What is "sivas"

Sivas (; Latin: Sebastia, Sebastea, Sebasteia, Sebaste) is a city in central Turkey and the seat of Sivas Province. According to a 2011 estimate, its urban population is 425,297.

The city, which lies at an elevation of in the broad valley of the Kızılırmak river, is a moderately-sized trade center and industrial city, although the economy has traditionally been based on agriculture. Rail repair shops and a thriving manufacturing industry of rugs, bricks, cement, and cotton and woolen textiles form the mainstays of the city's economy. The surrounding region is a cereal-producing area with large deposits of iron ore which are worked at Divriği.

Sivas is also a communications hub for the north-south and east-west trade routes to Iraq and Iran, respectively. With the development of railways, the city gained new economic importance as junction of important rail lines linking the cities of Ankara, Kayseri, Samsun, and Erzurum. The city is linked by air to Istanbul.

The popular name Sebastian derives from the Latin Sebastianus, meaning someone from the city.

Sivas is an electoral district of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey. It elects two members of parliament (deputies) to represent the province of the same name for a four-year term by the D'Hondt method, a party-list proportional representation system.

''' Sivas is a city in Turkey. It may also refer to:

• Sivas (electoral district), Grand National Assembly of Turkey
• Sivas Province, Turkey
• Sivas Airport, Sivas, Turkey
• Sivas Congress, 1919 assembly of the Turkish National Movement
• Sivas Vilayet, Ottoman Empire
• Sivas massacre, events of July 2, 1993 against Turkish Alevi intellectuals
• Sivas (film), a 2014 Turkish film

Sivas is a 2014 Turkish drama film directed by Kaan Müjdeci. It was selected to compete for the Golden Lion at the 71st Venice International Film Festival where it won the Special Jury Prize. The film was selected as the Turkish entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 88th Academy Awards but it was not nominated.

Sivas Torbati , better known by the mononym Sivas stylized as S!VAS, is a Danish rapper of Iranian origin. He is signed to Sony Music.

He resided in Brøndby Strand famous for a number of rap and hip hop acts in Denmark. He later moved to Smørum near Tingbjerg and finally Copenhagen. His debut EP was d.a.u.d.a. released on Forbandet Ungdom, a sub-label of Disco:wax, and distributed by Sony.