Sivas, a city of Asiatic Turkey, is situated on the Kizil Irmak (anc. Halys), 170 miles SW. of
Trebizond, and is a dirty, decayed place. Pop. 15,000, of whom about 3000 are Armenians, the rest Turks. It is built on the site of the ancient Sebasteia, from which it derives its name.