Yildizeli

Yildizeli is a town and a district of Sivas Province of Turkey. The mayor is Yilmaz Navruz. Yildizeli has a broad and colorful history and culture. Various social communities reside in Yildizeli, such as Alevis, Turkmens, Circassians, Kurds etc. The district has a lot of touristic places as well as hot springs which are claimed to be curative for some diseases.

Yildizeli has been identified as the site of the town of Phiara which, according to Ptolemy, was located in the district of Sargarausena in Cappadocia. Cappadocia is a historical region in Central Anatolia, largely in the Nevsehir, Kayseri, Kirsehir, Aksaray, and Nigde Provinces in Turkey. According to Herodotus, in the time of the Ionian Revolt, the Cappadocians were reported as occupying a region from Mount Taurus to the vicinity of the Euxine.

Cappadocia, in this sense, was bounded in the south by the chain of the Taurus Mountains that separate it from Cilicia, to the east by the upper Euphrates, to the north by Pontus, and to the west by Lycaonia and eastern Galatia. The name, traditionally used in Christian sources throughout history, continues in use as an international tourism concept to define a region of exceptional natural wonders, in particular characterized by fairy chimneys and a unique historical and cultural heritage.