Place:Zanjan, Iran

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NameZanjan
Alt namesCadusissource: Historical Atlas of Iran (1971) plate 7; Livius. Articles on ancient history [online] (2003) accessed 24 July 2003
Zanjansource: Wikipedia
Zanjānsource: Getty Vocabulary Program
Zanjān provincesource: Getty Vocabulary Program
Zenjansource: Grove Dictionary of Art online (1999-2002) accessed 24 July 2003
TypeProvince
Coordinates36.667°N 48.5°E
Located inIran
Contained Places
Deserted settlement
Takht-i Sulaiman
Inhabited place
Abhar
Khorram Daraq
Mehrābād
Qeydār
Saʿidiyeh
Soltānīyeh
Tākestān
Zanjan
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Zanjan or Zangan Province (Ostân-e Zanjân) is a Northwestern Iranian province hosting a more than a million people, largely Turkic speaking. It is a mountainous province with close to 22,000 km2 of land placed in Iran's third region. Most of the inhabitants live in the two major cities of Zanjan and Abhar. One third of the population live in rural areas.

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History

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In Ptolemy's Geography, the city is referred to as Aganzana. It is said that the Sassanid king Ardashir I of Persia, reconstructed the city and called it Shahin, but later it was renamed Zangan: the present name is the Arabicized form.

In past times Zanjan's name was Khamseh, which means "province with five tribes". Zanjan Province incorporates areas of the former Gerrus Province.

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