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Nezak Huns

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Nezak HunsCapitalCommon languagesReligionGovernmentMalka• 6-7th century CE• 653 - 665Historical era• Established• DisestablishedCurrencyToday part of

484–665

Royal Bull's-head crown of the Nezak kings

The Nezak kingdom in 565 CE

Ghazna, Kapisa

Pahlavi script (written)

Buddhism, Zoroastrianism

Nomadic empire

Napki Malka

Ghar-ilchi

Late Antiquity

484

665

Hunnic Drachm

Afghanistan

The Nezak Huns were one of the four groups of Huna people in the area of the Hindu Kush. The Nezak kings, with their characteristic gold bull's-head crown, ruled from Ghazni and Kapisa. While their history is obscured, the Nezak's left significant coinage documenting their polity's prosperity. They are called Nezak because of the inscriptions on their coins, which often bear the mention "Nezak Shah". They were the last of the four major "Hunic" states known collectively as Xionites or "Hunas", their predecessors being, in chronological order, the Kidarites, the Hephthalites, and the Alchon.

The term 'Hun' may cause confusion. The word has three basic meanings: 1) the Huns proper, that is, Attila's people; 2) groups associated with the Huna people who invaded northern India; 3) a vague term for Hun-like people. Here the word has the second meaning with elements of the third.

Contents

• 1History
  • 1.1Alchon retreat from India
• 2Main rulers
• 3Coinage
• 4See also
• 5References
• 6External links

History

Nezak Huns ruler, circa 460-560 CE.

 

The Nezaks enter the historical record in the late 5th century, with their minting of coins in Ghazni, which had previously been controlled by the Sassanian Persians, the Indo-Sasanians. Their emergence may have been a consequence of the weakening of Persian influence in the region after the defeat of the Persian king Peroz by the Hephthalites (a people related to the Nezak), in Bactria in 484 CE.

From that point, the Nezaks consolidated their power in Zabulistan and in the 6th century expanded into Kabulistan, deposing the Alchon Huns from Kapisa.

Nezak coins with the bull's crown appear well into the 8th century,[1] at which time it appears that a confederacy emerges between the Nezaks and the Alchons, possibly against Turkic invaders.[2]

 

Alchon retreat from India

"Alchon-Nezak Crossover" coinage, 580-680. Nezak-style bust on the obverse, and Alchon tamga within double border on the reverse.

 

Around the middle of the 6th century CE, the Alchons, after having extensively invaded the heartland of India, had withdrawn from Kashmir, Punjab and Gandhara, and going back west across the Khyber pass they resettled in Kabulistan. There, their coinage suggests that they merged with the Nezak Huns.[3]

Eventually, the Nezak-Alchons were replaced by the Turk shahi dynasty,[2] first in Zabulistan and then in Kabulistan. The last Nezak king known by name was Ghar-ilchi, who was confirmed by the Chinese emperor. Between 661 and 665, Chinese and Arab sources indicate that a new Turkic ruler became Shah of Kabul.[4] Having lost Ghazni and Kabul, the Nezak dynasty declined rapidly as indicated by the progressive elimination of Nezak symbols from the historical coin record.

Main rulers

 

Details of Nezak Hun headdress.

• Napki Malka (Gandhara, c. 475–576).
• Shri Shahi, circa 560-620 CE.
• Ghar-ilchi, 653-665

Coinage

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  Billon drachm of King Napki Malka (Gandhara, c. 475–576).

 

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  Nezak Huns Anonymous ("Nezak Shah") circa 500-560.

 

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  Coin minted in Ghazni

 

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  Billon drachm

 

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  Bronze drachm

 

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  Nezak king Napki Malka

 

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  Nezak Huns ruler Shri Shahi, circa 560-620 CE.

 

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  Shahi Tegin (Sri Shahi) of the Nezac Huns (680-738).

 

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  Nezak Huns ruler Sahi Tigin (?) Early 8th century CE.

See also

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