of India. The Guptas are thought to have played only a minor role in this campaign.
The Hunas are thought to have included the <a href="/facts/Xionites/hBvClx5E">Xionite</a> and/or <a href="/facts/Hephthalite/mPWNqPeT">Hephthalite</a>, the <a href="/facts/Kidarites/RfJq6vdS">Kidarites</a>, the <a href="/facts/Alchon_Huns/SIWYeBlW">Alchon Huns</a> (also known as the Alxon, Alakhana, Walxon etc.) and the <a href="/facts/Nezak_Huns/fhT7UcEd">Nezak Huns</a>. Such names, along with that of the <a href="/facts/Hara_Huna_Kingdom/Y8crA6Qp">Harahunas</a> (also known as the Halahunas or Harahuras) mentioned in Hindu texts, have sometimes been used for the Hunas in general; while these groups (and the <a href="/facts/Iranian_Huns/KMnAvPc9">Iranian Huns</a>) appear to have been a component of the Hunas, such names were not necessarily synonymous. Some authors suggest that the Hunas were <a href="/facts/Hephthalite_Huns/mPWNqPeT">Hephthalite Huns</a> from Central Asia. The relationship, if any, of the Hunas to the <a href="/facts/Huns/djwwoCXj">Huns</a>, a Central Asian people who invaded Europe during the same period, is also unclear.
In its farthest geographical extent in India, the territories controlled by the Hunas covered the region up to <a href="/facts/Malwa/pshuc0n0">Malwa</a> in <a href="/facts/Central_India/LqI923yw">central India</a>. Their repeated invasions and war losses were the main reason for the decline of the Gupta Empire.

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