Dynasties of Afghanistan

late 8th-century–1215 Iranian dynasty from Ghor, modern Afghanistan

a Medieval Muslim Turkic dynasty ruling at eastern Iran and northern India (977–1196)

Afghan monarchy of the Ghilji Pashtuns (1709–1738)

The Kidarites, or Kidara Huns, were a dynasty that ruled Bactria and adjoining parts of Central Asia and India in the 4th and 5th centuries. The Kidarites belonged to a complex group of peoples known collectively in India as the Huna, and in Europe as the Chionites (from the Iranian names Xwn/Xyon), and may even be considered as identical to the Chionites. The 5th century Byzantine historian Priscus called them Kidarite Huns, or "Huns who are Kidarites". Chinese annals referred to them as the Ta Yüeh-chih, or Lesser Yüeh-chih. The Huna/Xionite tribes are often linked, albeit controversially, t

Huns in South Asia in the 5-6th century CE

royal dynasty south of the Hindu Kush

medieval Turco-Mongol dynasty

Turkic Central Asian Kingdom

484–665 Huna state in the Hindu Kush region

The Banijurids or Abu Dawudids were a short-lived Iranian dynasty that ruled Tukharistan and parts of the Hindu Kush. They were vassals of the Samanids until their fall in 908.

The Qarlughids were a tribe of Turkic origin that controlled Ghazni, lands of the Bamyan, the Kurram Valley (Ghazna, Banban, and Kurraman), and established a short-lived Muslim principality and dynasty that lasted between 1236 and 1266. The Qarlughids (Karluk Turks) arrived from the north to settle in the regions of Hazarajat together with the armies of Muhammad II of Khwarezm, the Shah of Khwarezm.

Term roughly equivalent to Huna people