The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c29.189

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The dominion of the White Huns in the Oxus valley did not long survive the defeat and death of Mihiragula in India. The arrival of the Turks in the middle of the sixth century changed the situation completely. The Turkish tribes, having vanquished a rival horde called Joan-joan, made an alliance with Khusrū Anūshīrvān, king of Persia, grandson of Fīrōz, who had been killed by the Huns in A. D. 484, and the allies at some date between 563 and 567 destroyed the White Huns. For a short time the Persians held Balkh and other portions of the Hun territory; but the gradual weakening of the Sassanian power soon enabled the Turks to extend their authority towards the south as far as Kapisa, and annex the whole of the countries which had been included in the Hun empire.²