Selçikler
town municipality in Sivaslı, Uşak Province, Turkey
Selçikler is a town (belde) in the Sivaslı District, Uşak Province, Turkey. Its population is 1,744 (2022). It is 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) west of Sivaslı. The distance to Uşak is about 36 kilometres (22 mi). Selçikler was founded on a hill. During archaeological research carried on between 1966-1978 the hill was found to be a tumulus inhabited during the ancient ages. During the Byzantine Empire the settlement was the town of Sebaste.
“Selçikler” enters the record as town municipality in Sivaslı, Uşak Province, Turkey. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Selçikler, town and municipality can confirm, complicate or overturn.
Why this record matters
“Selçikler” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Selçikler, town and municipality provides the most credible route into that argument.
Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 19, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6578047. Authority coordinates are 38.496, 29.655. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2022, 1966 and 1978.
Modern boundaries and familiar names can conceal earlier jurisdictions or structures that do not align with the present site. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.
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This entry incorporates text from “Selçikler” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.