He was born in the Han village of Sivas as the third child of Süleyman and Hacıhanım Gültekin.
He was in command of the Sivas fort during the Timurid invasion of Anatolia and defended it with 3000 soldiers against Timur's 200,000 men for 18 days.
In 1928 he was elected as member of national parliament from Sivas province .
While he was only two years old, his father died in exile in Sivas.
Sivas, a city in Turkey which first appears in history as Sebasteia
The river is 560 km and flows southwest from its headwaters in the Tahtalı-Mountains (provinces Sivas and Kayseri) in Anti-Taurus Mountains to the Mediterranean Sea via a broad delta.
Aksu Deresi rises in Karagöl, a rural highland area located very near to provincial borders of Giresun, Ordu and Sivas provinces.
Smallpox was prevalent throughout the Ottoman region that included Sivas in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Meanwhile, he begin the reunification of the Turkish Anatolia, conquering the beyliks of Aydin, Saruhan in 1390, the beyliks of Mentese, Germiyan and Kastamonu in 1391; and finally the great emirate of Karaman and the ex-emirate of Burhan-ad-Din in Tokat, Sivas and Kayseri(1397–98).
In the years 1911-1915 he served as Italian Consul in the provinces of Trabzon, Erzurum, Van, Bitlis, and Sivas.
Kuzyaka, Kangal, a village in the district of Kangal, Sivas Province
The last three Sivas, together with Kapalamocana and Goddess Ardhasini, act as the day and night guardians of the town, Nilakantha is the governor of the kshetra, Narasimha protects the places where the fire ceremony is performed.
Şahin was dubbed as 'Sivaslı Cindy' or 'Cindy from Sivas' because of her close resemblance to Cindy Crawford and Sivas being her hometown.
Well known weaving cities, towns, and districts include (but are not limited to): Uşak, Bergama, Milas, Hereke, Konya, Nevşehir, Nigde, Antalya, Çanakkale, Kars, Kayseri, Malatya, Siirt, Taşpınar, Sivas, Yahyali, Izmir, Gaziantep Manisa, Ladik and the Van Province.
The exhibition of documents, photographs and artefacts in this room relate to the Armistice of Mudros, Mustafa Kemal’s arrival in Samsun, the Amasya Circular, the Sivas and Erzurum Congresses, and the Misak-ı Millî, and include the seal used at the Erzurum Congress.