TOKAT (Armenian Evtoghia, anc. Dazimon)  the chief town of a sanjak of the same name in the Sivas vilayet of Asia Minor . It is situated in the Sivas-Samsun chausee, altitude 2280 ft., at the mouth of a rocky glen which opens out to the broad valley of the Tozanli Su, a tributary of the Yeshil Irmak . It rose to importance under the Seljuks . Pop. about 30,000, two-thirds Mussulman . The industries are the manufacture of copper utensils and yellow leather, and the stamping of colours on white Manchester cotton . Near Tokat copper pyrites, with iron and manganese, kaolin and coal are found; but most of the copper worked here comes from the mines of Keban Maden and Arghana Maden, on the upper Euphrates and Tigris . (D . G .