Pastlasby Oleh Voronko

State · 408 – 670

Hephthalites

A state of 408 – 670 — 262 years in South Asia. It replaced Gupta Empire. The atlas records 1 thing within it — wars and battles 1.

For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.

Stood
262 years
408 – 670
Most ground
3.30 million km²
in 490
Within it
1
recorded row
Symbol
1
on record, with years
Map: Hephthalites in 490, its borders in gold among its neighbours
Hephthalites in 490, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 3.30 million km². Its neighbours wear their tints, as on the atlas's own map. Borders from Cliopatria (CC BY 4.0), coast and rivers from Natural Earth, cities from Reba, Reitsma & Seto 2016 (CC BY 4.0), each city under the name it bore that year.
Hephthalites in 410, first mapped

410 · first mapped · 487,800 km²

Hephthalites in 490, at its largest

490 · at its largest · 3.30 million km²

Hephthalites in 555, last mapped

555 · last mapped · 1.45 million km²

The rise and the fall in one frame: the same ground at the years the borders dataset first maps it, maps it largest, and last maps it.

Where it sits in time

3000 BCE2000 BCE1000 BCE110002000Gupta Empire: 320 – 550Hephthalites: 408 – 670

Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold, what it replaced or followed and what replaced or followed it in grey.

Before and after

The states the record files it as replacing or following, and those that replaced or followed it - Wikidata's own statements, each read from this state's side.

Before it

Ground held, by year

km² inside its borders as the borders dataset draws them, measured on an equal-area grid; a step series, held between the years the dataset maps.

450500550

487,800 km² in 418, 1.45 million km² in 558; at its largest 3.30 million km² in 498. Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0.

Flag or arms

Each symbol with the years its own statement gives; the timeline flies the one of the year on screen.

  • Hephthalite tamgha
    tamga, undatedHephthalite tamgha · CC BY-SA 4.0 · पाटलिपुत्र (Patna)

What happened within it, by century

Every row the atlas hosts under this state, by the century it began in: wars and battles in red, risings, regime changes and massacres beside them, everything else in grey. A tall bar is a century the record is full for, which is partly a fact about Wikipedia.

400 – 499: 0 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 0 other400500 – 599: 1 recorded — 1 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 0 other500600 – 699: 0 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 0 other600

500 – 5991 row · 1 wars and battles

Among all states

Each measure against the states that carry it, never against all of them: a bar is the share of those states below this one.

  • How long it stood262 years

    stood longer than 70% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.

  • The most ground it held3,300,700 km²

    held more ground at its peak than 96% of 1,465 states with a border in Cliopatria.

  • Wars recorded per centurynone

    had more wars on record per century than 44% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.

What led to it, and what came of it

The investigation's own picture: 1 cause the record names and 1 result, the strongest six of each at their own years, joined to the state by the kind of claim - a recorded statement solid, the article's sentence dashed, a theory dash-dot.

Gupta Empire · Linked · 320 – 550Gupta EmpireHephthalites · 408 – 670HephthalitesBattle of Herat · In the article · 1598 · “The coinage of Peroz I in effect flooded Tokharistan, taking precedence over all other Sasanian issues. When Kavad was ransomed Peroz I again attacked the Hep…”Battle of Herat50010001500
in the articlelinked

Open the investigation: every row with its evidence, the conditions at the time, the theories condition by condition, and the succession analysed.

Open in the atlas

Wikidata Q26576 (CC0) · borders Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0 · coast and rivers Natural Earth · symbols from Wikimedia Commons, each credited above · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.