A PROMINENT HEPHTHALITE: KATULPH AND THE FALL OF THE HEPHTHALITE EMPIRE

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" A PROMINENT HEPHTHALITE: KATULPH AND THE FALL OF THE HEPHTHALITE EMPIRE "
Szabolcs Felföldi

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	811429
Doc. No	:	LA99103
Main Entry	:	Szabolcs Felföldi
Title & Author	:	A PROMINENT HEPHTHALITE: KATULPH AND THE FALL OF THE HEPHTHALITE EMPIRE [Article]\ Szabolcs Felföldi
Title of Periodical	:	Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae
Date	:	2001
Volume/ Issue Number	:	54-2/3
Page No	:	191--202
Abstract	:	The Byzantine author Menander Protector reports the story of Κάτονλφοζ (Katulph), a member of Hephthalite nobility. This prominent Hephthalite took part in the events of the defeat of the Hephthalite Empire. He was one of the most important political persons of that epoch and area, someone who was the advisor not just of the Hephthalite ruler, but later the Türk Ištämi and what is more the Persian Great King Xusrō Anōšarwān I. This treatise deals with the so far unexamined Κάτονλφοζ-story and tries to define who Κάτονλφοζ actually was. Beside the thorough examination of the Byzantine source and the name Κάτονλφοζ I clarify some serious misunderstandings (such as the identification of Κάτονλφοζ with the last Hephthalite ruler), which are widespread in the secondary sources (for example in the works of Drouin, Haussig and Ghirshman).