Sivas

Sivas is a city in , with a population in 2020 of 335,570. I's 450 km east of Ankara, and stands at 1,278 m elevation. It's industrial but has several 13th-century Seljuk buildings, and is a transport hub.
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  • Type: City with 621,000 residents
  • Description: central district and city in Sivas Province, Turkey
  • Also known as: “Megalopolis”, “Samassia”, “Samassiya”, “Sebasta”, “Sebaste”, “Sebasteia”, “Sebastiya”, “Sevas”, “Sivas City”, “Sivas Merkez”, “Siwas”, “Себастия”, “Севастия”, “סיבאס”, “سبسطية (تركيا)”, “سيفاس”, and “سيواس (تركيا)”

Places of Interest

Highlights: Great Mosque of Sivas and Sivas railway station.

Mosque
Photo: Jarekt, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The is a historic located in Sivas, Turkey.

Railway station
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is the main railway station in Sivas, .

Museum
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Sivas

Latitude
39.7504° or 39° 45′ 1″ north
Longitude
37.0145° or 37° 0′ 52″ east
Population
621,000
Elevation
1,287 metres (4,222 feet)
IATA airport code
VAS
UN/LOCODE
TR VAS
Open location code
8GFVQ227+4R
Open­Street­Map ID
node 26482940
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
300619
Wiki­data ID
Q107401
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In Other Languages

From Adyghe to Wu Chinese—“Sivas” goes by many names.
  • Adyghe: “Сивас”
  • Albanian: “Sivasi”
  • Amharic: “ሲቫስ”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Σεβάστεια”
  • Arabic: “سيواس”
  • Armenian: “Սեբաստիա”
  • Asturian: “Sivas”
  • Azerbaijani: “Sivas”
  • Basque: “Sivas”
  • Belarusian: “Сівас”
  • Belarusian: “Сывас”
  • Bengali: “শিভাস”
  • Bengali: “সিভাস”
  • Breton: “Sivas”
  • Bulgarian: “Сивас”
  • Catalan: “Sivas”
  • Cebuano: “Sivas”
  • Central Kurdish: “سێواس”
  • Chechen: “Сивас”
  • Chinese: “錫瓦斯”
  • Chinese: “锡瓦斯”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Sivas”
  • Croatian: “Sivas”
  • Czech: “Sivas”
  • Danish: “Sivas”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Sêwaz”
  • Dutch: “Sivas”
  • Esperanto: “Sivas”
  • Estonian: “Sivas”
  • Finnish: “Sivas”
  • French: “Sivas”
  • Gagauz: “Sivas”
  • Galician: “Sivas”
  • Georgian: “სივასი”
  • German: “Sivas”
  • Gilaki: “سيواس”
  • Greek: “Σεβάστεια”
  • Gujarati: “શિવાસ”
  • Hausa: “Sivas”
  • Hebrew: “סיוואס”
  • Hebrew: “סיווס”
  • Hindi: “सिवास”
  • Hungarian: “Sivas”
  • Ido: “Sivas”
  • Indonesian: “Sivas, Turki”
  • Indonesian: “Sivas”
  • Irish: “Sivas”
  • Italian: “Sivas”
  • Japanese: “スィヴァス”
  • Kannada: “ಶಿವಾಸ್”
  • Kannada: “ಸಿವಾಸ್”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Sivas”
  • Kazakh: “Сивас”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Sivas”
  • Kirghiz: “Сивас”
  • Korean: “시바스”
  • Kurdish: “Sêwas”
  • Latin: “Sebastea”
  • Latvian: “Sivasa”
  • Lithuanian: “Sivasas”
  • Low German: “Sivas”
  • Luxembourgish: “Sivas”
  • Macedonian: “Сивас”
  • Malay: “Sivas”
  • Maltese: “Sivas”
  • Marathi: “शिवास”
  • Mazanderani: “سیواس”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Sivas”
  • Minangkabau: “Sivas”
  • Moksha: “Сивас”
  • Nauru: “Sivas”
  • Northern Luri: “سیواس”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Sivas”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sivas”
  • Norwegian: “Sivas”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Sivas”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Sebastia”
  • Ossetian: “Сивас”
  • Persian: “سیواس”
  • Polish: “Sivas”
  • Portuguese: “Sivas”
  • Romanian: “Sivas”
  • Russian: “Сивас”
  • Scots: “Sivas”
  • Serbian: “Себастија” (historical)
  • Serbian: “Сивас”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Sivas”
  • Sicilian: “Sivas”
  • Sinhala: “සිවාස්”
  • Slovak: “Sivas”
  • Slovenian: “Sivas”
  • South Azerbaijani: “سیواس”
  • Spanish: “Sivas”
  • Swahili: “Sivas”
  • Swedish: “Sivas”
  • Tagalog: “Sivas”
  • Tajik: “Сивас”
  • Tajik: “Сивос”
  • Tamil: “சிவாஸ்”
  • Tatar: “Сивас”
  • Telugu: “సివాస్”
  • Thai: “ซีวัส”
  • Turkish: “Sivas”
  • Twi: “Sivas”
  • Udmurt: “Сивас”
  • Ukrainian: “Сівас”
  • Urdu: “سیواس”
  • Uzbek: “Sivas”
  • Venetian: “Sivas”
  • Vietnamese: “Sivas”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Sivas”
  • Western Armenian: “Սեբաստիա”
  • Western Mari: “Сивас”
  • Western Panjabi: “سیواس”
  • Wu Chinese: “锡瓦斯”
  • “Sivas”

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