MARSIVAN, or MERZIFUN (anc. Phazemon?)  , a town in the Amasia sanjak of the Sivas vilayet of Asia Minor, situated at the foot of the Tayshan Dagh . Pop. about 20,000, two-thirds Mussulman . It is a centre of American missionary and educational enterprise, and the seat of Anatolia College, a theological seminary, and schools which were partly destroyed in the anti-Armenian riots of 1893 and 1895 . There is also a Jesuit school . Marsivan is an unusually European place both in its aspect and the commodities procurable in the bazaar . MARS-LA-TOUR, a village of Lorraine, between Metz and the French frontier, which formed part of the battlefield of the 16th of August 1870 . The battle is often called the battle of Marsla-Tour, though it is more usually named after Vionville . (See Metz; and FRANCO-GERMAN WAR.) At Mars-la-Tour occurred the destruction of the German 38th brigade .