Şehirkışla

Şehirkışla lies southwest of Sivas on the open uplands of central Anatolia. The district came under the Danishmendids and then the Seljuks after Turkish powers established themselves in the region. Under Ottoman rule villages grew among the fields and pastures, and the town's great mosque was built in 1669. Its older name, Şehirkışla, survived in written records alongside the form Şarkışla.