Hormizd III. (-459)
Query URLs
https://term.museum-digital.de/md-de/persinst/66109
- Name (English)
- Hormizd III.
- Short name
- Hormizd III
- Year of death
- 459
- Short Description
- "Hormizd III (Middle Persian: 𐭠𐭥𐭧𐭥𐭬𐭦𐭣; New Persian: هرمز سوم), was the seventeenth king (shah) of the Sasanian Empire, ruling briefly from 457 to 459. He was the son and successor of Yazdegerd II (r. 438–457). His reign was marked by the rebellion of his younger brother Peroz I, who with the aid of one of the Seven Great Houses of Iran, the House of Mihran, and the eastern neighbours of the Sasanians, the Hephthalites, had him captured and executed." - (en.wikipedia.org 11.08.2021)
- Entity Encoding
- pik
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