Ephthaliten.adj.

1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall II. xxvi. 584 They preserved the name of Huns, with the epithet of Euthalites or Nepthalites.

1838 H. H. Milman Gibbon's Decline & Fall iv. xxvi. 351 The Armenian authors often mention this people under the name of Hepthal. St. Martin considers that the name Nephthalites is an error of a copyist. In Procopius they are Ἐϕθαλίται.]

1882 Encycl. Brit. XIV. 59/2 This white race..around the Caspian and the Euxine..appear in European history as White Huns (Ephthalites), White Ugrians..White Bulgarians.

1920 in H. G. Wells Outl. Hist. xxxi. 397/1 Some state under Ephthalite dominion.

1957 Encycl. Brit. XII. 160/1 Under Skandagupta (455–470) the [Gupta] empire was successfully defended..and the Ephthalite invasions postponed for nearly 50 years.

1965 G. Wheeler Mod. Hist. Soviet Central Asia i. 5 In the fifth century southern Turkestan was conquered by the Ephthalites or White Huns.

1973 L. Dupree Afghanistan xv. 301 The early phases of the Kushano-Sasanian period in Afghanistan lasted until about the mid-fifth century A.D. with the arrival of the Hephthalites (or Ephthalites).