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Alamut (Persian: دژ الموت)
Those who favor
ambitious excursions and unusual historical episodes
are recommended to hire a car and a guide to go near
the source of the Alamut river on the southern
foothills of the Alborz Mountains (requiring one
full Day for the return journey). There, fortified
eagles' nests recall unbelievable but authentic
adventures of the "Old Man of the Mountains" -
Hassan Sabah, The Grand Master (1040-1124) - and of
his sect of "Assassins" or "Hashashins."
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In 2004, an earthquake further damaged the already
crumbling walls of the fort.
From a high mountain fortress, Ibn al-Sabbah
directed a ruthless campaign against the overlords
of other sects in Persia, Iraq and Syria. Northwest
of Qazvin, atop the Alborz Mountains, on a lonely
ridge 6000 feet above the sea, stood the castle of
Alamut (eagles nest). Commanding a royal view of
the valley below, accessible only by a single,
almost vertical pathway, the remote fortress was an
ideal hideout and headquarters. In 1090, Hasan
seized the fortress of Alamut, and the castle
henceforth received the name of the Abode of
Fortune. The position of Alamut caused its prince to
receive the title Shaykh al Jabal "Prince of the
Mountain", and the double sense of the word Shaykh,
which means both prince and old man, has occasioned
the historians of the Crusades and the celebrated
Marco Polo, to call him the Old Man of the
Mountain.
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