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Hormizd IV
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Hormizd IV was a male sovereign of the Sasanian Empire, holding the noble title of shah. Born in Ctesiphon in 540, he was a member of the Sasanian dynasty and practiced Zoroastrianism. His father was Khosrow I, and he had a sibling named Anosazad. He spoke Middle Persian and was the father of Khosrow II.
Hormizd IV died in Ctesiphon in 590. His manner of death was homicide, specifically strangling. He was killed by Vistahm and Vinduyih.
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Norristown
Discography
- IV2019
- Freestyle2019
- Legends2019
- IV World2020
- Ice2020
- IV World 22020
- IV 22021
- Frosty2021
- A Love Alone2022
- White Out2025
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Design and synthesis of metal–organic frameworks using metal–organic polyhedra as supermolecular building blocks
· 2009 · cited 1,710x
- A key role for autophagy and the autophagy gene Atg16l1 in mouse and human intestinal Paneth cells
· 2008 · cited 1,328x
- The 16th Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys: First Release from the APOGEE-2 Southern Survey and Full Release of eBOSS Spectra
· 2020 · cited 1,297x
- Global Divas
· 2003 · cited 1,017x
- Microfluidic cell sorting: a review of the advances in the separation of cells from debulking to rare cell isolation
· 2015 · cited 942x
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Key facts
- Reign
- 579–590
- Predecessor
- Khosrow I
- Successor
- Bahram Chobin (rival king) , Khosrow II (successor)
- Born
- c. 540
- Died
- June 590 (aged 50), Ctesiphon
- Spouse
- Unnamed Ispahbudhan noblewoman, Unnamed Christian noblewoman
- Issue
- Khosrow II , Unnamed daughter
- House
- House of Sasan
- Father
- Khosrow I
- Mother
- Khazar princess
- Religion
- Zoroastrianism
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Encyclopedic overview
Hormizd IV (also spelled Hormozd IV or Ohrmazd IV; Middle Persian: 𐭠𐭥𐭧𐭥𐭬𐭦𐭣) was the King of Kings of Sasanian Iran from 579 to 590. He was the son and successor of Khosrow I (r. 531–579) and his mother was a Khazar princess.
During his reign, Hormizd IV had the high aristocracy and Zoroastrian priesthood slaughtered while supporting the landed gentry (the dehqans). His reign was marked by constant warfare: to the west, he fought a long and indecisive war with the Byzantine Empire, which had been ongoing since the reign of his father; and to the east, the Iranian general Bahram Chobin successfully contained and defeated the Western Turkic Khaganate during the First Perso-Turkic War. It was also during Hormizd IV's reign that the Chosroid dynasty of Iberia was abolished. After negotiating with the Iberian aristocracy and winning their support, Hormizd successfully incorporated Iberia into the Sasanian Empire.
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