Talk:Sivas

message: I put the contradict tag as well, because there seems to be a weird jump from Hitite to Greek. If it were a very similar Hitite name, how did it derive from the similar Greek word? I suppose the Greek name derived from the Hitite one as well. So does anyone have sources for this?
:I didn't get the point. Why the title of this article is "Sivas, Turkey" rather than simply "Sivas"? Saygılarımla, Deliogul 22:00, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It is Wikipedia policy that exceptional claims require exceptional sources, and this one does not have so much as third-rate web citation. Somebody needs to find a credible source for this assertion and remove those weasel words. Why is it so hard to admit that the most likely derivation of Sivas is Sebasteia? Aramgar (talk) 04:39, 27 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Hittite etymology

message: First I expanded the Sights section and added some of the most popular places in the city there. Then I made a research about the origin of the name "Sivas" but I saw that, nearly all of the city names in Turkey have a meaning or a background, the name "Sivas" seems to has no historical connection. Rather than simply erasing the Hittite and Greek origin claims, I decided to sum them up in a section and showed them as "claims". I also added two new images to the article. I hope I could improve the article. My ancestors were from Sivas so I think I completed my duty. Saygılarımla, Deliogul 16:09, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I think you are sadly sided about Sivas. It is my homeland, my history and I'm not Kurdish. My ancestors, Seljuks and Ottomans, built great places in the city to put their signature on it. I don't want to make it a clash between people from different origins but I can simply create a counter argument against your Kurdistan claim. Anatolia, therefore Sivas and other 80 cities, is in the borders of Turkeli (the lands of Turks) and the maps of Turan have proved that Sivas is a Turkish city. You see, you are not scientific at all and you are not helping the situation by calling me an occupant in the city of Sivas. I hope Turks and Kurds can unite as the citizens of Turkey to rise together in Sivas and in other places. Deliogul 19:12, 29 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  About my efforts on the article 

message: Something is wrong with this phrase: ... until the city was conquered by the Turkmen Danishmend dynasty (1155–1192) after the Battle of Manzikert in 1071.
The dates 1155 and 1192 have nothing to do with Sivas or Danishmends. But these dates maybe the throning and dethroning dates of Seljuk sultan Kilij Arslan II. The editor must be more specific. Nedim Ardoğa (talk) 10:43, 16 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Two dates in history section 

message: Timur played a cruel trick on the city elders. He told them that not a single drop any defenders' blood or those who defied him would be spilt if the city surrendered. With that news, the city duely capitulated. Timur then had the 4,000 Christian Armenian troops among the Ottoman Army buried alive. The city's Christian population were bound and drowned in the city moat, and children were trampled to death by charging horsemen.
References ,  and .  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.148.206.134 (talk) 15:48, 17 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Needs more expansion regarding the destruction of the city under [[Timur]] 

message: Everyone says: The name "Sivas" is the Turkish version deriving from the name Sebasteia. / but maybe the name of Sivas was "Swassa" (at the time of Hittites!)Böri (talk) 12:55, 20 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  theory 

message: Is this a tourist guide? The massacre must be mentioned, I am writing it up and will maintain it. Hocu (talk) 07:20, 2 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Madımak Massacre 

message: Postal code in Sivas is 58000, Area code in Sivas is +90 346 (talk) 10:01, 5 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Postal cord and erea code in Sivas 

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message: Basic information to add to this article:  what is the demographic breakdown of the population of Sivas today, and how many Armenian people live there? 173.88.246.138 (talk) 06:59, 5 July 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: To add to article

message: Why? Just why? Why aren’t there Turkish alternative names of Greek and Armenian cities in their respective countries? 2A02:A466:AEAD:1:70CE:C666:33DF:CE57 (talk) 20:48, 25 May 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: It was historically named for a Grecian emperor ("The name of the city is a truncated form of its Byzantine Greek name Sivasteia from the Koine Greek name Sebasteia (Σεβαστεία), meaning that it was named in honour of an emperor using the title Sebastos, the Greek equivalent of Augustus") and historically has been full of Armenians. This is all in this article, if you'd like to research further. NekoKatsun (nyaa) 20:53, 25 May 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why are there Armenian and Greek alternatives for a city whose population is 90% Turkish?