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ZENJAN, or ZANJAN

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 970 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ZENJAN, or ZANJAN , a See also:town of See also:Persia, See also:capital of the See also:Khamseh See also:province, about 205 M. N.W. of See also:Teheran, on the high road thence to See also:Tabriz, at an See also:elevation of 518o ft. It has a See also:population of about 2,000 and See also:post and See also:telegraph offices, and was one of the See also:original strongholds of the Babf sectarians, who held it against a large See also:Persian force from May 185o to the end of the See also:year, when most of them were massacred. It has extensive gardens, well watered by the Zanjaneh See also:river, which flows See also:south of it. The well-stocked See also:bazaar supplies the neighbouring districts.

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