Hormizd IV the Turk
Hormizd IV, nicknamed the Turk: king of Persia, ruling from 579 to 590, member of the Sasanian dynasty.
Main deeds:
- Name: Hormizd IV the Turk
- Beginning of reign: 579
- Successor of: Khusrau I Deadless Soul
- Inherits a war against the Byzantine Empire that will last during all his reign
- Has to fight against the Turks in the northeast, who are gradually replacing the Hephthalites (White Huns) as great power in Central Asia
- 588 Outbreak of civil war. Bahram VI, a hero from the Turkish war, succesfully marches against Hormizd
- 590 Hormizd is overthrown, taken captive, blinded, replaced by his son Khusrau, and killed. Khusrau inherits the war against Bahram and flees to Constantinople
- End of reign: 590
- Succeeded by: Khusrau II the Victorious
General Literature on Sasanian Persia
- Touraj Daryaee, Sasanian Persia. The Rise and Fall of an Empire (2009)
- Josef Wiesehöfer, Das antike Persien. Von 550 v. Chr. bis 650 n. Chr. (1994)