🏛️ Tavium-Sebasteia
Ruined Roman city in central Anatolia
📌 Fast Facts
- Located near Sivas in central Turkey at approximately 1,200 metres elevation
- Founded as Tavium, renamed Sebasteia under Roman rule in the 1st century CE
- Served as a major military and administrative hub for the Pontic region
- Remains largely unexcavated; scattered surface ruins visible across the site
Tavium-Sebasteia was an important urban centre in the Roman province of Pontus et Bithynia, situated on the plateau ...