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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;medoraman, post: 2161534, member: 26302&quot;]Tom Mallon used to have on his website a PhD dissertation from a Berlin University. It was a review of all research on Hepthalites, especially Russian. In there they talk about the origin of the name, because clearly that group of people were Chionites first, but later universally were called Hepthalites. Some research thought Heptal might have been a certain leader, other thought it might by the name of the family that came to prominence amongst the Chionites, like the YuehChi later became known as the Kushans after the name of the most prominent clan.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I have never read much of anything about the name of leadership of the Chionites/Hepthalites. I doubt much is known. Unfortunately, the Hepthalites either used Sassanian coins or imitated them. They never struck coins in the name of their rulers.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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