Battle of Merv, 484 AD - Attila of the East - Greatest Hunnic Conqueror?

@HistoryMarche 2 ай бұрын

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@danielsantiagourtado3430 2 ай бұрын

Love your content ❤❤❤❤

@user-gh1rc8es9x 2 ай бұрын

store khosrow ANUSHIRWAN (khosrow i) ❤❤ king of kings, please please ❤

@legalna2rp 2 ай бұрын

A good film about The Kingdom which broke Sassanid Empire for a long time.

@oooooo-jy4lf 2 ай бұрын

roma sending money for dude thats in prison id be sending an army to take some land not money, or sending some money to the smaller tribes insight them to invade while dude is captive

@ramtin5152 2 ай бұрын

The Hephthalites were stopped and defeated by an Iranian noble called Sukhra of the house of Karen but since most of the Sassanid army was lost during those 3 battles, they weren't able to take back the lost territories Surkhab quickly installed Peroz brother, Balash, on the Sassanid throne, regrouped the rest of the Sassanid army and marched against the Hephthalite king, Khushnavaz When he reached Gorgan, Khushnavaz was informed of Surkhab's plan of attacking him, he prepared his men for battle and sent a message to Surkhab, asking him his name, official position and intentions Surkhab shortly sent a message back, informing him of his name and position Khushnavaz thereafter sent another message, warning him of doing the same mistake as Peroz I However, he wasn't discouraged by Khushnavaz words and even raided Hephthalite territories, met Hephthalite king's army in battle and inflicted a heavy defeat on him This made Khushnavaz sue for peace which Surkhab would only accept if the Hephthalites would give him everything that had been seized from Peroz camp including all his wealth, royal treasury, his chief priest and Peroz's daughter, Perozdukht His demands were accepted and peace was made He then returned to Ctesiphon, where he was received with great honor by nobles and people like a hero In 503, Kavad I countered and repelled a Hephthalite attack and in 508, a Sasanian campaign under Kavad I, led to the conquest of the Zundaber (Zumdaber) Castellum, associated with the temple of az Zunin in the area of ad Dawar, situated between Bust and Kandahar Based on the Sassanid coin found in Merv, it's indicated that the Sassanids under Kavad I defeated the Hephthalites and reconquered the great Khorasan Khosrow Anushiravan, allied with the Gokturks, and conquered the southern half of the Hephthalite empire while the Gokturks conquered the northern half The Hephthalite king, Ghadfar, and what was left of his men, took refuge in the Sassanid empire under Khosrow Anushiravan Gokturks sent a delegate with gifts to strengthen the alliance They made a treaty and sent, Faghanish, the Hephthalite who was supposed to be their own puppet king to Ctesiphon to be approved by Khosrow who made Faghanish and his kingdom into his own vassal instead In 562, Khosrow defeated the Hephthalites AGAIN and also stopped the threat of Turks Sinjibu attacked the Sassanid borders but in the end, gave his daughter's hand in marriage to Khosrow Anushiravan which wouldn't have been possible without a Sassanid counter attack and victory

@bullettrain2224 2 ай бұрын

Peroz, meaning "Victorious", is definitely a contender for the Most Ironically Named Ruler of All-Time.

@The_ZeroLine 2 ай бұрын

He should have been whatever the Farsi equivalent of King Ransomed or King Always Conquered would be.

@ramtin5152 2 ай бұрын

The Hephthalites were stopped and defeated by an Iranian noble called Sukhra of the house of Karen but since most of the Sassanid army was lost during those 3 battles, they weren't able to take back the lost territories Surkhab quickly installed Peroz brother, Balash, on the Sassanid throne, regrouped the rest of the Sassanid army and marched against the Hephthalite king, Khushnavaz When he reached Gorgan, Khushnavaz was informed of Surkhab's plan of attacking him, he prepared his men for battle and sent a message to Surkhab, asking him his name, official position and intentions Surkhab shortly sent a message back, informing him of his name and position Khushnavaz thereafter sent another message, warning him of doing the same mistake as Peroz I However, he wasn't discouraged by Khushnavaz words and even raided Hephthalite territories, met Hephthalite king's army in battle and inflicted a heavy defeat on him This made Khushnavaz sue for peace which Surkhab would only accept if the Hephthalites would give him everything that had been seized from Peroz camp including all his wealth, royal treasury, his chief priest and Peroz's daughter, Perozdukht His demands were accepted and peace was made He then returned to Ctesiphon, where he was received with great honor by nobles and people like a hero In 503, Kavad I countered and repelled a Hephthalite attack and in 508, a Sasanian campaign under Kavad I, led to the conquest of the Zundaber (Zumdaber) Castellum, associated with the temple of az Zunin in the area of ad Dawar, situated between Bust and Kandahar Based on the Sassanid coin found in Merv, it's indicated that the Sassanids under Kavad I defeated the Hephthalites and reconquered the great Khorasan Khosrow Anushiravan, allied with the Gokturks, and conquered the southern half of the Hephthalite empire while the Gokturks conquered the northern half The Hephthalite king, Ghadfar, and what was left of his men, took refuge in the Sassanid empire under Khosrow Anushiravan Gokturks sent a delegate with gifts to strengthen the alliance They made a treaty and sent, Faghanish, the Hephthalite who was supposed to be their own puppet king to Ctesiphon to be approved by Khosrow who made Faghanish and his kingdom into his own vassal instead In 562, Khosrow defeated the Hephthalites AGAIN and also stopped the threat of Turks Sinjibu attacked the Sassanid borders but in the end, gave his daughter's hand in marriage to Khosrow Anushiravan which wouldn't have been possible without a Sassanid counter attack and victory

@hentaioverwhelming 2 ай бұрын

There were 2 more Sassanian kings of that name and it honestly looks more like a cursed name for people.

@Oguzxon1 2 ай бұрын

Khushnawar means white knight (cavalry)

@ramtin5152 2 ай бұрын

@@Oguzxon1 It was later changed to Khushnawaz meaning beautiful player or musician

@ElBandito 2 ай бұрын

Hephtalites to Peroz: How many times do we need to teach you the same lesson, old man?

@arawn1061 2 ай бұрын

Peroz probably thought "hey third times the charm, right"

@georgebailey8179 2 ай бұрын

He was outwitted twice. Surely it was obvious to him that he was outmatched. But no, he just kept trying. A+ for effort, E- for attainment.

@michaelsinger4638 2 ай бұрын

It also seemingly Never occurred to him that his enemies probably had another clever trap up their sleeve this time as well.

@arawn1061 2 ай бұрын

@@georgebailey8179 Why let forthought or logic stop you? Absolute monarchy baby

@aturner488 2 ай бұрын

I can only imagine not being defeated in pitched open battle made him think it didnt count lols

@tyronewilliams7556 2 ай бұрын

I had never even heard of the Hephtalites, let alone this brilliant leader. This was a doubly pleasant video for me. Kudos Marche

@Techtalk2030 Ай бұрын

The Hephthalites (Bactrian: ηβοδαλο, romanized: Ebodalo),[11] sometimes called the White Huns (also known as the White Hunas, in Iranian as the Spet Xyon and in Sanskrit as the Sveta-huna),[12][13] were a people who lived in Central Asia during the 5th to 8th centuries CE, part of the larger group of the Iranian Huns.[14][15] They formed an empire, the Imperial Hephthalites, and were militarily important from 450 CE, when they defeated the Kidarites, to 560 CE, when combined forces from the First Turkic Khaganate and the Sasanian Empire defeated them.[1][16]

@yakov95000 Ай бұрын

They were Huns just who went south not West

@YSK2891 Ай бұрын

@@Techtalk2030also mention alhuns , all of them as shato Turks were descendants of the Huns from Central Asia, were Turkic tribes

@ramtin5152 Ай бұрын

The Hephthalites were stopped and defeated by an Iranian noble called Sukhra of the house of Karen but since most of the Sassanid army was lost during those 3 battles, they weren't able to take back the lost territories Surkhab quickly installed Peroz brother, Balash, on the Sassanid throne, regrouped the rest of the Sassanid army and marched against the Hephthalite king, Khushnavaz When he reached Gorgan, Khushnavaz was informed of Surkhab's plan of attacking him, he prepared his men for battle and sent a message to Surkhab, asking him his name, official position and intentions Surkhab shortly sent a message back, informing him of his name and position Khushnavaz thereafter sent another message, warning him of doing the same mistake as Peroz I However, he wasn't discouraged by Khushnavaz words and even raided Hephthalite territories, met Hephthalite king's army in battle and inflicted a heavy defeat on him This made Khushnavaz sue for peace which Surkhab would only accept if the Hephthalites would give him everything that had been seized from Peroz camp including all his wealth, royal treasury, his chief priest and Peroz's daughter, Perozdukht His demands were accepted and peace was made He then returned to Ctesiphon, where he was received with great honor by nobles and people like a hero In 503, Kavad I countered and repelled a Hephthalite attack and in 508, a Sasanian campaign under Kavad I, led to the conquest of the Zundaber (Zumdaber) Castellum, associated with the temple of az Zunin in the area of ad Dawar, situated between Bust and Kandahar Based on the Sassanid coin found in Merv, it's indicated that the Sassanids under Kavad I defeated the Hephthalites and reconquered the great Khorasan Khosrow Anushiravan, allied with the Gokturks, and conquered the southern half of the Hephthalite empire while the Gokturks conquered the northern half The Hephthalite king, Ghadfar, and what was left of his men, took refuge in the Sassanid empire under Khosrow Anushiravan Gokturks sent a delegate with gifts to strengthen the alliance They made a treaty and sent, Faghanish, the Hephthalite who was supposed to be their own puppet king to Ctesiphon to be approved by Khosrow who made Faghanish and his kingdom into his own vassal instead In 562, Khosrow defeated the Hephthalites AGAIN and also stopped the threat of Turks Sinjibu attacked the Sassanid borders but in the end, gave his daughter's hand in marriage to Khosrow Anushiravan which wouldn't have been possible without a Sassanid counter attack and victory

@a.d.1926 Ай бұрын

they were called Akhun which mean White Huns in Turkish. They are Turkic and related to medieval Turkic tribes.

@Pax_Omoluabi 2 ай бұрын

This is exactly how history ought to be presented - engaging and profound. Go team HistoryMarche !

@GermanicDutchEnjoyer 2 ай бұрын

A great warrior and conquerer, very unknown in the Western world. We should also give credits to his military genius, his battle of Herat was a masterpiece.

@jugglejunk 2 ай бұрын

There is an anime that depicts that battle from the viewpoint of the Sassanians. About how 1 prince survives and plans to get his position back with the help of 1 of the courts''spie's''. Look for something akin to: the tale of Arslan. I thought it was a pretty fun anime/manga (both exist) that should be interesting to history fans. 😁

@TheStrategos392 2 ай бұрын

Wouldn’t mind finding a good book on this guy.

@ramtin5152 2 ай бұрын

The Hephthalites were stopped and defeated by an Iranian noble called Sukhra of the house of Karen but since most of the Sassanid army was lost during those 3 battles, they weren't able to take back the lost territories Surkhab quickly installed Peroz brother, Balash, on the Sassanid throne, regrouped the rest of the Sassanid army and marched against the Hephthalite king, Khushnavaz When he reached Gorgan, Khushnavaz was informed of Surkhab's plan of attacking him, he prepared his men for battle and sent a message to Surkhab, asking him his name, official position and intentions Surkhab shortly sent a message back, informing him of his name and position Khushnavaz thereafter sent another message, warning him of doing the same mistake as Peroz I However, he wasn't discouraged by Khushnavaz words and even raided Hephthalite territories, met Hephthalite king's army in battle and inflicted a heavy defeat on him This made Khushnavaz sue for peace which Surkhab would only accept if the Hephthalites would give him everything that had been seized from Peroz camp including all his wealth, royal treasury, his chief priest and Peroz's daughter, Perozdukht His demands were accepted and peace was made He then returned to Ctesiphon, where he was received with great honor by nobles and people like a hero In 503, Kavad I countered and repelled a Hephthalite attack and in 508, a Sasanian campaign under Kavad I, led to the conquest of the Zundaber (Zumdaber) Castellum, associated with the temple of az Zunin in the area of ad Dawar, situated between Bust and Kandahar Based on the Sassanid coin found in Merv, it's indicated that the Sassanids under Kavad I defeated the Hephthalites and reconquered the great Khorasan Khosrow Anushiravan, allied with the Gokturks, and conquered the southern half of the Hephthalite empire while the Gokturks conquered the northern half The Hephthalite king, Ghadfar, and what was left of his men, took refuge in the Sassanid empire under Khosrow Anushiravan Gokturks sent a delegate with gifts to strengthen the alliance They made a treaty and sent, Faghanish, the Hephthalite who was supposed to be their own puppet king to Ctesiphon to be approved by Khosrow who made Faghanish and his kingdom into his own vassal instead In 562, Khosrow defeated the Hephthalites AGAIN and also stopped the threat of Turks Sinjibu attacked the Sassanid borders but in the end, gave his daughter's hand in marriage to Khosrow Anushiravan which wouldn't have been possible without a Sassanid counter attack and victory

@ramtin5152 2 ай бұрын

@@jugglejunk The Hephthalites were stopped and defeated by an Iranian noble called Sukhra of the house of Karen but since most of the Sassanid army was lost during those 3 battles, they weren't able to take back the lost territories Surkhab quickly installed Peroz brother, Balash, on the Sassanid throne, regrouped the rest of the Sassanid army and marched against the Hephthalite king, Khushnavaz When he reached Gorgan, Khushnavaz was informed of Surkhab's plan of attacking him, he prepared his men for battle and sent a message to Surkhab, asking him his name, official position and intentions Surkhab shortly sent a message back, informing him of his name and position Khushnavaz thereafter sent another message, warning him of doing the same mistake as Peroz I However, he wasn't discouraged by Khushnavaz words and even raided Hephthalite territories, met Hephthalite king's army in battle and inflicted a heavy defeat on him This made Khushnavaz sue for peace which Surkhab would only accept if the Hephthalites would give him everything that had been seized from Peroz camp including all his wealth, royal treasury, his chief priest and Peroz's daughter, Perozdukht His demands were accepted and peace was made He then returned to Ctesiphon, where he was received with great honor by nobles and people like a hero In 503, Kavad I countered and repelled a Hephthalite attack and in 508, a Sasanian campaign under Kavad I, led to the conquest of the Zundaber (Zumdaber) Castellum, associated with the temple of az Zunin in the area of ad Dawar, situated between Bust and Kandahar Based on the Sassanid coin found in Merv, it's indicated that the Sassanids under Kavad I defeated the Hephthalites and reconquered the great Khorasan Khosrow Anushiravan, allied with the Gokturks, and conquered the southern half of the Hephthalite empire while the Gokturks conquered the northern half The Hephthalite king, Ghadfar, and what was left of his men, took refuge in the Sassanid empire under Khosrow Anushiravan Gokturks sent a delegate with gifts to strengthen the alliance They made a treaty and sent, Faghanish, the Hephthalite who was supposed to be their own puppet king to Ctesiphon to be approved by Khosrow who made Faghanish and his kingdom into his own vassal instead In 562, Khosrow defeated the Hephthalites AGAIN and also stopped the threat of Turks Sinjibu attacked the Sassanid borders but in the end, gave his daughter's hand in marriage to Khosrow Anushiravan which wouldn't have been possible without a Sassanid counter attack and victory

@byronwaldron7933 2 ай бұрын

@@ramtin5152 To an extent Sukhra's successes are a Persian romance. Contemporary sources indicate that any success won by the satrap of Sakastan was modest. His achievement was survival and keeping Sakastan under Persian control (unlike certain other territories). The war ended as a clear Hephthalite victory. Only much later, probably after the death of his patron Khushnawar, did Kavad manage to retake some territories.

@nikitaostrovsky8416 2 ай бұрын

Imagine being like Peroz, never learning from past mistakes, each time failing harder than the last time. It takes a profound idiot to mark the success of a profound tactician.

@shamsishraq6831 2 ай бұрын

And what's he doing marching with his family every time? A campaign in the mountains and deserts of C Asia seems like the worst place for a picnic with your daughter.

@advitiya259 2 ай бұрын

Best military quote I have heard in a while

@ramtin5152 2 ай бұрын

I totally agree He didn't learn from his privious defeats but his successors did The Hephthalites were stopped and defeated by an Iranian noble called Sukhra of the house of Karen but since most of the Sassanid army was lost during those 3 battles, they weren't able to take back the lost territories Surkhab quickly installed Peroz brother, Balash, on the Sassanid throne, regrouped the rest of the Sassanid army and marched against the Hephthalite king, Khushnavaz When he reached Gorgan, Khushnavaz was informed of Surkhab's plan of attacking him, he prepared his men for battle and sent a message to Surkhab, asking him his name, official position and intentions Surkhab shortly sent a message back, informing him of his name and position Khushnavaz thereafter sent another message, warning him of doing the same mistake as Peroz I However, he wasn't discouraged by Khushnavaz words and even raided Hephthalite territories, met Hephthalite king's army in battle and inflicted a heavy defeat on him This made Khushnavaz sue for peace which Surkhab would only accept if the Hephthalites would give him everything that had been seized from Peroz camp including all his wealth, royal treasury, his chief priest and Peroz's daughter, Perozdukht His demands were accepted and peace was made He then returned to Ctesiphon, where he was received with great honor by nobles and people like a hero In 503, Kavad I countered and repelled a Hephthalite attack and in 508, a Sasanian campaign under Kavad I, led to the conquest of the Zundaber (Zumdaber) Castellum, associated with the temple of az Zunin in the area of ad Dawar, situated between Bust and Kandahar Based on the Sassanid coin found in Merv, it's indicated that the Sassanids under Kavad I defeated the Hephthalites and reconquered the great Khorasan Khosrow Anushiravan, allied with the Gokturks, and conquered the southern half of the Hephthalite empire while the Gokturks conquered the northern half The Hephthalite king, Ghadfar, and what was left of his men, took refuge in the Sassanid empire under Khosrow Anushiravan Gokturks sent a delegate with gifts to strengthen the alliance They made a treaty and sent, Faghanish, the Hephthalite who was supposed to be their own puppet king to Ctesiphon to be approved by Khosrow who made Faghanish and his kingdom into his own vassal instead In 562, Khosrow defeated the Hephthalites AGAIN and also stopped the threat of Turks Sinjibu attacked the Sassanid borders but in the end, gave his daughter's hand in marriage to Khosrow Anushiravan which wouldn't have been possible without a Sassanid counter attack and victory

@baltulielkungsgunarsmiezis9714 2 ай бұрын

This is what happens when kings dont value good breeding and will marry their own relatives for political manuvering 15 point IQ drop rendering the king dumer than an average subject of his.

@DustinBarlow8P 2 ай бұрын

His nobility where some of the kindest in history. Most Empires the nobility would string the King up after such an embarrasing defeat. In China and Japan, the General that took part in such a defeat was expected to kill themselves. I am surprised that third army followed him and didn't mutiny.

@barryboushehri1707 2 ай бұрын

Fascinating. Please more on Sassanian Empire, and Shahanshah Khosrow Anushiravan.

@viraloracle5151 2 ай бұрын

Shapur II

@LightxHeaven 2 ай бұрын

The Sassanids are the true Scourge of God hellbent on using eastern black magic to terrorize civilization itself in the Eastern Roman Empire.

@HistoryMarche 2 ай бұрын

Thank you sir for supporting my work. Very kind of you!

@hussainhussaini-qr3fg 2 ай бұрын

@@HistoryMarche Could you do video about Shah Ismail😭

@Techtalk2030 Ай бұрын

Make more about Sassanid Persians please. Make one about shapur 2nd

@diraska 2 ай бұрын

The way those men died in the trenches is one of the most horrifying ways to die for a soldier. All this time training, the speeches and the commitment to your king and victory… and you rush head long into a ditch… one after another. The fall only kills a few, sadly… so it’s the crush that gets them or the lack of air or flailing hooves. Quick is the lucky way to go

@matthewneuendorf5763 2 ай бұрын

A note about the mace illustrations: they look like flails rather than maces. As I understand the maces of Late Antiquity, you'd see a short or mid-sized wooden haft with a copper (or copper alloy) or iron head. They might well be morning-star heads (spiked balls), but they might also be onion-shaped, spiraled, or flanged.

@thestinkydwarf 2 ай бұрын

I was looking for this comment about the mace graphic - thanks for sparing the comments section a less articulate rant from myself 😊

@baltulielkungsgunarsmiezis9714 2 ай бұрын

This is what happens when ilustrations are done by people who dont study history, I also instantly jumped seeing a flail.

@theacolyte9223 2 ай бұрын

maybe this was an implement of ferocious battle of the downriver amazonian variety, nahmean?

@cp1cupcake Ай бұрын

It wasn't the only thing which I thought was not caught in editing. Some of the animations got cut early.

@Zoanodar 29 күн бұрын

Same for the composite bow picture.

@netbanger547 2 ай бұрын

Kushnawar is definently one of the most underrated generals of middle asia

@ramtin5152 2 ай бұрын

The Sassanid king, Peroz I, was defeated 3 times and killed in the end and most of eastern Sassanid provinces were conquered by Hephthalites However, the Hephthalites were stopped and defeated by an Iranian noble called Sukhra of the house of Karen but since most of the Sassanid army was lost during those 3 battles, they weren't able to take back the lost territories Surkhab quickly installed Peroz brother, Balash, on the Sassanid throne, regrouped the rest of the Sassanid army and marched against the Hephthalite king, Khushnavaz When he reached Gorgan, Khushnavaz was informed of Surkhab's plan of attacking him, he prepared his men for battle and sent a message to Surkhab, asking him his name, official position and intentions Surkhab shortly sent a message back, informing him of his name and position Khushnavaz thereafter sent another message, warning him of doing the same mistake as Peroz I However, he wasn't discouraged by Khushnavaz words and even raided Hephthalite territories, met Hephthalite king's army in battle and inflicted a heavy defeat on him This made Khushnavaz sue for peace which Surkhab would only accept if the Hephthalites would give him everything that had been seized from Peroz camp including all his wealth, royal treasury, his chief priest and Peroz's daughter, Perozdukht His demands were accepted and peace was made He then returned to Ctesiphon, where he was received with great honor by nobles and people like a hero

@user-pc3ts8yc5b 2 ай бұрын

The Kingmaker! If not Roman ransome for keeping sassanid as buffer zone, he would have given a couple of visits to Constantinople

@Liquidsback 2 ай бұрын

@@ramtin5152 Sukhra of the House of Karen wanted to speak with the Hepthalites manager.

@ramtin5152 2 ай бұрын

@@Liquidsback He defeated the Hephthalites

@DragovianMythiX 2 ай бұрын

@@ramtin5152 We don't take kindly to persian propaganda here. shoosh, shoosh, go away!

@plus__ 2 ай бұрын

Hell yeah new historical content just dropped, babe wake up

@mkatakm 2 ай бұрын

You people make great historical documentaries, thank you all.

@benimtelefoncaliyor1dk 2 ай бұрын

The Byzantine authors, who partially describe the military and diplomatic situation of their great enemy, the empire of the Sassanids in Iran, enable us to date the arrival of the Huns in Central Asia to the neighborhood of 350. In fact, it is at this time that Ammianus Marcellinus mentions, for the first time in his narrative, the eastern enemies of the Persians, the Chionites. The addition of the letter "i" which transforms "Huns" to "Chions" is very probably tied to the assimilation of the Huns to the Chions found in the Iranian sacred book, the Avesta, in the same way that in the West the name of the Tatars of the Mongolian period was transformed into "Tartars" by assimilation to the river of the Underworld from which they seemed to have come. The identity of the Huns and the Chionites is confirmed by the parallel lists of invading peoples found in India and Iran: where the Indians wrote "White Huns" and "Red Huns," the Persians transcribed the words as "White Chions" and "Red Chions."4

@mojewjewjew4420 2 ай бұрын

Roman not byzantine propagandist Fk

@Techtalk2030 Ай бұрын

The Hephthalites (Bactrian: ηβοδαλο, romanized: Ebodalo),[11] sometimes called the White Huns (also known as the White Hunas, in Iranian as the Spet Xyon and in Sanskrit as the Sveta-huna),[12][13] were a people who lived in Central Asia during the 5th to 8th centuries CE, part of the larger group of the Iranian Huns.[14][15] They formed an empire, the Imperial Hephthalites, and were militarily important from 450 CE, when they defeated the Kidarites, to 560 CE, when combined forces from the First Turkic Khaganate and the Sasanian Empire defeated them.[1][16]

@Techtalk2030 Ай бұрын

@@mojewjewjew4420they are torkish spammers

@artinrahideh1229 15 күн бұрын

There aren't any Chions in Avesta though( are there?)

@TOKMAKCI_BASPAPAZ 2 ай бұрын

be of interest that according to Theophanes of Byzantium, who calls Aqshunvar by the name Ephthalantos, it was from this sovereign that the Ephtalites got their name.

@mojewjewjew4420 2 ай бұрын

Roman not byzantine 🤡

@Techtalk2030 Ай бұрын

The Hephthalites (Bactrian: ηβοδαλο, romanized: Ebodalo),[11] sometimes called the White Huns (also known as the White Hunas, in Iranian as the Spet Xyon and in Sanskrit as the Sveta-huna),[12][13] were a people who lived in Central Asia during the 5th to 8th centuries CE, part of the larger group of the Iranian Huns.[14][15] They formed an empire, the Imperial Hephthalites, and were militarily important from 450 CE, when they defeated the Kidarites, to 560 CE, when combined forces from the First Turkic Khaganate and the Sasanian Empire defeated them.[1][16]

@DragovianMythiX 2 ай бұрын

Kushnawar, you were a genius. I won't forget your name.

@ramtin5152 Ай бұрын

The Hephthalites were stopped and defeated by an Iranian noble called Sukhra of the house of Karen but since most of the Sassanid army was lost during those 3 battles, they weren't able to take back the lost territories Surkhab quickly installed Peroz brother, Balash, on the Sassanid throne, regrouped the rest of the Sassanid army and marched against the Hephthalite king, Khushnavaz When he reached Gorgan, Khushnavaz was informed of Surkhab's plan of attacking him, he prepared his men for battle and sent a message to Surkhab, asking him his name, official position and intentions Surkhab shortly sent a message back, informing him of his name and position Khushnavaz thereafter sent another message, warning him of doing the same mistake as Peroz I However, he wasn't discouraged by Khushnavaz words and even raided Hephthalite territories, met Hephthalite king's army in battle and inflicted a heavy defeat on him This made Khushnavaz sue for peace which Surkhab would only accept if the Hephthalites would give him everything that had been seized from Peroz camp including all his wealth, royal treasury, his chief priest and Peroz's daughter, Perozdukht His demands were accepted and peace was made He then returned to Ctesiphon, where he was received with great honor by nobles and people like a hero In 503, Kavad I countered and repelled a Hephthalite attack and in 508, a Sasanian campaign under Kavad I, led to the conquest of the Zundaber (Zumdaber) Castellum, associated with the temple of az Zunin in the area of ad Dawar, situated between Bust and Kandahar Based on the Sassanid coin found in Merv, it's indicated that the Sassanids under Kavad I defeated the Hephthalites and reconquered the great Khorasan Khosrow Anushiravan, allied with the Gokturks, and conquered the southern half of the Hephthalite empire while the Gokturks conquered the northern half The Hephthalite king, Ghadfar, and what was left of his men, took refuge in the Sassanid empire under Khosrow Anushiravan Gokturks sent a delegate with gifts to strengthen the alliance They made a treaty and sent, Faghanish, the Hephthalite who was supposed to be their own puppet king to Ctesiphon to be approved by Khosrow who made Faghanish and his kingdom into his own vassal instead In 562, Khosrow defeated the Hephthalites AGAIN and also stopped the threat of Turks Sinjibu attacked the Sassanid borders but in the end, gave his daughter's hand in marriage to Khosrow Anushiravan which wouldn't have been possible without a Sassanid counter attack and victory

@kmoney3066 2 ай бұрын

I can only imagine the prosperity of the hephtalites during Kushnawars reign. He was a beast

@ramtin5152 Ай бұрын

The Hephthalites were stopped and defeated by an Iranian noble called Sukhra of the house of Karen but since most of the Sassanid army was lost during those 3 battles, they weren't able to take back the lost territories Surkhab quickly installed Peroz brother, Balash, on the Sassanid throne, regrouped the rest of the Sassanid army and marched against the Hephthalite king, Khushnavaz When he reached Gorgan, Khushnavaz was informed of Surkhab's plan of attacking him, he prepared his men for battle and sent a message to Surkhab, asking him his name, official position and intentions Surkhab shortly sent a message back, informing him of his name and position Khushnavaz thereafter sent another message, warning him of doing the same mistake as Peroz I However, he wasn't discouraged by Khushnavaz words and even raided Hephthalite territories, met Hephthalite king's army in battle and inflicted a heavy defeat on him This made Khushnavaz sue for peace which Surkhab would only accept if the Hephthalites would give him everything that had been seized from Peroz camp including all his wealth, royal treasury, his chief priest and Peroz's daughter, Perozdukht His demands were accepted and peace was made He then returned to Ctesiphon, where he was received with great honor by nobles and people like a hero In 503, Kavad I countered and repelled a Hephthalite attack and in 508, a Sasanian campaign under Kavad I, led to the conquest of the Zundaber (Zumdaber) Castellum, associated with the temple of az Zunin in the area of ad Dawar, situated between Bust and Kandahar Based on the Sassanid coin found in Merv, it's indicated that the Sassanids under Kavad I defeated the Hephthalites and reconquered the great Khorasan Khosrow Anushiravan, allied with the Gokturks, and conquered the southern half of the Hephthalite empire while the Gokturks conquered the northern half The Hephthalite king, Ghadfar, and what was left of his men, took refuge in the Sassanid empire under Khosrow Anushiravan Gokturks sent a delegate with gifts to strengthen the alliance They made a treaty and sent, Faghanish, the Hephthalite who was supposed to be their own puppet king to Ctesiphon to be approved by Khosrow who made Faghanish and his kingdom into his own vassal instead In 562, Khosrow defeated the Hephthalites AGAIN and also stopped the threat of Turks Sinjibu attacked the Sassanid borders but in the end, gave his daughter's hand in marriage to Khosrow Anushiravan which wouldn't have been possible without a Sassanid counter attack and victory

@kmoney3066 Ай бұрын

@@ramtin5152 thank you for this. Where do you get your sources from bro?

@ramtin5152 Ай бұрын

@@kmoney3066 The Sassanid books of Touraj Daryaee, Shahnameh, some islamic sources like al Tabari and some Googling here and there

@ramtin5152 Ай бұрын

@@kmoney3066 The Sassanid books of Touraj Daryaee, Shahnameh, some islamic sources like al Tabari and some searching here and there

@arda213 24 күн бұрын

@@kmoney3066 He is a butthurt Persian nationalist. Thats where he gets his sources from. In the video the narrator specifically said the importance of Sukhras resistance was romanticised by later Persian sources.

@jpmuaddib5758 2 ай бұрын

HistoryMarche never disappoints. Makes my day everyday

@DrKarmo 2 ай бұрын

Thank you guys for this video! Theres not enough videos on persian history around and this is awesome

@jugglejunk 2 ай бұрын

Have you heard of/seen the anime/manga of Arslan? It depicts this battle as a part of the start of the series.

@DrKarmo 2 ай бұрын

@@jugglejunk thank you for the recommendation I'll take a look at it

@alexandronichols8239 2 ай бұрын

Wow! This was a reverting story! I've watched dozens and dozens of war videos and this is the first I've seen where a pit was used ro wipe out almost an entire army! Brilliant!

@abhishekbg0610 Ай бұрын

We need more Parthian and Sassanid battles.

@Anonymous-rj2lk 2 ай бұрын

Kushnnawar's victory is not even a decisive victory, it is a PURE victory.

@ramtin5152 Ай бұрын

The Hephthalites were stopped and defeated by an Iranian noble called Sukhra of the house of Karen but since most of the Sassanid army was lost during those 3 battles, they weren't able to take back the lost territories Surkhab quickly installed Peroz brother, Balash, on the Sassanid throne, regrouped the rest of the Sassanid army and marched against the Hephthalite king, Khushnavaz When he reached Gorgan, Khushnavaz was informed of Surkhab's plan of attacking him, he prepared his men for battle and sent a message to Surkhab, asking him his name, official position and intentions Surkhab shortly sent a message back, informing him of his name and position Khushnavaz thereafter sent another message, warning him of doing the same mistake as Peroz I However, he wasn't discouraged by Khushnavaz words and even raided Hephthalite territories, met Hephthalite king's army in battle and inflicted a heavy defeat on him This made Khushnavaz sue for peace which Surkhab would only accept if the Hephthalites would give him everything that had been seized from Peroz camp including all his wealth, royal treasury, his chief priest and Peroz's daughter, Perozdukht His demands were accepted and peace was made He then returned to Ctesiphon, where he was received with great honor by nobles and people like a hero In 503, Kavad I countered and repelled a Hephthalite attack and in 508, a Sasanian campaign under Kavad I, led to the conquest of the Zundaber (Zumdaber) Castellum, associated with the temple of az Zunin in the area of ad Dawar, situated between Bust and Kandahar Based on the Sassanid coin found in Merv, it's indicated that the Sassanids under Kavad I defeated the Hephthalites and reconquered the great Khorasan Khosrow Anushiravan, allied with the Gokturks, and conquered the southern half of the Hephthalite empire while the Gokturks conquered the northern half The Hephthalite king, Ghadfar, and what was left of his men, took refuge in the Sassanid empire under Khosrow Anushiravan Gokturks sent a delegate with gifts to strengthen the alliance They made a treaty and sent, Faghanish, the Hephthalite who was supposed to be their own puppet king to Ctesiphon to be approved by Khosrow who made Faghanish and his kingdom into his own vassal instead In 562, Khosrow defeated the Hephthalites AGAIN and also stopped the threat of Turks Sinjibu attacked the Sassanid borders but in the end, gave his daughter's hand in marriage to Khosrow Anushiravan which wouldn't have been possible without a Sassanid counter attack and victory

@CufCufImam 2 ай бұрын

As Hephthalites were Turkic tribes, the Arab historians in their accounts named South of Afghanistan and central Balochistan as Turan (the land of Turks). The imprints of Hephthalites can be found in many names of places in the region which have their definite origin from the Turkish language

@AmirSatt 2 ай бұрын

and later persians started identifying the entire central Asia as Turan

@Arima.p 2 ай бұрын

Since you are Turks, you also consider God as Turks😂

@awonasinasong8666 2 ай бұрын

Hephthalites are Turkic, but Turan does not mean the country of Turks

@amirloader 2 ай бұрын

😂😂😂The term turan is an Iranian term to refer to turks in Iranian mythic and stories It's funny how pan turks use it for their propaganda

@fatihbaskaya5806 2 ай бұрын

@@Arima.pThey were initially a Turkic people but many of them were assimilated gradually. They had a Khan named Toramana or Toraman which is clearly a Turkic name.

@user-hr9jy8ru1g 2 ай бұрын

Greetings and love everybody and thanks for this informations from Chuvasia,descends of Huns.

@TuwuAshina60 Ай бұрын

We Turks have always made them cry.d

@Frank-ru5im 2 ай бұрын

We're back! gonna enjoy this one. 👍

@wojtek1582 Ай бұрын

Great story. Hail to you for bringing that barely known campaigns!!

@amirloader 2 ай бұрын

Thank you for putting this video for free It's is worth noting how a leader can change the fate of his people, with death of kushnawar his people fell, the same people wich crippled the mighty iranian super power,no more could stand a chance, in other side with ascendant of khosrow anushirvan, the same people wich suffered failure, wiped out the hephthalite There are many of these examples through history

@beno1129 2 ай бұрын

It also shows a negative side of having a dictator/absolute ruler in charge. Once that ruler dies, the system can collapse since it's built around that single person.

@amirloader 2 ай бұрын

@@beno1129 you right in some ways, after each golden age in antiquity in both iran and rome, wich was usually with death of the monarch, the state would shake for a while, for example after khosrow anushirvan for a long time the empire was at stake, the same goes for rome, when justinan died the rome crumbled, many consider justinan golden age the reason arabs were able to defeat rome However the antiquity super powers constitution wasn't that simple, for example in iran there was some parliament of nobles, named *mahestan*wich had to confirm the king, and had the power to depose and choose a new king, so there more than only one man at top and nobles had a huge influence, that was good to control the power of the monarch, whoever many times causes instability in the empire like the last years of the sassanids, in 5 years, 11 king set on the throne by the power of the mahestan, wich caused instability and eventually fall of the empire Overall the old monarchies can not be compared to the modern dictatorships

@hoomandario3847 2 ай бұрын

Thank you for covering Sassanid history. I I look forwards to more awesome videos from you.😊

@KHK001 2 ай бұрын

An amazing video as always HM!

@HistoryMarche 2 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed!

@blaskon1035 26 күн бұрын

it was just so nice. thanks for the vid

@user-vo1uc3bh7t 2 ай бұрын

Wow, this episode is absolutely magnificent! The level of detail and storytelling is incredible. Thank you for making history come alive!😆

@mohammedsaysrashid3587 2 ай бұрын

It was an informative and wonderful historical coverage episode about Haphthalites - Sassanids relationship ( wars, peace agreement, tribulations) at 458-459 AD ...thank you 🙏 ( history Marche) channel for sharing this magnificent episode

@TheHilltopPillbox 2 ай бұрын

I guess the third time wasn't the charm. How many times have we seen emotions cause the destruction of entire armies? Great video!

@user-wi6dk3wj4c 2 ай бұрын

90 percent of historical documentaries are about victories of great empires such as romans or sassanids or British empire, seeing content about their defeats is also nice and make you think.

@user-fl5mq9kp7g 2 ай бұрын

Any defeat, I only see tribes, we will all die because of the stupid racism of the Persians

@AltaicGigachad 2 ай бұрын

The link established by the original Weishu between the Hephtalites and the Gaoju may mean that the Hephtalites were a Turkish tribe and , more precisely , an Oghuric one , as the Gaoju are regarded as inheritors of the old Tiele confederation supposed to be the origin of the various Oghuric tribes . DE LA VAISSIÈRE, ÉTIENNE. “Is There a ‘Nationality of the Hephtalites’?” Bulletin of the Asia Institute, vol. 17, 2003, pp. 119-32.

@jahinsadman1505 2 ай бұрын

bro just say every successfull ruler in history is turkic, in every fakinng video always a turk claiming the ones mentioned having success as TURKICYEEEE

@furkancimen3145 2 ай бұрын

@@jahinsadman1505 helphalit is italian? Native american? Lol. Helphalit is Turk/mongol or iranic

@ayhanfedai5013 2 ай бұрын

@@jahinsadman1505he gave his source so theese werent his claims he quoted from a non Turkish source, dont know whats your problem with Turks but racism and Hatred bad for your own heath health

@mehmetfatihcetin5932 2 ай бұрын

@@jahinsadman1505white huns and european huns have unknown origins but given their names anc where they come from they were probably oghur turkic people however we know that they were also confedaration of many people too. Today oghur turkic people went extinct only ones who still speak that language is christian chuvash people.

@ahmedmanzar4575 Ай бұрын

@@furkancimen3145 hepthalites are indo-iranic peoples

@gandaberunda6267 2 ай бұрын

It's a request to continue this series till the battle of Gol Zarriun. Great work.

@thestach7729 2 ай бұрын

please do a follow up with Peroz's grandson Anushirvan

@treverblanco 2 ай бұрын

Thank you for your work.

@captainfury497 2 ай бұрын

Huns threatened China, Persia, India and Rome ie, all the major civilizations at that time. In fact it was the defeat of the Huns by the Chinese after a long and humiliating war that forced them to move west and threaten the others. Such a threat would not emerge until the Mongols several centuries later.

@ramtin5152 2 ай бұрын

Will you guys make a video about the first Parni king of Parthia Arashk I/Arsaces I ? He used similar nomadic tactics during the Seleucid Parthian wars, lured the Seleucid king, Seleucus II Callinicus, into central Asia, defeated his army and most probably captured him in battle

@AltaicGigachad 2 ай бұрын

Rezakhani, Khodadad (2017). ReOrienting the Sasanians: East Iran in Late Antiquity. Edinburgh University Press. p. 135. The suggestion that the Hephthalites were originally of Turkic origin and only later adopted Bactrian as their administrative, and possibly native, language (de la Vaissière 2007: 122) seems to be most prominent at present. Meanwhile, regarding the origin of the Hephthalites, the recent most dominant opinion holds that they were Turks. Lang, T., n.d. Artifact, text, context. p.196. More recently, it has been argued on the basis of Chinese sources that the Hephthalites were of Turkic origins and later adopted the Bactrian language after settling in Ṭukhāristān. Haug, R., n.d. The eastern frontier.

@bubuluwithagoldendudul9709 2 ай бұрын

Turk didn’t exist then

@user-pc3ts8yc5b 2 ай бұрын

@@bubuluwithagoldendudul9709 Go to Edinburg University, and tell your story to them🤣Look, it's they, who published this lol

@Sonofsasan 2 ай бұрын

They weren't turks they were HUNS stop claiming everything

@Grubmates 2 ай бұрын

Jesus was turk as well 😂

@mr.a6207 2 ай бұрын

@@GrubmatesDude your jahalat is leading me to a deadly diarrhea😂 the Turkic history didn't started yesterday and it was not chained to a specific geography, Turkic history reached to France (European Huns) from Manchuria (gokturks and Xiongnu) of northeastern china and to Morocco (ottomans) from far east India (Mughals and Delhi sultanate) . You can simply search " Territories controlled by Turkic empires and dynasties in the past "

@steveclark5357 2 ай бұрын

history is never ending for learning ,so much history

@JohnSmith-tm5sh 2 ай бұрын

Just read about this in Tom Hollands book about this period, awesome vid

@jozzieokes3422 2 ай бұрын

Nice man. Which one is that?

@TheDragonqueenistheslaye-zz5dp 2 ай бұрын

Great video about a very rarely disscussed topic such as the relations of Persia and her eastern neigbours. The hephtalites, Kushan empire, Indo-sakas - all very interesting and unfortunately very few sourses. And not even to mentioned the numeous city-states. Thanke you!

@nenenindonu 2 ай бұрын

Persia had now again been reduced to the status of a vassal state to the Huns. Peroz, however, had still ... These triumphs over the Sassanians made the name of the Hephthalite Huns a terror to the Persians and other Iranian peoples. Kim, H. (2013). The Huns, Rome and the Birth of Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. P.54

@AltaicGigachad 2 ай бұрын

Gigachad turkic warrior ☝️

@nenenindonu 2 ай бұрын

@@AltaicGigachadOghuric steppe lords, the scariest beings to mankind

@AltaicGigachad 2 ай бұрын

@@nenenindonu yeah reminders me of Oghuric Lenin 🌝

@nenenindonu 2 ай бұрын

@@AltaicGigachadChuvash chad Lenin was the last titan of Oghurs, he's up there with the likes of Krum, Attila, Bayan,... the Oghuric engineering race ultimately completed it's mission by establishing the Eurasian Soviet war machine that saved humanity from evil supremacist ideologies

@AltaicGigachad 2 ай бұрын

@@nenenindonu It sound like God sent oghurics to mankind 🙃

@RostamBahadur 23 күн бұрын

Thank you for unveiling the hidden history of Afghanistan. I'm thrilled that you made this documentary.

@michaelsurratt1864 2 ай бұрын

Wow, I’m a huge fan of history it’s rare that I come upon something that I know absolutely nothing about great video. 👍

@HistoryMarche 2 ай бұрын

I hope you'll like the video. Thanks for watching.

@TriscuitSnacks 2 ай бұрын

"It's rare I come upon something I know absolutely nothing about" Your ego needs a reality check.

@michaelsurratt1864 2 ай бұрын

@@TriscuitSnacks good lord I didn’t say it’s rare I find something that I don’t know everything about. 🤓🤓🤓

@TriscuitSnacks 2 ай бұрын

@@michaelsurratt1864 why do you edit all your comments?

@michaelsurratt1864 2 ай бұрын

@@TriscuitSnacks if you ever used voice to text you'll know why

@SpiderAUT88 28 күн бұрын

That was really interesting. Thank you for this video! I must say Kushnawar must have been a extremly charismatic and military gifted leader. Defeating your enemy 3 times with nearly no fighting at all.

@bohohohohoyt 2 ай бұрын

What does seem certain is that both the White Huns and the European Huns traced their political origins to the Xiongnu Huns. Our Chinese sources for instance confirm that the White Hunnic conquerors of Central Asia were originally Xiongnu. The Wei Shu notes specifically that the 5th century rulers of Sogdia, 108 i.e. the White Huns, are Xiongnu (102.2270) and the same source calls the country ruled by the White Huns wen-na- sha (pronounced Huna sha in Early Middle Chinese, i.e. King of the Huns). 109 Archaeological evidence also supports the Xiongnu-Central Asian Huns connection. A Hunnic-Xiongnu type cauldron was found near the Amu Darya valley in the Khiva area (northwestern Uzbekistan) and two Hunnic funerary cauldrons made of clay were discovered in the delta of the Syr Darya River, which point to the preservation of Xiongnu political and cultural identity among the White Huns. Related artefacts have also been found in areas under the control of the European Huns as well, which leads us to the tentative conclusion that politically and culturally both the European and Central Asian Huns were Xiongnu in origin. 110

@mikebrianmurithi7331 2 ай бұрын

After this be sure to see extra history's khosrau series for what happened next

@danielsantiagourtado3430 2 ай бұрын

Thank you very much! This made my day😊😊😊😊😊❤❤❤❤

@jackland3387 2 ай бұрын

Great video. I never knew about Merv

@CufCufImam 2 ай бұрын

Syriac sources, e. g., the Chronicle of Seert, designate the Eph- talites as `Turks'. Thus, the Ephtalites, besides being called Huns, a name generally giyen to Turkish peoples, were also called Turks not only by the Moslem, or the Islamic sources, but also by some Syriac authors. Frye p. 205.

@Arima.p 2 ай бұрын

Yes and god is Turk

@theheroickhan 2 ай бұрын

@Arima.p Cry little kid, just accept that the Hephthalites are Turkic.

@TimurKhan-dn5vx 2 ай бұрын

@@Arima.p STOP TALKİNG NOW ATTİLA İS TURK HUN NİCKNAME WHİP OF GOD TO ENEMİES.

@Sonofsasan 2 ай бұрын

Huns are different than turks

@Sonofsasan 2 ай бұрын

And aliens are turk 🦃

@user-gm5zt1dr8s 2 ай бұрын

Please make a video about Khosrow I Anushirvan and how he wiped out the Hephthalites and his campaigns against Justin ian I.

@vitorpereira9515 2 ай бұрын

The Huns also caused trouble in India. The Gupta Empire was almost destroyed by them.

@QueenBattle-zb7nz 2 ай бұрын

No governor of Gupta Empire defeated heptalites

@INDIAN_HISTORY0976 2 ай бұрын

But guptas under Narsimhagupta Baladitya defeated them and captured the huna ruler Mihirkula

@DragovianMythiX 2 ай бұрын

@@INDIAN_HISTORY0976 But then the indians were captured by the Mughals and the British.

@theycallmewarlord6003 2 ай бұрын

@@DragovianMythiX are you guys stupid or what ?? Indian history isn't just mughal mughal and british british , same way almost entiire central asians turks made slaves of Russian Empire

@INDIAN_HISTORY0976 2 ай бұрын

@@DragovianMythiX lol and Central Asians turks got raped by Russian empire

@coyote4237 2 ай бұрын

Thank you. Always worth my time to watch and learn from your content.

@backpressure123 2 ай бұрын

Can you cover battle of Qatwan Seljuk Turk vs Khitan. Tang vs Gokturk wars and Han vs Xiongnu wars would be nice too for they are not as well known.

@CHCLA6779 2 ай бұрын

I am so ashamed of just how little I know about the history of this entire region. I grew up in the 50s and 60s in the US and they still (sort of) taught history. But I know just how much of history we never, ever learned - never even thought about. I know more than most of my contemporaries about Western European, US, South American and Australian history - as well as the 'basics' (as far as Americans are concerned) of Middle Eastern and Chinese history. As for the rest? Such as Eastern Europe prior to post-WWII - and the entire complicated history of the Middle East and all of Asia (not to even mention what I should like to know about Africa)? Total blank. Thank you for this documentary - you have pushed me to learn more.

@user-ov4mk9ox8y Ай бұрын

Canada isn't much better: a little pre-industrial British history from a British point of view, and that's it. In grade 8 the curriculum is American history for that year!! What I see in these stories is the drama going on in the world goes way, way back: people in certain areas of the world have been at each others throats for 1,000 or 3,000 years and have a long, long memory about it. I had a family that would not talk to our waitress at all: turns out she was Croatian and they were Serbian........in Canada. Please come to the new world, but leave your emotional baggage behind.

@he4620 2 ай бұрын

Next video for Bahram Chubin vs Gukturks

@hasanteke07 2 ай бұрын

I watched so many war videos and this is best

@Hari-pi2tx 2 ай бұрын

One of the best Video😊

@pigman6420 2 ай бұрын

Thanks i love your content and this was 1 period i didnt know much about(as in the hephtilites) so thanks

@mistertok1 2 ай бұрын

Great video!

@rextucker3184 2 ай бұрын

It was like Aesop's Fables with morals to the story that just kept popping up and adding spice to the battles. And that is a good job by you.

@nenenindonu 2 ай бұрын

Central Asians dominated Iran quite often you had Kanishka's Kushans & White Huns annihilating Parthians & Sassanids respectively, Seljuks dismembering Buyids,.. they ruled the region for the entire past millennium

@ermia4886 2 ай бұрын

Acting as if Shapur didn’t dismantle the Kushans. Shapur II subjugating the Kushans. Khosrow destroyed the Hephtalites

@nenenindonu 2 ай бұрын

@@ermia4886Central Asians still won in the long run from the Seljuks of the 11th to the Qajars in the 20th century CE every ruling dynasty of Iran other than the Zands were of Central Asian (either Turkic or Mongol) stock

@ermia4886 2 ай бұрын

@@nenenindonu Safavid were not central Asian. Neither were Mozzafarids,Ghurids,Kartids Central Asian. I understand Iran suffered from Turco Mongol invasions but Iran also often triumphed for example Safavid battle of mercy against Uzbeks

@nenenindonu 2 ай бұрын

@@ermia4886Ghurids were literally Central Asian to the bone, Safavids a mystery meat, also Kartids and Muzaffarids didn't rule all of Iran the latter being ethnically Arab

@ermia4886 2 ай бұрын

@@nenenindonuI dont consider Afghans as Central Asians.

@silditto Ай бұрын

Its been a long time since I checked this channel, there are so many new videos to binge :D

@bigsarge2085 2 ай бұрын

Learned something new!

@user-nm6dl3mx6l 2 ай бұрын

Your videos are awsome! Thank you for your work!

@abrahamcayasdiaz1072 2 ай бұрын

This made my day

@oneshotme 2 ай бұрын

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@ramtin5152 2 ай бұрын

The Hephthalites were stopped and defeated by an Iranian noble called Sukhra of the house of Karen but since most of the Sassanid army was lost during those 3 battles, they weren't able to take back the lost territories Surkhab quickly installed Peroz brother, Balash, on the Sassanid throne, regrouped the rest of the Sassanid army and marched against the Hephthalite king, Khushnavaz When he reached Gorgan, Khushnavaz was informed of Surkhab's plan of attacking him, he prepared his men for battle and sent a message to Surkhab, asking him his name, official position and intentions Surkhab shortly sent a message back, informing him of his name and position Khushnavaz thereafter sent another message, warning him of doing the same mistake as Peroz I However, he wasn't discouraged by Khushnavaz words and even raided Hephthalite territories, met Hephthalite king's army in battle and inflicted a heavy defeat on him This made Khushnavaz sue for peace which Surkhab would only accept if the Hephthalites would give him everything that had been seized from Peroz camp including all his wealth, royal treasury, his chief priest and Peroz's daughter, Perozdukht His demands were accepted and peace was made He then returned to Ctesiphon, where he was received with great honor by nobles and people like a hero In 503, Kavad I countered and repelled a Hephthalite attack and in 508, a Sasanian campaign under Kavad I, led to the conquest of the Zundaber (Zumdaber) Castellum, associated with the temple of az Zunin in the area of ad Dawar, situated between Bust and Kandahar Based on the Sassanid coin found in Merv, it's indicated that the Sassanids under Kavad I defeated the Hephthalites and reconquered the great Khorasan Khosrow Anushiravan, allied with the Gokturks, and conquered the southern half of the Hephthalite empire while the Gokturks conquered the northern half The Hephthalite king, Ghadfar, and what was left of his men, took refuge in the Sassanid empire under Khosrow Anushiravan Gokturks sent a delegate with gifts to strengthen the alliance They made a treaty and sent, Faghanish, the Hephthalite who was supposed to be their own puppet king to Ctesiphon to be approved by Khosrow who made Faghanish and his kingdom into his own vassal instead In 562, Khosrow defeated the Hephthalites AGAIN and also stopped the threat of Turks Sinjibu attacked the Sassanid borders but in the end, gave his daughter's hand in marriage to Khosrow Anushiravan which wouldn't have been possible without a Sassanid counter attack and victory

@sajidsayyad3323 2 ай бұрын

A great video 📸😊

@conradnelson5283 2 ай бұрын

Great video. Did not really know anything about this.

@Alruwaili11 2 ай бұрын

I love how the persians always charge at the sight of the enemy. No tactics no planning

@viraloracle5151 2 ай бұрын

dont be stupid meshal

@viraloracle5151 2 ай бұрын

سعودي عادي ذو ذكاء منخفض ,

@Alruwaili11 2 ай бұрын

@viraloracle5151 why u angry my lovely neighbour? We love Persia ❤️🇸🇦

@elespectador1887 2 ай бұрын

A Persian military textbook🤣

@armin_koi55 2 ай бұрын

This was due to the Zoroastrian teachings of the Sassanians, who said that one should not deceive in war and should fight the enemy fairly.

@Oguzxon1 2 ай бұрын

You bring up a great topic that has not been covered so far. Thank you

@hamidious 2 ай бұрын

Wow, this Peroz must be the most incompetent Persian king

@dotaultimate6607 2 ай бұрын

Yeah, if he shut his ass to the peace treaty he would've still been alive but he dug his own grave😂

@Teller_of_Tarikh07 27 күн бұрын

@@dotaultimate6607Technically, Khushnavaz dug his grave for him...😉

@dotaultimate6607 27 күн бұрын

@@Teller_of_Tarikh07 yeah you're right 😂

@SilverEye168 2 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for covering this!!!

@ZakkWyldeman 2 ай бұрын

the Göktürks by crushing the Hephtalite empire eventualy led the Hephtalites migrating to Europe, under the name: Avars

@ahmedmanzar4575 Ай бұрын

different people/ avars are actually caucasians. the avars you mention are actually mongol elites of rouran khagante, defeated by gokturks who were turkic. those mongol avars are called pseudo avars,to differentiate against native avars of caucasia

@Literature-Ronin 2 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for doing this video, content on the history of the White Huns is so rare its practically non-existent... Really great detail for such an obscure topic here, well done.

@AmirSatt 2 ай бұрын

My God, Kushnawar literally owned Peroz, installing him on the throne, humiliating him three times, and then marrying his daughter, lmao. What a shame that after such great men like Kushnawar found a great Empire, their descendents lead it to decline and imminent fall, because of the descendants' decadence in a life of comfort

@prs_81 2 ай бұрын

Less about comfort with these steppe empires and more about the relative ineptitude of their leaders succeeding the one great ruler they had previously. It results in their already naturally fragile state to give way and fracture into the multifarious peoples they were all this time. The same happened with Attila and the western Huns.

@shaqhashi6114 2 ай бұрын

Khusnavaz lost to sukhra and then surrendered everything he had gained Peroz was just incompetent

@Techtalk2030 Ай бұрын

Kushnawar lost to the Persians later on. Peroz was just a bad leader

@Techtalk2030 Ай бұрын

@@AmirSatt The Hephthalites (Bactrian: ηβοδαλο, romanized: Ebodalo),[11] sometimes called the White Huns (also known as the White Hunas, in Iranian as the Spet Xyon and in Sanskrit as the Sveta-huna),[12][13] were a people who lived in Central Asia during the 5th to 8th centuries CE, part of the larger group of the Iranian Huns.[14][15] They formed an empire, the Imperial Hephthalites, and were militarily important from 450 CE, when they defeated the Kidarites, to 560 CE, when combined forces from the First Turkic Khaganate and the Sasanian Empire defeated them.[1][16]

@ramtin5152 Ай бұрын

@@AmirSatt The Hephthalites were stopped and defeated by an Iranian noble called Sukhra/Surkhab of the house of Karen but since most of the Sassanid army was lost during those 3 battles, they weren't able to take back the lost territories Surkhab quickly installed Peroz brother, Balash, on the Sassanid throne, regrouped the rest of the Sassanid army and marched against the Hephthalite king, Khushnavaz When he reached Gorgan, Khushnavaz was informed of Surkhab's plan of attacking him, he prepared his men for battle and sent a message to Surkhab, asking him his name, official position and intentions Surkhab shortly sent a message back, informing him of his name and position Khushnavaz thereafter sent another message, warning him of doing the same mistake as Peroz I However, he wasn't discouraged by Khushnavaz words and even raided Hephthalite territories, met Hephthalite king's army in battle and inflicted a heavy defeat on him This made Khushnavaz sue for peace which Surkhab would only accept if the Hephthalites would give him everything that had been seized from Peroz camp including all his wealth, royal treasury, his chief priest and Peroz's daughter, Perozdukht His demands were accepted and peace was made He then returned to Ctesiphon, where he was received with great honor by nobles and people like a hero

@alihaydarkaris8122 28 күн бұрын

great work! i watched it without a wince..

@josephmendez6297 2 ай бұрын

Thanks!

@HistoryMarche 2 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for supporting my work! Very kind of you.

@liberalgoodi Ай бұрын

Make more about Iran please

@whoknows-ee5kq 2 ай бұрын

Hope you cover Battle of Carrhae 53 BC between Roman and Parthian

@vaasukrishnan8321 2 ай бұрын

They already did I think.

@ramtin5152 Ай бұрын

@@vaasukrishnan8321 They didn't That was Cannae

@yanndubois2731 2 ай бұрын

I didn't know about this guy Kushnawar. He was impressive. Thanks for the video (and lesson).

@mabeSc 2 ай бұрын

You would think that Peroz, the third time, would at least be careful or not follow the enemies in their own territory... Man the Sassanians are respectable as a Romaboo but, despite less civil wars, when they started something they really did damage (many times more to themselves).

@ramtin5152 2 ай бұрын

The Sassanid king, Peroz I, was defeated 3 times and killed in the end and most of eastern Sassanid provinces were conquered by Hephthalites However, the Hephthalites were stopped and defeated by an Iranian noble called Sukhra of the house of Karen but since most of the Sassanid army was lost during those 3 battles, they weren't able to take back the lost territories Surkhab quickly installed Peroz brother, Balash, on the Sassanid throne, regrouped the rest of the Sassanid army and marched against the Hephthalite king, Khushnavaz When he reached Gorgan, Khushnavaz was informed of Surkhab's plan of attacking him, he prepared his men for battle and sent a message to Surkhab, asking him his name, official position and intentions Surkhab shortly sent a message back, informing him of his name and position Khushnavaz thereafter sent another message, warning him of doing the same mistake as Peroz I However, he wasn't discouraged by Khushnavaz words and even raided Hephthalite territories, met Hephthalite king's army in battle and inflicted a heavy defeat on him This made Khushnavaz sue for peace which Surkhab would only accept if the Hephthalites would give him everything that had been seized from Peroz camp including all his wealth, royal treasury, his chief priest and Peroz's daughter, Perozdukht His demands were accepted and peace was made He then returned to Ctesiphon, where he was received with great honor by nobles and people like a hero

@ramtin5152 2 ай бұрын

In 503, Kavad I, son of Peroz I, countered and repelled a Hephthalite attack and in 508, a Sasanian campaign under Kavad I, led to the conquest of the Zundaber (Zumdaber) Castellum, associated with the temple of az Zunin in the area of ad Dawar, situated between Bust and Kandahar Based on the Sassanid coin found in Merv, it's indicated that the Sassanids under Kavad I defeated the Hephthalites and reconquered the great Khorasan Khosrow Anushiravan, allied with the Gokturks, and conquered the southern half of the Hephthalite empire while the Gokturks conquered the northern half The Hephthalite king, Ghadfar, and what was left of his men, took refuge in the Sassanid empire under Khosrow Anushiravan Gokturks sent a delegate with gifts to strengthen the alliance They made a treaty and sent, Faghanish, the Hephthalite who was supposed to be their own puppet king to Ctesiphon to be approved by Khosrow who made Faghanish and his kingdom into his own vassal instead In 562, Khosrow defeated the Hephthalites AGAIN and also stopped the threat of Turks Sinjibu attacked the Sassanid borders but in the end, gave his daughter's hand in marriage to Khosrow Anushiravan which wouldn't have been possible without a Sassanid counter attack and victory

@mabeSc 2 ай бұрын

@@ramtin5152 A lot of what you said was covered in the video - especially Khosraw beating up the Hephthalites with the Gokturks. But come on, not even Rome at its weakest was humiliated so bad by the Huns.

@ramtin5152 2 ай бұрын

@@mabeSc Rome literally became Attila's golden egg goose and paid tribute to him far more than Peroz did to the white Huns Attila and Bleda who were literally defeated in the Caucasus by the Sassanids in Armenian lands during the reign of Yazdegerd II The European Huns just didn't conquer wealthy lands like white Huns in central Asia did like Bactria and northern Punjab

@shaqhashi6114 2 ай бұрын

@@mabeScrome became a vassal of the huns quite literally the reason it fell and never ended the huns their army was also destroyed and the pope surrendered to Attila 💀

@Cuebeec 2 ай бұрын

Never heard of kushnawar before, but damn this guy rightfully has a legend status

@danielm3711 2 ай бұрын

People here are posting selected references saying that the Heptalites were definitely Turks. Having Asian facial features and speaking East Asian languages doesn't mean Turkic. Otherwise, Huns, Kidarates, Heltalite, Mongols, Chinese and Koreans are all Turks. It's noteworthy that there was a group of people called Turks contemporary to Heptalites who helped destroy them with the help of Sasanians. Moreover, the most important feature of the Heptalites was that they rejected being nomadic and living a steppe life. They settled in the mountains of Afghanistan and picked up civilization and taxation! This is also evident in Kushanwar (Kushan is an Aryan name) and his style of warfare. Avoiding direct engaging his light nomadic troops with heavy armoured Iranian cataphracts instead relying on tactics. Turks actually did invade Sasanian Iran using nomadic army and techniques and got destroyed multiple times with much much smaller army.

@he4620 2 ай бұрын

You are logical bro. If leave them alone they will call Koreans were Turks😂

@Roust7 2 ай бұрын

Hephtalites were the same group described as Turan by Ferdosi in 11 century.

@user-fl5mq9kp7g 2 ай бұрын

You mean they are Persians, I don't think because their eyes are very small

@ahmedmanzar4575 Ай бұрын

hepthalites were indo iranic/aryanic nomads, mixed with scythians

@danielsantiagourtado3430 2 ай бұрын

Suggestion: James the conqueror and the conquest of valencia and majorca😊😊😊

@user-yt6le1hx1e 2 ай бұрын

well done story of raw... never mind. here is the tribute whose proffering entreaty was amusingly provided at end.

@user-pc3ts8yc5b 2 ай бұрын

There was another battle of Merv in 1510, with far greater geopolitical consequences: Uzbeks lost Khurasan to Safavids

@he4620 2 ай бұрын

Yes, that is another history where Safavid Persia crushed Turkic-Mongolian Uzbeks

@user-pc3ts8yc5b 2 ай бұрын

@@he46201) Parsia and your Mongolic turkey ended with Sassanids and Genghis🤣 2) In 1510, it was a new chapter of geopolitical struggle, forget about your nomadic fairy tales. 3) This was internal war among the remnants of Timurid empire 4) Safavids and Uzbek dynasty both accepted higher culture of Timurid empire and claimed for being Timurid successor in art, architecture, poetry, statehood, science

@he4620 2 ай бұрын

@@user-pc3ts8yc5b Shah Ismaeil called his sons names from Shahnameh and fought with Turks of Uzbeks and Ottomans😂 They called themselves Shah which is a Perisan form of king The facts lies in valid papers and research in google search it and read if you are not blind It is easy to tell bullshets

@he4620 2 ай бұрын

@@user-pc3ts8yc5b Search battle of Marv 1510 and see Persian-Uzbek wars😂 Shah is a Persian form of king used for Persian Safavids idiat

@user-pc3ts8yc5b 2 ай бұрын

@@he4620 1) Ottomans were surely greeks, they all were born from slave greek women. This slave background contradicts to the turkic traditions, so they fail to qualify as turkic. 2) "Shah" as a word, has an indian origin, it was just accepted later by middle eastern people 3) In Old Persian ḵšāyaṯiya was the word for ‘king’ or other monarchs, even this word was not persian, because Persian nomads accepted it from Median.

@aleksdesouza 2 ай бұрын

Turkic Emperor Attila

@Faisal-pb5gu 2 ай бұрын

Can you make a video about the Battle of Kharistan one of the most important battles in early Islamic history, which contributed to keeping Central Asia under Arab control for another century

@abdullahdaniyal114 2 ай бұрын

The Hephtalites one of my favorite turkic empires.

@parsarustami774 2 ай бұрын

tUrKiC lol

@viraloracle5151 2 ай бұрын

my favorite "turkic" empire are the Vikings and Japanese.

@viraloracle5151 2 ай бұрын

@Alex-ni1cu would you believe me if i tell you im actually a Azeri ?

@viraloracle5151 2 ай бұрын

@Alex-ni1cu Не все азербайджанцы говорят по-русски, вы это знаете?

@viraloracle5151 2 ай бұрын

@Alex-ni1cu Армяне - это другая форма тюркского народа,. , are you a tatar ?

@ANZACJugger0 2 ай бұрын

Its not a sunday morning without History Marche

@kursatoz.9988 Ай бұрын

Peroz playing compter game... restart the game same level

@VladTovbinMusic Ай бұрын

Amazing content thank you

@akshatparag2884 2 ай бұрын

Don't expect historical accuracy when Western people are talking about people who destroyed their empires.😂😂😂 Alexander "Great" but Attila "Barbar" HAHAHAHAHA Western countries hates him because he was Asian. Else they were also called THE GREAT

@user-pg9qb3wy7s 2 ай бұрын

Say it to Cirus the Great

@ae-jo5gc 2 ай бұрын

Luxemburg hate him because he is Asian? Seens when?

@ae-jo5gc 2 ай бұрын

The irish hates him because he is Asian?

@PSe5462 2 ай бұрын

@@user-pg9qb3wy7s Who are you comparing with Cyrus the great was not only a military ginus but also known for human rights Alex was just a g.ay raider😂

@solarnovas 2 ай бұрын

Don''t expect historical accuracy? LOL nobody would know anything about them if "western people" didn't write about them. You think anybody would know who Attila was if the Romans and Greeks didn't write about him? The Huns were illiterate and therefore wrote nothing about themselves. You sound extremely butthurt for some reason.

@WilliamStreiff 11 күн бұрын

That was fascinating i didn't know about the Attila of the East, a tactical Mastermind and a real bad ass,, and really kinda of cool for a warlord,one of my new favorite people in ancient military history 😁👍☠️

@Ümid_Türks-edits 11 күн бұрын

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