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Siege of Maymun-Diz, the Glossary

The siege of Maymun-Diz, an unlocated fortress and the stronghold of the leader of the Nizari Ismaili state, Imam Rukn al-Din Khurshah, occurred in 1256, during the Mongol campaign against the Nizaris led by Hülegü.^[1]

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1256 disestablishments in Asia
1256 in the Mongol Empire
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History of Qazvin province
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Abaqa Khan

Abaqa Khan (27 February 1234 – 4 April 1282, ᠠᠪᠠᠭ᠎ᠠᠬᠠᠨ (Traditional script), "paternal uncle", also transliterated Abaġa), was the second Mongol ruler (Ilkhan) of the Ilkhanate.

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Alamut

Alamut (الموت) or Rudbar (رودبار) is a region in Iran including western and eastern parts on the western edge of the Alborz (Elburz) range, between the dry and barren plain of Qazvin in the south and the densely forested slopes of the Mazandaran province in the north.

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Alamut Castle

Alamut (الموت) is a mountain fortress at an altitude of 2163 meters at the central Alborz, in the Iranian stanza of Qazvin, about 100 kilometers from Tehran. Siege of Maymun-Diz and Alamut Castle are 1256 disestablishments in Asia and sieges involving the Mongol Empire.

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Anatolia

Anatolia (Anadolu), also known as Asia Minor, is a large peninsula or a region in Turkey, constituting most of its contemporary territory.

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Arghun Aqa

Arghun Agha, also Arghun Aqa or Arghun the Elder (- 1275) was a Mongol noble of the Oirat clan in the 13th century.

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Arran (Caucasus)

Arran (Middle Persian form; Persian: اران or اردان), also known as Aran or Ardan, was a geographical name used in ancient and medieval times to signify a historically-Iranian region which lay within the triangle of land, lowland in the east and mountainous in the west, formed by the junction of the Kura and Aras rivers, including the highland and lowland Karabakh, Mil plain and parts of the Mughan plain.

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Ata-Malik Juvayni

Atâ-Malek Juvayni (عطاملک جوینی; 1226–1283), in full, Ala al-Din Ata-ullah (علاءالدین عطاءالله), was a Persian historian and an official of the Mongol state who wrote an account of the Mongol Empire entitled Tarikh-i Jahangushay ("History of the World Conqueror").

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Azerbaijan (Iran)

Azerbaijan or Azarbaijan (italic), also known as Iranian Azerbaijan, is a historical region in northwestern Iran that borders Iraq and Turkey to the west, and the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic, Armenia, and the Republic of Azerbaijan proper to the north.

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Ögedei Khan

Ögedei Khan (also Ögedei Khagan or Ogodei; – 11 December 1241) was the second ruler of the Mongol Empire.

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Bastam

Bastam (بسطام) is a city in, and the capital of, Bastam District of Shahrud County, Semnan province, Iran.

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Batu Khan

Batu Khan (–1255) was a Mongol ruler and founder of the Golden Horde, a constituent of the Mongol Empire.

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Bavand dynasty

The Bavand dynasty (also spelled Bavend), or simply the Bavandids, was an Iranian dynasty that ruled in parts of Tabaristan (present-day Mazandaran province) in what is now northern Iran from 651 until 1349, alternating between outright independence and submission as vassals to more powerful regional rulers.

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Buqa Temür

Buqa Temür (Cyrillic Mongolian: Бөхтөмөр, not to be confused with Tuka Timur, son of Djötchi, brother of Batu) was Khan of the Chagatai Khanate (1272?-1282).

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Capitulation (surrender)

Capitulation (capitulum, a little head or division; capitulare, to treat upon terms) is an agreement in time of war for the surrender to a hostile armed force of a particular body of troops, a town or a territory.

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Chagatai Khanate

The Chagatai Khanate, or Chagatai Ulus was a Mongol and later Turkicized khanate that comprised the lands ruled by Chagatai Khan, second son of Genghis Khan, and his descendants and successors.

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Chinese people

The Chinese people, or simply Chinese, are people or ethnic groups identified with China, usually through ethnicity, nationality, citizenship, or other affiliation.

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Choara (Parthia)

Choara (Latin; from Χόαρα Khóara, from Old Iranian *huṷăra- or *xṷăra-) was a town or village recorded by Greek authors, and was probably the center of the district Choarene.

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Damavand, Iran

Damavand (دماوند) is a city in the Central District of Damavand County, Tehran province, Iran, serving as capital of both the county and the district.

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Fars province

Fars province (استان فارس) is one of the 31 provinces of Iran.

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Firuzkuh

Firuzkuh (فيروزكوه) is a city in the Central District of Firuzkuh County, Tehran province, Iran, serving as capital of both the county and the district.

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Gerdkuh

Gerdkuh was a castle of the Nizari Isma'ili state located near Damghan in the region of Qumis (modern-day Semnan Province of Iran). Siege of Maymun-Diz and Gerdkuh are sieges involving the Mongol Empire.

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Golden Horde

The Golden Horde, self-designated as Ulug Ulus (in Kipchak Turkic), was originally a Mongol and later Turkicized khanate established in the 13th century and originating as the northwestern sector of the Mongol Empire.

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Guo Kan

Guo Kan (1217–1277 AD) was a Chinese general who served the Mongol Empire in their conquest of China and the West.

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History of Yuan

The History of Yuan, also known as the Yuanshi, is one of the official Chinese historical works known as the Twenty-Four Histories of China.

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Hulegu Khan

Hulegu Khan, also known as Hülegü or Hulaguᠬᠦᠯᠡᠭᠦ|lit.

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Jami' al-tawarikh

Jāmiʿ al-Tawārīkh (rtl, rtl;, also "Universal History") is a work of literature and history, produced in the Mongol Ilkhanate.

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Jarlig

A jarlig also written yarlyk, is an edict, permission, license or written commandant of Mongol and Chinggisid rulers' "formal diplomas".

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Jochi

Jochi (Mongolian:, also; –) was a Mongol army commander who was the eldest son of Temüjin (Genghis Khan), and presumably one of the four sons by his principal wife Börte, though issues concerning his paternity followed him throughout his life.

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Khitan people

The Khitan people (Khitan small script) were a historical nomadic people from Northeast Asia who, from the 4th century, inhabited an area corresponding to parts of modern Mongolia, Northeast China and the Russian Far East.

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Kingdom of Georgia

The Kingdom of Georgia (Georgian: ⴑⴀⴕⴀⴐⴇⴅⴄⴊⴍⴑ ⴑⴀⴋⴄⴔⴍ), also known as the Georgian Empire, was a medieval Eurasian monarchy that was founded in AD.

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Kitbuqa

Kitbuqa Noyan (died 1260), also spelled Kitbogha, Kitboga, or Ketbugha, was an Eastern Christian of the Naimans, a group that was subservient to the Mongol Empire.

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Lambsar Castle

Lambsar (لمبسر, also pronounced Lamsar), Lamasar, Lambasar, Lambesar (لمبه سر) or Lomasar (لمسر) was probably the largest and the most fortified of the Ismaili castles.

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Lar, Zanjan

Lar (لار, also Romanized as Lār) is a village in Bonab Rural District, in the Central District of Zanjan County, Zanjan Province, Iran.

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Last stand

A last stand is a military situation in which a body of troops holds a defensive position in the face of overwhelming and virtually insurmountable odds.

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List of Assassin strongholds

List of the strongholds or dar al-hijra of the Order of Assassins in Persia (Iran) and Syria.

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Mangonel

The mangonel, also called the traction trebuchet, was a type of trebuchet used in Ancient China starting from the Warring States period, and later across Eurasia by the 6th century AD.

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Maymun-Diz

Maymūn-Diz (میمون دز) was a major fortress of the Nizari Ismailis of the Alamut Period described in historical records. Siege of Maymun-Diz and Maymun-Diz are 1256 disestablishments in Asia.

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Mongol campaign against the Nizaris

The Mongol campaign against the Nizaris of the Alamut period (the Nizari Ismaili state) began in 1253 after the Mongol invasion of the Khwarazmian Empire and a series of Nizari–Mongol conflicts. Siege of Maymun-Diz and Mongol campaign against the Nizaris are 1256 disestablishments in Asia, 1256 in the Mongol Empire, conflicts in 1256, history of Qazvin province, sieges involving Iran and sieges involving the Mongol Empire.

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Mongol Empire

The Mongol Empire of the 13th and 14th centuries was the largest contiguous empire in history.

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Naphtha

Naphtha is a flammable liquid hydrocarbon mixture.

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Nasir al-Din al-Tusi

Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn al-Hasan al-Tusi (1201 – 1274), also known as Nasir al-Din al-Tusi (نصیر الدین الطوسی; نصیر الدین طوسی) or simply as (al-)Tusi, was a Persian polymath, architect, philosopher, physician, scientist, and theologian.

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Nizari Ismaili state

The Nizari state (the Alamut state) was a Nizari Isma'ili Shia state founded by Hassan-i Sabbah after he took control of the Alamut Castle in 1090 AD, which marked the beginning of an era of Ismailism known as the "Alamut period". Siege of Maymun-Diz and Nizari Ismaili state are 1256 disestablishments in Asia.

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Noyan

Noyan (pl. noyad), or Toyon, was a Central Asian title of authority which was used to refer to civil-military leaders of noble ancestry in the Central Asian Khanates with origins in Noyon, which was used as a title of authority in the Chagatai Khanate of the Mongol Empire.

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Oirats

Oirats (Ойрад, Oirad) or Oirds (Ойрд, Oird; Өөрд; 瓦剌, Wǎlà/Wǎlā), also formerly Eluts and Eleuths (厄魯特, Èlǔtè), are the westernmost group of the Mongols whose ancestral home is in the Altai region of Siberia, Xinjiang and western Mongolia.

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Orda (organization)

An orda (also ordu, ordo, or ordon) or horde was a historical sociopolitical and military structure found on the Eurasian Steppe, usually associated with the Turkic and Mongol peoples.

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Orda Khan

Orda Ichen (Mongolian: c. 1206 – 1251) was a Mongol Khan and military strategist who ruled the eastern part of the Golden Horde (division of the Mongol Empire) during the 13th century.

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Persian Iraq

Persian Iraq, also uncommonly spelled Persian Irak (عراقِ عجمErāq-e Ajam or عراق عجمی Erāq-e Ajami; عراق العجمʿIrāq al-ʿAjam or العراق العجمي al-ʿIrāq al-ʿAjamī, literally, "Iraq of the Ajam"), is a historical region of the western parts of Iran.

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Qazvin

Qazvin (قزوین) is a city in the Central District of Qazvin County, Qazvin province, Iran, serving as capital of the province, the county, and the district.

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Quhistan

Quhistan (قهستان) or Kohistan (کهستان, "mountainous land") was a region of medieval Persia, essentially the southern part of Khurasan.

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Rashid al-Din Hamadani

Rashīd al-Dīn Ṭabīb (رشیدالدین طبیب;&lrm; 1247–1318; also known as Rashīd al-Dīn Faḍlullāh Hamadānī, رشیدالدین فضل‌الله همدانی) was a statesman, historian and physician in Ilkhanate Iran.

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Ray, Iran

Shahre Ray, Shahr-e Ray, Shahre Rey, or Shahr-e Rey (Ŝahr-e Rey) or simply Ray or Rey (ری), is the capital of Rey County in Tehran Province, Iran.

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Rudbar County

Rudbar County (شهرستان رودبار) is in Gilan province, Iran.

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Rukn al-Din Khurshah

Rukn al-Dīn al-Hasan ibn Muhammad Khurshāh (or Khwarshāh) (ركن الدين الحسن بن محمد خورشاه) (1230–1256) was the son of ‘Alā’ ad-Dīn Muḥammad III and the 27th Isma'ili Imam.

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Semnan, Iran

Semnan (سمنان) is a city in the Central District of Semnan County, Semnan province, Iran, serving as capital of the province, the county and the district.

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Shahdiz

Dizkuh (دزکوه) or Shahdiz (شاهدز), was a fortress near Isfahan, Iran, notably held by the Nizari Ismailis.

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Shirvan

Shirvan (from translit; Şirvan; Tat: Şirvan) is a historical region in the eastern Caucasus, as known in both pre-Islamic Sasanian and Islamic times.

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Sialan

Sialan (سیالان) is a mountain peak in Alborz range in Iran.

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Siege engine

A siege engine is a device that is designed to break or circumvent heavy castle doors, thick city walls and other fortifications in siege warfare.

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Tabaristan

Tabaristan or Tabarestan (Ṭabarestān, or Tabarestun, ultimately from Middle Persian:, Tapur(i)stān), was a mountainous region located on the Caspian coast of northern Iran.

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Taleqan County

Taleqan County (شهرستان طالقان) is in Alborz province, Iran.

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Tarikh-i Jahangushay

Tārīkh-i Jahāngushāy (تاریخ جهانگشای "The History of The World Conqueror") or Tārīkh-i Jahāngushāy-i Juwaynī (تاریخ جهانگشای جوینی) is a detailed historical account written by the Persian Ata-Malik Juvayni describing the Mongol, Hulegu Khan, and Ilkhanid conquest of Persia as well as the history of Isma'ilis.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Maymun-Diz

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Siege of Maymun-Diz, the Glossary

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See also

1256 disestablishments in Asia

1256 in the Mongol Empire

Bilateral treaties of Iran

Conflicts in 1256

History of Qazvin province

Peace treaties of Iran

Sieges involving Iran

Sieges involving the Mongol Empire

References