CEHEGIN, a town of south-eastern Spain, in the province of Murcia, on the right bank of the river Arcos, a small tributary of the Segura. Pop. (193o) 15,043. Cehegin is the market for local wine, olive oil and hemp, and for marble and a little iron from the neighbouring hills. Some of the older houses, the parish church and the convent of San Francisco, which contains still legible Roman inscriptions, are built of stone from the ruins of Begastri, a Roman colony which stood on an adjacent hill. The name Cehegin is sometimes associated with that of the Zenaga, Senhaja or Senajeh, a North African tribe which invaded Spain in the 11th century.