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spent most of his life waging inconclusive military expeditions against the Kidarites but his last conflict on the seventeenth year of his reign, suffered fatality according to two Armenian historians and ended up as a tributary to the
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court, they were either disfigured or killed and were sent back to Persia along with the information that the reason of the act was nothing except for the fake promise of
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because of the arrival of various central Asian nomadic tribes on their east and had struggles against them. During this period, the
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proclaimed himself as the "Kidara King of the Kushans" on his coins as because the area was similar as of the western Kushans or
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In the fourth conflict , alliance between the alchons and Sassanids push the Kidarite power out of Bactria.
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in the Persian Campaign of the Western Caspian areas has been described by the Contemporary Eyewitness
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ruler of eastern Bactria, together they put an end to the Kidarite power by 466 and the
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coins. The victory against the Kidarites were announced by the Sasanian embassy in
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In the second conflict, huns defeated the Sassanids and occupied Bactria.
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came to know about the fact, they in turn wanted to do the same to the
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then sought peace and offered marriage his sister in marriage to the
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but instead sent a women of lower status, after a while when the
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by asking for military experts in the hunnic army from Persia.
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had to abandon his military expedition to the city of
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refused to pay tribute, this became a reason for the
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were a series of military confrontations between the
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Index

Bactria
Central Asia

Sasanian Empire
Alchon Huns
Hepthalites
Kidarites
Shapur II
Bahram IV
Yazdgard II
Peroz
Mehama
Grumbates
Kidara
Varhan
Sassanid Empire
Kidarites
Sassanids
Nisibis
Xionite
Huna
Kidarites
Sassanids
Guptas
Kidarites
Sassanids
Romans
Shapur II
Kidarites
Ammianus Marcellinus

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