Herodotus of Halicarnassus (c.480-c.429 BCE): Greek researcher, often called the world's first historian. In The Histories, he describes the expansion of the Achaemenid Empire under its kings Cyrus the Great, Cambyses, and Darius I the Great, culminating in Xerxes' expedition to Greece (480 BCE), which met with disaster…
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…
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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