Sivas, which has been an important administrative centre in every period of history, has been the strategic fortress of the Hittites, the capital of Kadı Burhâneddin, Danişment, Eretna Principality, the Darü'l A'la of the Seljuk State, the provincial centre of the Ottoman Empire, and the home of unity and stability of Anatolia where the foundations of the Republic were laid.
Sivas, which was the ‘safest town’ for those who organised the Sivas Congress in order to liberate our country from enemy occupation, was the capital of our National Struggle for 108 days and hosted the Great Leader Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and his comrades-in-arms. The first organisational activity covering the whole of the people was carried out in our province, and the Sivas Congress functioned as a national assembly in terms of its form and content.
The city square, which contains Seljuk, Ottoman and Republican period artefacts together, Divriği Great Mosque and Darüşşifa, the handicraft of Anatolia, which was included in the ‘World Cultural Heritage’ list by UNESCO in 1987, where Hz. Mevlana was also treated, the ancient city of Sarissa, which has the largest Hittite temples in the world, where the famous Kadesh Treaty of the Hittites and Egyptians was written into text, where a war turned into peace, are important historical and cultural treasures of Sivas.