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See also:SIVAS (anc. See also:Megalopolis-Sebasteia) , See also:altitude 4420 ft., is also the name of the See also:chief See also:town of the vilayet (and of a sanjak of the same name). It is situated in the broad valley of the Kizil Irmak, on one of its right See also:bank tributaries, the Murdan Su. Pop. over 43,000, fully two-thirds Mussulman. The See also:climate is healthy but severe in See also:winter. Coarse See also:cotton See also:cloth and woollen socks are manufactured. The medresses (colleges), built in the 13th See also:century by the Seljuk sultans of See also:Rum, are amongst the finest remains of Moslem See also:art in See also:Asia See also:Minor. In one of them is the See also:tomb of its founder, Izz ud-din Kai Kaus I. (1210-1219). Near the town is the Armenian monastery of the See also:Holy See also:Cross, in which are kept the See also:throne of Senekherim and other See also:relics. There are several Armenian churches of See also:interest, a flourishing See also:American See also:mission with See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church and See also:schools, and a Jesuit mission. Under See also:Diocletian Sebasteia became the See also:capital of See also:Armenia Minor, and in the 7th century that of the Sebasteia Theme. Justinian rebuilt the walls and, under the See also:Byzantine emperors, it was second only to Caesarea in See also:size and See also:wealth. In 1021 Senekherim, See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king of the Armenian See also:province of Vaspuragan (See also:Van), ceded his dominions to See also:Basil II., and became the Byzantine See also:viceroy of Sebasteia and the surrounding See also:country. This position was held by his successors until the town See also:fell into the hands of the Turkomans after the defeat of See also:Romanus II. by the See also:Seljuks (1071). After having been ruled for nearly a century by the Danishmand amirs, it was taken (1172) by the Seljuk See also:sultan of Rum, and in 1224 was rebuilt by Sultan See also:Ala-ed-din Kaikobad I. In 1400, when captured by Timur, the See also:city is said to have had 100,000 inhabitants, and to have been famous for its woollen stuffs. On this occasion the bravest defenders were massacred, and 4000 Armenians were buried alive. Mahommed the " Conqueror " restored the citadel, and the See also:place has ever since been an import-See also:- ANT
- ANT (O. Eng. aemete, from Teutonic a, privative, and maitan, cut or bite off, i.e. " the biter off "; aemete in Middle English became differentiated in dialect use to (mete, then amte, and so ant, and also to emete, whence the synonym " emmet," now only u
ant See also:Ottoman provincial capital. See also:Early in the 19th century, like all other Ottoman towns, it was terrorized by See also:janissaries, with whom Mahmud II. commissioned the See also:great Dere See also:Bey of See also:Yuzgat, Chapan Oglu, to See also:deal in 1818. The See also:news of his drastic success provoked a dangerous See also:riot in Stambul, which postponed by some years the final tragedy of the janissaries. From 188o to 1882 Sivas was the See also:residence of the See also:British military See also:consul-See also:general for Asia Minor; but it has now only an American See also:vice-consulate. AIechithar, the founder of the See also:Mechitharists (q.v.) and of the famous monastery at See also:Venice, was See also:born (1676) at Sivas.
(C. W. W., D. G.
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