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