Sivas

Sivas is a town of Turkey, Préfecture of the province of the same name. The city counted 251.776 inhabitants with the census of 2000.

History

The Congress of Sivas which threw the foundations of the Turkish Republic, was held to with it the September 4th 1919

The July 2nd 1993, the Hôtel Madımak which accommodated a cultural conference alévie was burnt at the time of a demonstration carried out by fundamentalist sunnites, which also destroyed a statue of Atatürk. The fury of crowd had been started by the presence of the writer Aziz Nesin, translator in Turkish of the satanic Versets of Salman Rushdie and known for its atheism. In the fire 36 Turks perished, mainly of the intellectuals alévis marked on the left, of which the Aşık Muhlis Akarsu, and a Dutch anthropologist.

Subdivisions

The province is divided into 17 Turkish districts (: ilçe, in the singular): Sivas | Akıncılar | Altınyayla | Divriği | Doğanşar | Gemerek | Gölova | Gürün | Hafik | İmranlı | Kangal | Koyulhisar | Suşehri | Şarkışla | Ulaş | Yıldızeli | Zara

External bonds

  • Official site of the municipality of Sivas
  • Official site of the prefecture of Sivas
  • Sivas (Turkish)
  • Sivas

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