Mongols take Alamut
1256 · Event
Hulagu's army forces the surrender of the Nizari Ismaili 'Assassins' in their mountain fortress of Alamut and burns its famous library.
On these timelines: Mongol Empire, Persia and Iran, Master, Islam, Major Religions
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