Hormizd (

Middle Persian Middle Persian, also known by its endonym Pārsīk or Pārsīg ( Inscriptional Pahlavi script: , Manichaean script: , Avestan script: ) in its later form, is a Western Middle Iranian language which became the literary language of the Sasania ...

; in ''Hormisdas'', ''Ormisdas''; ) was a

Sassanid The Sasanian Empire (), officially Eranshahr ( , "Empire of the Iranian peoples, Iranians"), was an List of monarchs of Iran, Iranian empire that was founded and ruled by the House of Sasan from 224 to 651. Enduring for over four centuries, th ...

prince, the third son of King

Hormizd II Hormizd II (also spelled Hormozd or Ohrmazd; ) was king (shah) of the Sasanian Empire. He ruled for six years and five months, from 303 to 309. He was a son and successor of Narseh (). During his reign, the Kingdom of Armenia had recently decla ...

and brother-in-law of King

Shapur II Shapur II ( , 309–379), also known as Shapur the Great, was the tenth King of Kings (List of monarchs of the Sasanian Empire, Shahanshah) of Sasanian Iran. He took the title at birth and held it until his death at age 70, making him the List ...

. Imprisoned by him, he was freed by his wife in 323 and escaped to

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, where Roman Emperor

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helped him and gave him a palace near the shore of the

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.Janin, 333;

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, ''Historia Nova'', II, 27, 1-4;

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, ''Res Gestae'', XVI, 10.16. This palace became an important toponym of the city: its neighborhood (where the

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of Little Hagia Sophia still stands) was known in

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times as ''en tois Hormisdou'' (), meaning "near the houses of Hormisdas". Later,

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became the private residence of

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, before his accession to the throne. In 363, Hormizd served against Persia in the army of the Emperor Julian (361–363); in turn, his son, of the same name, later served as proconsul (

26.8.12).

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