SIROHI, an Indian state in the Rajputana agency. Area 1,958 sq.m. The country is much broken up by hills and rocky ranges; the Aravalli range traverses it from north-east to south-west. The south and south-east part of the territory is mountainous and rugged, containing the lofty Mount Abu. The only river of any importance is the Western Banas. A large portion of the state is covered with dense jungle, in which wild animals, including the tiger, bear and leopard, abound. Many splendid ruins bear witness to the former prosperity and civilization of the country. On Abu the average annual rainfall is about 64 in., whereas in Erin pura, less than 5o m. to the north, the average fall is only between 12 and 13 in. Pop. .(1931) 216,528.
In 1823 a treaty was concluded with the British government. For services rendered in 1857 the chief received a remission of half his tribute. The chief, whose title is maharao, is a Deora Rajput of the Chauhan clan, and enjoys a salute of 15 guns.
The town of SIROHI is 28 m. N. of Abu-road station. Pop. (1930 7,463. It has manufactures of sword-blades and other weapons.
SIS or Kozan (anc. Sision or Siskia, later Flaviopolis or Flavias), a kaza in the Adana vilayet of Asiatic Turkey, situated on the left bank of the Kirkgen Su, a tributary of the Jihun (Pyramus) and at the south end of a group of passes leading from the Anti-Taurus valleys to the Cilician plain and Adana. It was besieged by the Arabs in 704 but relieved by the Byzantines. The Caliph, Motawakkil took it and refortified it; but it soon returned to Byzantine hands. It was rebuilt in 1186 by Leo II., king of Lesser Armenia, who made it his capital. In 1374 it was taken and demolished by the sultan of Egypt, and it has never recovered its prosperity. It is now only a big village of some
3,00o inhabitants. It has had, however, a great place in Armenian ecclesiastical history from the times of St. Gregory the Illumi nator to our own. Gregory himself was there consecrated the first Catholicus in A.D. 267, but transferred his see to Vagarshabad (Echmiadzin, Etchmiadzin), whence, after the fall of the Arsacids, it passed to Tovin. After the constitution of the kingdom of Lesser Armenia, the catholicate returned to Sis (1294), the capital, and remained there 15o years. In 1441, Sis having fallen from its high estate, the Armenian clergy proposed to remove the see, and on the refusal of the actual Catholicus, Gregory IX., installed a rival at Echmiadzin, who, as soon as Selim I. had conquered Greater Armenia, became the more widely accepted of the two by the Armenian church in the Ottoman empire. The Catholicus of Sis maintained himself nevertheless, and was supported in his pretensions by the Porte up to the middle of the 19th century, when the patriarch Nerses, declaring finally for Echmiadzin, carried the government with him. In 1885 Sis tried to declare Echmiadzin schismatic, and in 1895 its clergy took it on them selves to elect a Catholicus without reference to the patriarch; but the Porte annulled the election, and only allowed it six years later, on Sis renouncing its pretensions to independence. The lofty castle and the monastery and church built by Leo II., and containing the coronation chair of the kings of Lesser Armenia, are interesting. (D. G. H.)