Hormizd IV
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Person
- Born
- 0540-01-01
- Died
- 0590-01-01
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
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· 2008 · cited 1,322x
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· 2020 · cited 1,243x
- Microfluidic cell sorting: a review of the advances in the separation of cells from debulking to rare cell isolation
· 2015 · cited 928x
- The Fourteenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Spectroscopic Data from the Extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey and from the Second Phase of the Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment
· 2018 · cited 891x
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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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Key dates
- Born
- 1 January 540
- Died
- 1 January 590
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Sasanian Empire
- Place of birth
- Ctesiphon
- Place of death
- Ctesiphon
- Child
- Khosrow II
- Father
- Khosrow I
- Sibling
- Anosazad
- Occupation
- sovereign
- Languages spoken
- Middle Persian
Article
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.