ILK O‘RTA ASRLARDA HOZIRGI AFG‘ONISTON HUDUDLARIDA XIONIYLAR VA EFTALIYLAR MASALASI

This article provides information about the Khionites and Ephthalites, who entered the territories of present-day Afghanistan in the early Middle Ages. During this period, the role of Khionis and Ephtalians (in terms of their proto-Turkic or, in a certain sense, ethnic affinity with Turks) who entered the territories of Afghanistan in the ethnogenetic formation of the Turkic peoples in the region, as well as their influence on the socio-political and ethno-cultural processes in the region, was analyzed in detail.