Since 1400: Shi'ite rulers of Persia start persecuting the Ismailite minority. The Assassins fight back, but have lost their edge. 1402: Rum-Seljuks make an alliance with the Barbary pirates of North Africa. Their first combined strike goes against Genoa, which loses its islands in the Aegaean Sea. 1406: Rum-Seljuks try to conquer Montenegro and are surprisingly beaten back by the Montenegrins. 1409/10: Rum-Seljuks conquer the Peloponnes, plus the Venetian islands in the Aegaean Sea. A bit later, the Ionian islands also fall. 1426: King Ferran of Aragon takes Oran for Christianity.