Hormizd III: king of Persia, ruling from 457 to 459, member of the Sasanian dynasty.Main deeds:
Name: Hormizd III
Beginning of reign: 457
Successor of: his father Yazdgard II
Civil war with his brother Peroz I; Hormizd, whose power base is Reyy, is defeated…
Hormizd V: king of Persia, ruling in c.593 CE, member of the Sasanian dynasty.Main deeds:
Name: Hormizd V
Reign: Rebellion during the first regnal years of Khusrau II the Victorious
General Literature on Sasanian Persia
Touraj Daryaee, Sasanian Persia. The Rise and Fall of an…
Hormizd VI: king of Persia, ruling from 630 to 632, member of the Sasanian dynasty.Main deeds:
Name: Hormizd VI
The Sasanian king Khusrau II fought a long war against the Byzantines, but was defeated by the Byzantine emperor Heraclius.
In 628, Khusrau was replaced…
Hostilian: emperor of the Roman world (r. 251).
Hostilian
Names:
c.230-235: Gaius Valens Hostilianus
September 250: caesar; Princeps Iuventutis
June 251: Imperator Caesar Gaius Valens…
Hydarnes (Old Persian Vidarna): Persian nobleman, one of the seven conspirators who killed the Magian usurper Gaumâta, helped Darius I the Great become king of the Achaemenid empire and was rewarded with the satrapy of Media.
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Hydarnes (Old Persian Vidarna): Persian nobleman, commander of the "immortals" during Xerxes' expedition to Greece (480 BCE).
Achaemenid nobleman
Hydarnes was the…
Hydraotes (Old Indian Iravati, modern Ravi): river in the Punjab, where Alexander the Great attacked a group of refugees.The river Ravi, the ancient Hydraotes or Iravati, south of modern Kamalia. This part of the Punjab belonged to the Mallians (Malava),…
Hystaspes (OP. Vištâspa): name of several noble Persians and Bactrians. One of them is mentioned in the Avesta, the holy book of Zoroastrianism, the Persian religion that was founded by the legendary prophet Zarathustra. Vištâspa, the son of Aurvat-aspa, was the…
Hystaspes (OP. Vištâspa): name of several noble Persians and Bactrians. One of them is the father of king Darius I the Great, who is mentioned in several Persian and Greek texts.
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Icosium (Greek: Ἰκόσιον): Phoenician colony, Roman city, modern Algiers.Icosium
Mosaic from Roman Icosium
Founded by the Phoenicians; the site is more or…