Hafik

Hafik lies east of Sivas in the upper Kızılırmak valley, among hills, lakes and pasture. Its position on the road toward Zara made it an outlying stronghold for rulers based at Sivas. After the Mongol victory at Köse Dağ in 1243 the wider district fell under Mongol influence; it later belonged to the Eretnid principality and to the state of Kadı Burhaneddin in the fourteenth century.