Claim: Afghanistan is the source of only the Kushan Empire.
Evidence: The land also served as the source from which the Kushans , Hephthalites , Samanids , Saffarids , Ghaznavids , Ghorids , Khiljis , Mughals , Hotaks , Durranis , and others have risen to form major empires.
Hephthalites -LRB- or Ephthalites -RRB- was the Latinised exonym for a people commonly known in Chinese sources by names such as Yada -LRB- 嚈噠 , Yè dā -RRB-.