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Sivas

name, noun

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A province in central Turkey.
  2. 2
    A district of Sivas Province, Turkey.
  3. 3
    A municipality, the capital of Sivas district and Sivas Province, Turkey; formerly, Sebastia.
  4. 4
    A former eyalet of the Ottoman Empire. historical
Noun
  1. 1
    plural of siva form-of, plural

Etymology

From Turkish Sivas and Ottoman Turkish سیواس (Sivas), from Byzantine Greek Σεβάστεια (Sebásteia), from Ancient Greek Σεβαστός (Sebastós) + -εια (-eia, “-ia: forming place names”), from σεβαστός (sebastós, “venerable, august”) used as a calque of Latin Augustus. Doublet of Sebastia.

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