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Khingila I

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Khingila I (Chinese: Cha-Li) c.430-490 apparently of the "Haital" (Chinese: 厌哒 or 嚈噠) tribe from Kushan (Chinese: 貴霜), contemporary with Akhshunwar (fl. 484 in Khwarezm).

"A great fog arose from the sea scaring people and this was followed by countless number of vultures descending on the people."

In response to this migration of the Wusun (hard-pressed by the Rouran) from Balkhash to the Pamir (Chinese:葱嶺) region Khingila united the Uar (Chinese: 滑) and the Xiyon (Chinese: 西戎) in 460AD establishing his Hepthalite (Chinese: 厌带夷栗陁) dynasty. The need for new grazing to replace that lost to the Wusun led Khingila's "Uar-Chionites" to displace the Sabirs to the west; who in turn displace the Saragur, Ugorg and Onogur -who then asked for an alliance and land from Byzanteum (according to the Syrian compilation of Church Historian Zacharias Rhetor bishop of Mytilene).

Preceded by:
Akshuwar
List of Hepthalite rulers Succeeded by:
Toramana I