The Gregorian Armenians had 10 boys and 3 girls schools, the protestants 7 boys and 1 girls. The commander allowed us in and we were able to see our church after so many years. (Source: W.J. 1910. In 64 BC as part of his reorganization of Asia Minor after the Third Mithridatic War, Pompey the Great founded a city on the site called "Megalopolis". The city is linked by air to Istanbul. Childs, Across Asia Minor on Foot, Edinburgh/London, 1917)6) A scene from Amasya (Source: W.J. Find all the transport options for your trip from Armenia to Sivas right here. La ville comptait 296 402 habitants au recensement de 2007. Until 1915 there functioned in the city the Armenian Hospital (հայկական Ազգային հիվանդանոցը), the Help the Poor Organization (Աղքատախնամ ընկերությունը) the orphanage, the kindergarten, and the Senekerimian, Antsnver, and Lusaper cultural organizations. Rail repair shops and a thriving manufacturing industry of rugs, bricks, cement, and cotton and woolen textiles form the mainstays of the city's economy.

Other estimates, for the time period primarily give a somewhat higher number, with McCarthy giving the figure of 182,912. Sebasteia became the capital of the province of Armenia Minor under the emperor Diocletian, was a town of some importance in the early history of the Christian Church; in the 4th century it was the home of Saint Blaise and Saint Peter of Sebaste, bishops of the town, and of Eustathius, one of the early founders of monasticism in Asia Minor. The Mavi Medrese from 1271, the Şifaiye Medresesi from 1218 and the Çifte Minare Medresesi from 1271, with its intricately carved façade and minarets, are among the most noteworthy monuments. In Sivas there was the Karasun Mangants Monastery, S Asdvadzadzin, S Sarkis, S Nshan, S Krikor Lusavorich, S Prgich, S Minas, S Hagop, S Kevork, S Vlas (Armenian Catholic), a few mosques that had been converted from Armenian churches, as well as the S Yeranos church which the Turks later converted to a mosque.

Photograph by Dildilian (Source: Nubarian Library collection)9) Marsovan/Merzifon: the students of an Armenian school with their teacher (Source: Nubarian Library collection), Captions and sources:1) The town of Tokat/Eudocia seen from the east (Source: John G. C. Anderson, A journey of exploration in Pontus, Bruxelles, 1903)2) A scene from Tokat/Eudocia (Source: Ferdinand Brockes, Quer durch Klein-Asien, Gütersloh, 1900)3) A general view of Tokat/Eudocia (Source: W.J. Standing, second (from left): Mihran Toumajan. Similar places exist in other military zones. Deputy Gov. ", Read more: http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/culture/2013/12/turkey-army-return-church-armenian-military-base.html, Turkish army to return Armenian church located on base, http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/culture/2013/12/turkey-army-return-church-armenian-military-base.html, http://www.armeniapedia.org/index.php?title=Sivas&oldid=50516, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. Series, "İl ve İlçelerimize Ait İstatistiki Veriler- Meteoroloji Genel Müdürlüğü", "Weather Averages for Sivas, Turkey Climate ]", http://www.myweather2.com/City-Town/Turkey/Sivas/climate-profile.aspx, "Madımak oteli Bilim ve Kültür Merkezi oldu", "National Commission for Decentralised cooperation", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sivas&oldid=980001079, Articles with Turkish-language sources (tr), Short description is different from Wikidata, Articles containing Armenian-language text, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, Source 1: Devlet Meteoroloji İşleri Genel Müdürlüğü, Çifte Minareli Madrasah (Double Minaret Madrasah), This page was last edited on 24 September 2020, at 01:16. The city is also famous for its Medreses (Islamic seminaries). He promised them that he would try to expedite the return of the property after restoration was completed. They worked in commerce, grain production, the production of cigarettes, and animal husbandry. On 2 July 1993, 37 participants in an Alevi cultural and literary festival were killed when a mob of demonstrators set fire to the Madimak hotel in Sivas during a violent protest by some 15,000 members of various radical Islamist groups against the presence of Aziz Nesin. Ayhan, who is coordinating the restoration work, said the church will be removed from the guarded military zone. This page was last edited on 15 October 2018, at 05:21. Ville du nord-est de la Cappadoce et autrefois située en Arménie occidentale, construite dans la vallée du Kızılırmak, Sivas est située sur la route ouest-est entre Charsianon et Colonée, à la jonction avec une route nord-sud menant à Malatya. The post-mortem photograph of Mahdesi Avedis Toumajan (in the center of the photograph, seated on the chair). Football is the most popular sport: in the older districts above the city center children often kick balls around in the evenings in the smallest streets. Anatolia College orchestra. Standing (from left): Mania Didizian, Dikranuhie Didizian (née Nahabedian), Setrag Didizian, Hagop Haig Didizian. Cilt 3. It is good fortune that the church was inside a military zone. [8] Numismatic evidence suggests that Megalopolis changed its name in the last years of the 1st century BC to "Sebaste", which is the feminine form of the Greek name corresponding to Augustus. Mechitar von Sebaste, Wien, 1929), Sivas/Sepasdia, 1898. For many years, we were not allowed to go near it. Gürün.