Mongol Empire · TURNING POINT ·
Siege of Alamut (1256)
On the Mongol Empire map as “Alamut surrenders”
1256 — The Assassins’ mountain fortresses — which had defied the Seljuks for 150 years and sent killers against Mongol princes — are reduced one by one by Hülegü’s siege train. The historian Juvaini, in Mongol service, begs leave to save books from Alamut’s library as it burns.
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- Fall of Baghdad and Ain Jalut (chapter 8 of Mongol Empire)
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- The Mongol Empire, 1206–1294
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