سیواس

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Ottoman Turkish

Sivas province

Etymology

From Byzantine Greek Σεβάστεια (Sebásteia), from Ancient Greek σεβαστή (sebastḗ, “emperor's day”) + -εια (-eia, “-ia: forming place names”), from Σεβαστός (Sebastós) used as a calque of Latin Augustus. Doublet of سابستيه.

Proper noun

سیواس • (Sivas)

Sivas (a city in Central Anatolia, Turkey)
(historical) Sivas (an eyalet in the Ottoman Empire)

Derived terms

سیواسلو (Sivaslı, “inhabitant of Sivas”)

Descendants

Turkish: Sivas
→ English: Sivas

Further reading

Nişanyan, Sevan (2010–) “Sivas”, in Nişanyan Yeradları: Türkiye ve Çevre Ülkeler Yerleşim Birimleri Envanteri [Index Anatolicus: An inventory of place names of Turkey and surrounding countries] (in Turkish)
Redhouse, James W. (1890) “سیواس”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1104
Sezen, Tahir (2017) “Sivas”, in Osmanlı Yer Adları [Ottoman Place Names]‎, 2nd edition, Ankara: T.C. Başbakanlık Devlet Arşivleri Genel Müdürlüğü, page 690

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