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Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA province in central Turkey. · A district of Sivas Province, Turkey. · A municipality, the capital of Sivas district and Sivas Province, Turkey; formerly, Sebastia. · A former eyalet of the Ottoman Empire.
From Turkish Sivas and Ottoman Turkish سیواس (Sivas), from Medieval 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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