Who ruled

And beyond the steppe

  • China Northern Wei Emperor Wencheng 452–465 · Emperor Xianwen 465–471
  • Iran Sasanian Peroz I 459–484
  • Korea Goguryeo Jangsu 413–491
  • Byzantium Leonid Leo I 457–474

Western steppe

  • Culture · Sogdian colonists found the first towns of Semirech'e, Suyab and Navaket among them, as estates of nobles (450–600)

    Suyab · Sogdians

Tarim and Sogdiana

  • Culture · Towns founded and walls built in Sogdiana under the Kidarites: Panjikent, Paikent, Bukhara; the citadel of Samarkand raised (440–470)

    Sogdiana · Samarkand · Paikent · Bukhara

Persia

  • The Persian king Peroz tries to end his war with the Kidarite Huns by a false marriage; their king Kunchas kills or maims 300 Persian nobles

    Kidarites