ABSTRACT
A clue is supplied by a site which in the late thirteenth and early fourteenth century has been more than a small town, but in that period nevertheless very likely lay on the Ayas–Sivas track. A principal city of the Seljuk sultanate, Sivas remained the capital of the governors of Rum once the Seljuk sultanate had disappeared. The central area of the city was composed of the complex of public and mainly religious buildings in the sultan’s garden, somewhat west of the geometrical centre, and the principal commercial area, which precisely did The walls on the northeast were somewhat shorter, which meant that the basic rectangle of the city’s walls was somewhat funnelled out from the northeast towards the southwest. The citadel was a small square enclosure on a bluff at the city’s east corner, exactly where the northeast wall made contact with the coast.
