Sivas

Sivas is a city in focal Turkey and the seat of Sivas Province. As indicated by a 2011 gauge, its urban populace is 425,297. The city, which lies at a rise of 1,278 meters in the wide valley of the Kizilirmak waterway, is a modestly measured exchange focus and modern city, despite the fact that the economy has customarily been founded on horticulture. Rail fix shops and a flourishing assembling industry of mats, blocks, bond, and cotton and woolen materials shape the backbones of the city's economy.

The encompassing locale is an oat delivering region with extensive stores of iron metal which are worked at Divrigi. Sivas is likewise an interchanges center for the north-south and east-west exchange courses to Iraq and Iran, separately. With the improvement of railroads, the city increased new monetary significance as intersection of critical rail lines connecting the urban communities of Ankara, Kayseri, Samsun, and Erzurum. The city is connected via air to Istanbul.

The famous name Sebastian gets from the Latin Sebastianus and Greek Sebastianos,meaning somebody from the city. The Sivas Congress was held in this city 4 to 11 September 1919. With the landing of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the originator of the Turkish Republic, from Amasya, the Congress of Sivas is viewed as a defining moment in the arrangement of the Turkish Republic. It was at this congress that Ataturk's situation as seat of the official panel of the national obstruction was confirmed. Sivas was delineated on the turn around of the Turkish 500 lira banknote of 1927-1939.