Sivrihisar

Sivrihisar is an attractive old town in Western Anatolia. It's at an elevation of 1070 m, below a craggy granite ridge, hence the town's name: "sharp, pointed fortress". In 2022 the population of the municipality of Sivrihisar was 20,087.
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  • Type: Town with 20,100 residents
  • Description: district of Eskişehir, west-central Turkey
  • Also known as: “Justinianapolis” and “Sivrihisar district”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Grand Mosque of Sivrihisar.

Mosque
Photo: Dosseman, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Sivrihisar Grand Mosque is a historical mosque in Sivrihisar, . The mosque is located in Sivrihisar ilçe of . It was built by Leşker Emir Celaleddin Ali in 1231–1232 during the reign of Anatolian Seljuk Sultan Kayqubad I.

Sivrihisar

Latitude
39.451° or 39° 27′ 4″ north
Longitude
31.5368° or 31° 32′ 13″ east
Population
20,100
Elevation
1,090 metres (3,576 feet)
United Nations Location Code
TR SVR
Open location code
8GFHFG2P+CP
Open­Street­Map ID
node 92233894
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
300593
Wiki­data ID
Q1019915
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Mari—“Sivrihisar” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “سوري حصار”
  • Arabic: “سِوْرِي حِصَار”
  • Arabic: “سيوري حصار”
  • Armenian: “Սիվրիհիսար”
  • Asturian: “Sivrihisar (distritu)”
  • Asturian: “Sivrihisar”
  • Azerbaijani: “Sivrihisar”
  • Catalan: “Sivri Hisar”
  • Catalan: “Sivrihisar”
  • Cebuano: “Sivrihisar (kapital sa distrito)”
  • Cebuano: “Sivrihisar İlçesi”
  • Chechen: “СиврихӀисар”
  • Chinese: “Sivrihisar”
  • Chinese: “錫夫里希薩爾”
  • Chinese: “锡夫里希萨尔”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Sivrihisar”
  • Dutch: “Sivrihisar”
  • French: “Sivrihisar”
  • Gagauz: “Sivrihisar”
  • German: “Sivrihisar”
  • Gilaki: “سيوري‌حيصار”
  • Hungarian: “Sivrihisar”
  • Irish: “Sivrihisar”
  • Italian: “Distretto di Sivrihisar”
  • Japanese: “シウリヒサル”
  • Japanese: “シブリヒサール”
  • Japanese: “スィヴリヒサール”
  • Japanese: “スィヴリヒサル”
  • Lithuanian: “Sivrichisaras”
  • Malay: “Sivrihisar”
  • Mazanderani: “سیوری‌حصار”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Sivrihisar”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Sivrihisar”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sivrihisar”
  • Norwegian: “Sivrihisar”
  • Persian: “سیوری حصار”
  • Persian: “سیوری‌حصار”
  • Russian: “Сиврихисар”
  • Serbian: “Сиврихисар”
  • Spanish: “Sivrihisar”
  • Swahili: “Sivrihisar”
  • Tatar: “Сиврихисар”
  • Turkish: “Sivrihisar”
  • Urdu: “سیوری حصار”
  • Vietnamese: “Sivrihisar”
  • Western Armenian: “Սիվրիհիսար”
  • Western Mari: “Сиврихисар”
  • “Sivrihisar ilçesi”

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