•Laz peoples, Muslim
Georgians, Armenians,
•
•Mesudiye : Greek Mesoudie, ancient rock tombs,
used to be Milas,, later Hamidiye in 1876, then Mesoudiye in 1908. later Greek
name was Meletios from the Melanthios river
•Used to be a mostly
Greek town
•
•Pompeiopolis : near Taskopru founded by Pompey in
65 BC on the left bank of river
•Pompey eradicated the
pirates from the Mediterranean coast, then war on Mithridates and defeated him,
then founded 7 towns with his veterans the first inhabitants
Sivas (Sebasteia)
•large deposits of
iron at Divrigi
•Megalopolis founded
by Pompey the Great, changed name end of 1st cent. to Sebasteia in honor of Augustus
•Home of St. Blaise & St. Peter of Sebaste, Eustathius, founder of
monasticism in Anatolia, the place of martyrdom of the 40 Martyrs of Sebaste of the 4th
cent.
•Thermal springs
•Many prominent
Armenians born here
•The Sivas massacre : Alevi
•Yildizeli : Alevis, Circassians, hot springs
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