High Middle Ages · Middle East · Religion
1090
Hassan-i Sabbah takes Alamut
1090
The Nizari Ismaili propagandist seized the mountain fortress of Alamut in the Elburz range north of Qazvin without a blow, by converting its garrison one by one. From this eagle-nest he launched the movement Europeans would learn to call the Assassins. The word derives from the hashish his followers supposedly used.
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High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.
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