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Sivas Province
Sivas

Sivas

Sivas is a city in , with a population in 2020 of 335,570. By road it's 450 km east of Ankara, and stands at 1278 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: city in Sivas province, Turkey
  • Also known as: “Megalopolis”, “Sebasteia”, “Sebastia”, “Sevas”, and “Siwas”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Great Mosque of Sivas and Sivas Archaeology Museum.

Mosque
Photo: Jarekt, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The is a historic located in Sivas, Turkey. It was built in the 12th century and is the oldest surviving building in the city. Its minaret was built in the early 13th century.

Museum
Photo: Isimon49, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Railway station
Photo: Quintucket, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is the main railway station in Sivas, . Located just southwest of the city center, the station is serviced by three inter-city trains from , which continue east to , and respectively.

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
United Nations Location Code
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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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Adyghe to Wu Chinese—“Sivas” goes by many names.
  • Adyghe: “Сивас”
  • Albanian: “Sivasi”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Σεβάστεια”
  • Arabic: “سبسطية (تركيا)”
  • Arabic: “سيفاس”
  • Arabic: “سيواس (تركيا)”
  • Arabic: “سيواس”
  • Armenian: “Սեբաստիա”
  • Asturian: “Sivas”
  • Azerbaijani: “Sivas”
  • Basque: “Sebasteia”
  • Basque: “Sebastia”
  • Basque: “Sivas”
  • Belarusian: “Сівас”
  • Belarusian: “Сывас”
  • Bengali: “শিভাস”
  • Breton: “Sivas”
  • Bulgarian: “Себастия”
  • Bulgarian: “Сивас”
  • Catalan: “Sebasteia”
  • Catalan: “Sebastia”
  • Catalan: “Sivas”
  • Cebuano: “Sivas”
  • Central Kurdish: “سێواس”
  • Chechen: “Сивас”
  • Chinese: “Sivas”
  • Chinese: “錫瓦斯”
  • Chinese: “锡瓦斯”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Sivas”
  • Croatian: “Sebasteia”
  • Croatian: “Sebastia”
  • Croatian: “Sivas”
  • Czech: “Sebasteia”
  • Czech: “Sebastia”
  • Czech: “Sivas”
  • Danish: “Sivas”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Sêwaz”
  • Dutch: “Sivas”
  • Esperanto: “Sebasteia”
  • Esperanto: “Sebastia”
  • Esperanto: “Sivas”
  • Estonian: “Sebasteia”
  • Estonian: “Sebastia”
  • Estonian: “Sivas”
  • Finnish: “Sivas”
  • French: “Sebasteia”
  • French: “Sebastia”
  • French: “Sivas”
  • Gagauz: “Sivas”
  • Galician: “Sivas”
  • Georgian: “სივასი”
  • German: “Sebasteia”
  • German: “Sebastia”
  • German: “Sivas”
  • Gilaki: “سيواس”
  • Greek: “Σεβάστεια”
  • Gujarati: “શિવાસ”
  • Hebrew: “סיבאס”
  • 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”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Sivas”
  • Kazakh: “Сивас”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Sivas”
  • 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: “Sebasta”
  • Polish: “Sebasteia”
  • Polish: “Sebastia”
  • Polish: “Sivas”
  • Portuguese: “Sebaste”
  • Portuguese: “Sebasteia”
  • Portuguese: “Sebastia”
  • Portuguese: “Sivas”
  • Romanian: “Sivas”
  • Russian: “Себастия”
  • Russian: “Севастия”
  • Russian: “Сивас”
  • Scots: “Sivas”
  • Serbian: “Сивас”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Sivas”
  • Sicilian: “Sivas”
  • Sinhala: “සිවාස්”
  • Slovak: “Sivas”
  • Slovenian: “Sivas”
  • South Azerbaijani: “سیواس”
  • Spanish: “Sebasteia”
  • Spanish: “Sebastia”
  • Spanish: “Sivas”
  • Swahili: “Sivas”
  • Swedish: “Sivas”
  • Tagalog: “Sivas”
  • Tajik: “Сивас”
  • Tajik: “Сивос”
  • Tamil: “சிவாஸ்”
  • Tatar: “Сивас”
  • Telugu: “సివాస్”
  • Thai: “ซีวัส”
  • Turkish: “Samassia”
  • Turkish: “Sebasteia”
  • Turkish: “Sebastia”
  • Turkish: “Sivas Merkez”
  • 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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